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Bennett, Alfred-Silas

lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born June 10, 1854, in Dubuque, Iowa. He was school superintendent for Waco county, Oregon; in 1882 was elected a member of the Oregon state legislature; and was circuit judge in 1882-84. In 1892 he was a democratic candidate for supreme judge of Oregon, and a candidate for congress in 1896 from the second district. or.

Bennett, Caleb P

soldier, govern- He was a major in the Delaware regiment of the revolutionary army, and was engaged at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth. He was governor of Delaware from 1833 until his death. He died May 7, 1836, in Wilmington, Del.

Bennett, Cassius C

banker, state senator, was born Feb. 4, 1856, in Washington county, Vt. In 1879 he engaged in business in Portland, Ore.; and in 1883 settled in Pierre, S. D. He was elected president of the Pierre savings bank in 1887; and in 1888 was also made president of the First National bank of that city. During 1894-96 he served with distinction as a member of the South Dakota state senate.

Bennett, Charles Goodwin

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a member of the law firm of Daniels & Bennett, of New York city; was the unsuccessful republican candidate for member of the fiftythird congress; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

Bennett, Charles Wesley

clergyman, author, was born July 18, 1828, in East Bethany, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman prominent in educational matters; and was the author of National Education in Italy, France, Germany, England, and Wales, Popularly Considered; and Christian Art and Archæology of the First Six Centuries. He died in 1891.

Bennett, David S

congressman, was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.

BENNETT, DE ROBIQUE MORTIMER, author, was born Dec. 23, 1818, in Springfield, N. Y. He was a noted freethinker who was several times arrested and imprisoned on account of his extreme views. He was the author of the World's Reformers; Champions of the Church; From Behind the Bars; An Infidel Abroad; and A Truth Seeker Around the World. He died Dec. 6, 1882, in New York city.

Bennett, Edmund Hatch

lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1824 in Vermont. He is a New England jurist, and dean of the Boston university law school.

He is the author of English Law and Equity Reports; Fire Insurance Cases; and Leading Cases in Criminal Law. He has also edited many legal works of importance.

Bennett, Emerson

author, was born March 16, 1822, in Monson, Mass. He is a Philadelphia writer of sensational romances, which have been very popular. He is the author of Prairie Flower, Leni Leoti, which are perhaps the most noted of his fifty or more novels.

Bennett, Fred A

state bank examiner, was born March 1, 1869, in Worcester county, Mass. He graduated from the state university of Iowa, and now holds the high office of state bank examiner of Iowa. He is prominent in fraternal orders, and resides in Manning, Iowa.

Bennett, H. S

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 7, 1807, in Williamson county, Tenn. He began to practice law in 1830, when he removed to Mississippi, where he held the office of circuit judge for eight years. He was a representative from Mississippi to the thirty-fourth congress.

Bennett, Henry

lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 1808, in New Lisbon, N. Y. He was elected to congress as a representative from New York state in 1848, and served continuously for ten years.