Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 804.

WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT, post-master at Bluffton, Indiana, is a native of that city, born July 31, 1853. He is the eldest of three sons, and one of nine children of Robert Collins and Harriet (Deam) BENNETT. When he was four years of age his parents moved to Fort Wayne, where they lived until 1872, when they returned to Bluffton. He attended the public school at Fort Wayne while there, and after his return to Bluffton attended the public school a short time, when he engaged in the restaurant business, which he continued until 1879. He then entered the employ of G. F. McFarren, remaining with him until January, 1886, when having received a commission as postmaster at Bluffton from Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, he assumed the duties of that office.