Bennett, Lemon
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Bennett, Lemon
| Celia Luce Davis (View posts) | Posted: 6 Jan 2001 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Bennett, Wright
from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record” by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 33
LEMON BENNETT, residing on section 25, Madison Township, Clarke County, Iowa, was born in Putney, Vermont, April 8, 1822, a son of Samuel BENNETT, a native of the same town, now deceased, and a grandson of Samuel, a native of Rhode Island, of English descent, his ancestors being among the early settlers of Rhode Island. His grandfather, with three of his brothers, served in the Revolutionary war, Samuel BENNETT, Sr. being the only one to return alive. Soon after the war closed he settled in Putney, Vermont. He has a family of twelve children, his son, Samuel BENNETT, having been a soldier in the war of 1812.
Our subject was reared on a farm, and received good educational advantages, attending the academy in Townsend, and the Waterville College (now Colby University) and later went to Dartmouth College, at Hanover, from which institution he graduated in 1848. He then read medicine for one year, and attended lectures at Woodstock, Vermont. He went to Tennessee in 1849, and was engaged in teaching in Fall Branch Seminary in Washington County, for twenty-one terms of five months each. He taught one term in Chattanooga, and was teaching the Rutherford Academy, at Kingsport, Tennessee, when the war broke out, and being of Union sentiments he was obliged to leave the South at a sacrifice of $4,500.
He located in Warren County, Iowa, in July, 1861, and the following winter taught school at Indianola. he then went to Des Moines, where he taught school for one year, remaining there till 1867, when he came to Clarke County. On coming to Clarke County he settled on his present farm, which he had entered in 1852. He has followed the teacherÂ’s profession in Clarke County for four terms, and also followed carpentering for four years. He is now devoting his attention to farming, stock-raising and dairying, and is now the owner of a good farm containing 160 acres of well-improved land.
Mr. Bennett was married in July, 1852, to Eleanor J. Wright, daughter of James Wright, deceased. They have had seven children, six are still living-- James S., Lemon, John F., Frances M, Mary J. and Ella M., all being married but James and Lemon. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Baptist church.
LEMON BENNETT, residing on section 25, Madison Township, Clarke County, Iowa, was born in Putney, Vermont, April 8, 1822, a son of Samuel BENNETT, a native of the same town, now deceased, and a grandson of Samuel, a native of Rhode Island, of English descent, his ancestors being among the early settlers of Rhode Island. His grandfather, with three of his brothers, served in the Revolutionary war, Samuel BENNETT, Sr. being the only one to return alive. Soon after the war closed he settled in Putney, Vermont. He has a family of twelve children, his son, Samuel BENNETT, having been a soldier in the war of 1812.
Our subject was reared on a farm, and received good educational advantages, attending the academy in Townsend, and the Waterville College (now Colby University) and later went to Dartmouth College, at Hanover, from which institution he graduated in 1848. He then read medicine for one year, and attended lectures at Woodstock, Vermont. He went to Tennessee in 1849, and was engaged in teaching in Fall Branch Seminary in Washington County, for twenty-one terms of five months each. He taught one term in Chattanooga, and was teaching the Rutherford Academy, at Kingsport, Tennessee, when the war broke out, and being of Union sentiments he was obliged to leave the South at a sacrifice of $4,500.
He located in Warren County, Iowa, in July, 1861, and the following winter taught school at Indianola. he then went to Des Moines, where he taught school for one year, remaining there till 1867, when he came to Clarke County. On coming to Clarke County he settled on his present farm, which he had entered in 1852. He has followed the teacherÂ’s profession in Clarke County for four terms, and also followed carpentering for four years. He is now devoting his attention to farming, stock-raising and dairying, and is now the owner of a good farm containing 160 acres of well-improved land.
Mr. Bennett was married in July, 1852, to Eleanor J. Wright, daughter of James Wright, deceased. They have had seven children, six are still living-- James S., Lemon, John F., Frances M, Mary J. and Ella M., all being married but James and Lemon. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Baptist church.