ELLIOTT C. BENSON - Biography

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This biography appears on page 635 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

ELLIOTT C. BENSON, livery stable, Burlington; born in Ohio, in 1827;
came to Wisconsin in 1839; located at Kenosha, remaining one year, then
going to Paris, he remained one year; then moved to Brighton with his
father, and took up a tract of Government land; came to Burlington in
1854. Married, in July, 1848, Miss Elizabeth Baggs, a native of England:
they have had three children -- Jane (wife of Wm. Aldrich of Spring
Prairie); Carrie (wife of E. D. Perkins) ; and Emma. Members of the
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Benson is a Republican.