Carbon-Utah County UT Archives Biographies.....Bennett, Frank T. 1881 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

FRANK T. BENNETT.

    Prank T. Bennett, chief clerk in the office of the Spring Canyon Coal
Company at Storrs and also a prominent churchman, serving as bishop of the
Storrs ward, was born in Provo, Utah, August 21, 1881, a son of John B. and Mary
(Senior) Bennett.- The father was one of Utah's pioneers of 1856. driving his
own ox team across the plains, and he recrossed in 1860 when Mary Senior came
from England. They were married soon after their arrival in Utah and settled at
Payson, where they resided until 1879, when they became residents of Provo.
While at Payson they went through all the Indian troubles of the south. Mr.
Bennett was active in civic affairs and church work, and his aid and influence
were ever manifest on the side of progress and improvement. He and his wife
reared a family of twelve children, of whom Frank T. is the youngest. The mother
died May 20, 1891, while the father survived for more than a decade, passing
away in February 2, 1902. They were highly respected people of the community in
 which they made their home.

    Frank T. Bennett obtained a public school education in Provo and also
pursued a course in the Brigham Young University there. He took up the
profession of school teaching when twenty-one years of age and devoted six years
to that work. In 1913 he came to Storrs, where he secured employment in the
office of the Spring Canyon Coal Company, and through successive promotions he
has reached his present position as chief clerk.

    On the 10th of August, 1904, in Salt Lake City, Mr. Bennett was married to
Miss Elsie Ashworth, a daughter of William and Mary (Shepherd) Ashworth, who
were pioneers of Utah, the father arriving in this state as early as 1856. To
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have been born five children, namely: Erma, who was born
February 5, 1906; Pauline, born February 19, 1911; Inez May, November 22, 1913;
Carol Elsie, December 24, 1915; and Helen, January 4, 1919.

    The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and for two years Mr. Bennett filled a mission to Great
Britain. He was ordained bishop of Storrs ward in September, 1915, and has since
filled that office. His political endorsement is given the democratic party and
he was selected to represent Carbon county in the twelfth session of the state
legislature. He was a member of the Carbon county high school board from 1914
until the consolidation and was also connected with the local school board at
the same time. During the period of the great World war he served as a member of
the Carbon County Council of Defense and was chairman of the federal community
labor board. He has stood for progress and improvement in all that has to do
with the advancement and welfare of the community and never hesitates in the
performance of any duty for the benefit of commonwealth or country.


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ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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