JOHN E. BENNETT - Biography

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This biography appears on page 676 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JOHN E. BENNETT, farmer; P. O. Waterford; born in Waterford, Racine Co.,
Wis., Nov. 22, 1853; son of Patrick and Mary Bennett, who came to Racine
County and located on Section 36; they sold out there and moved to the
village of Waterford, and Patrick Bennett went to work at his trade,
carpenter and joiner. In 1861, he enlisted in Co. E, 19th Regt. Wis. V.
I. Mr. Bennett raised a full company and was appointed Captain, under
Col. Horace T. Saunders, of Racine; the regiment went into service in
Virginia and was in many engagements; his company was cut to pieces at
the battle of Fair Oaks; the company went into that battle with 180 men,
lost 136, and eight out of nine officers were killed. Mr. P. Bennett was
killed Oct. 27, 1864. Married Miss Mary Kelley, daughter of Thomas
Kelley of Waterford; they had five children- John E., born Nov. 22,
1853; Mary A., April 17, 1856; James, August 30, 1858; William T., Oct.
3, 1860; George A., Oct. 19, 1864. Mrs. Bennett died Jan. 17, 1875. John
E. carries on the farm. The boys are all unmarried. Their farm has
eighty acres, seventy-two under cultivation. They are members of the
Catholic Church.