Lacrosse-Milwaukee County WI Archives Biographies.....Benton, C. S. July 12, 1810 - 
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JUDGE C. S. BENTON, was born July 12, 1810, in Fryeburg, Oxford Co., Maine. In 
1824, was moved by his mother and brother to Herkimer Co., N. Y., and 
commenced to learn the tanner's trade. In 1830, he abandoned the business and 
commenced to study law, and, in 1835, was admitted to practice in the Court of 
Common Pleas, and, in 1836, was admitted to the Supreme Court. In 1837, was 
appointed Surrogate by Gov. Marcy. In 1842, was elected to the Twenty-eight 
Congress from the Seventeenth Congressional District; was re-elected in 1844 
to the Twenty-ninth Congress. In 1847, was Clerk of the court of Appeals, 
which place he held two terms. In 1855, he came to Milwaukee and bought a one-
third interest in the News, and edited the paper one year. In 1856, was 
appointed Register of Land in La Crosse, by President Pierce, which office he 
held until Lincoln's administration. In 1865, he moved to Galesburg, Ill., 
where he remained four years, and then returned to La Crosse. In 1873, he was 
elected County Judge in La Crosse County, and was re-elected in 1874, but did 
not serve out his term on account of ill health, but resigned in February, 
1880. Judge Benton commenced editorial work in 1832, in New York State, where 
he was editor of the Mohawk Courier and Little Falls Gazette for two years; 
was editor and correspondent for the Courier until he came West. Judge Benton 
was married in 1840 to Emeline Fuller, of Little Falls, by whom he had one 
son, who is now a member of the firm of Benton, Gove & Co., of Milwaukee. 
Judge Benton was married again in 1853, at Oswego, to Miss Elizabeth B. 
Reynolds, by whom he has had one son, who is a resident of La Crosse.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 737.
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