C. C. Bennett Biography


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HON. C. C. BENNETT. The First National Bank of Pierre was organized in 
1883, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. Its officers were 
Col. Fred. T. Evans, now of Hot Springs, South Dakota, president, and 
W. B. Nixon, cashier. Among the incorporators were N. G. Ordway, then 
governor of Dakota Territory, and C. W. Richardson. Under this 
management the bank continued until 1 888, when new officers were 
elected. C. C. Bennett was chosen president, and Eugene Steere was made 
cashier. Mr. Steere resigned in 1890, and Mr. B. A. Cummins, of 
Montpelier, Vermont, became cashier. The bank was destroyed by fire in 
1884, and some of the records lost. The next year the present 
substantial and commodious building was erected at a cost of ten 
thousand dollars, and is one of the best buildings in the state. They 
do a general banking business, including foreign and domestic exchange, 
and their deposits amount to about two hundred thousand dollars.  

C. C. Bennett is a native of Washington county, Vermont, where he was 
born February 4, 1856, a son of Charles S. and Caroline E. (LeBarron) 
Bennett, both natives of Vermont, where the father still resides. By 
occupation he is an architect and builder. The mother died several 
years since. The family was of the old Puritan stock, and originally 
came from the southern part of the state of New Hampshire.  

In the common schools of his native state our subject received the 
rudiments of an education, and then took a course in the Goddard 
Seminary. Leaving that institution in 1879, he went to Portland, 
Oregon, where he remained for three years in the employ of a firm as 
clerk. He then went to Fargo, North Dakota, and in 1883 located in 
Pierre and engaged in the real estate and loan business, which he 
successfully conducted until 1888. At that time, he, in company with 
others, purchased a controlling interest in the First National Bank of 
Pierre, of which institution he is now the head. In addition to this he 
owns a large amount of city property, farm lands and live stock.  

In 1884 Mr. Bennett was married to Miss Helen F. Tabor, a native of 
Vermont, born in the same county as her husband. They have two sons, 
Richard T. and Raymond C. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, being a Knight Templar, and is also a member of the Knights 
of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Modern Woodmen 
of America.  

In political sentiment he is a Republican. He has served as president 
of the city council, and in 1884 was elected to the state senate. As 
chairman of the ways and means committee he exercised great influence 
for the good of his adopted state. He has been successful in his 
various enterprises, and is a man highly respected in his community and 
well known throughout the state.