Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Bennett, Millard 1853 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

MILLARD BENNETT, auditor of Lincoln county, is a native of Allegany county, N.
Y., and was born June 5, 1853. His father and mother, Daniel and Sylvia (Hatch)
Bennet were natives of of England and New York state respectively, and the
former is now a resident of Plano, Ill., where he is spending the evening of a
useful life.

   Millard was reared in the place of his nativity and given during his life the
advantages of a liberal education. After he had mastered the rudiments of
learning in the common schools he subsequently became a student at Pike
seminary, Wyoming county, N. Y. Until he had attained the age of twenty years he
continued to make his home in the Empire State, a member of the parental
household, and then he struck out for himself. He located first in Kane county,
Ill., where he secured employment at teaching for a year, and then in March,
1874, he came to Dakota territory and homesteaded a farm in Lincoln county. He
did not stay here long at that time, but the following autumn returned to
Illinois and resumed teaching in Kane and Kendall counties until the spring of
1881, at that time coming to Lincoln county and locating here permanently. He
now owns 560 acres in Grant township and always devoted his attention to the
farming business since being a resident of the county until, the spring of 1895,
when he assumed the duties of county auditor, to which responsible position he
had been elected the fall of the previous year on the Republican ticket. He is'
a keen observer and a man who keeps well abreast of the times, always being in
full sympathy with and a stanch supporter of any feasible scheme that will tend
to enhance the public welfare. While a resident of Grant township he held many
of the offices in the gift of his fellow townsmen, among them being township
clerk and assessor. He has always taken much interest in local affairs and is
one of the prominent and rising citizens of the county.

   Our subject was united in marriage March 17, 1879, in Aurora, Ill., to Miss
Mary E. Davis, who is a native of De Kalb county, that state. Their household,,
is completed by six children on whom have been bestowed the following names:
Ethel, Claude, Wynn, Lyle, Mabel and Bonnie. Mr. Bennett is in all respects an
upright, straightforward man, sincere and conscientious in all his dealings, and
no one can bring aught against his character, or can impeach his standing, which
is of the highest in this community where he is well known and respected.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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