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Bennett, Henry W – Bentley, Charles Eugene
Bennett, Henry W
clergyman, was born April 4, 1835, in Constableville, N. Y. In 1862 he graduated from the Wesleyan university and received the highest prize in the senior class for literary work. He has filled the chair of Latin in several large institutions; has traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt and Palestine; and has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church in the northern New York conference, of which conference he was presiding elder for ten years.
Bennett, James Gordon
journalist, was born Sept. 1, 1795, in Scotland. He emigrated to the United States in 1819, and in 1835 founded the New York Herald, the first newspaper that published a daily money article and stock lists. He was its editor and proprietor for nearly forty years. He died June, 1, 1872, in New York city.
Bennett, Joseph
lawyer, state senator, was born May, 1839, in Sweden.
He studied law, and has pursued the profession in Boston. He has been on the school board in Brighton and Boston; has been a trial justice in Middlesex county, and special justice in Brighton district municipal court. In 1879 he was in the Massachusetts house of representatives, and the next year in the state senate.
Bennett, Milo Lyman
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1790 in Sharon, Conn. He practiced law in Burlington, Vt., and was judge of the supreme court in 1839-59. He was author of Vermont justice, and other legal text-books.
Bennett, Richard
lawyer, legislatorf, jurist, was born Dec. 4, 1851, in Ontario, Canada. For three years he was probate judge of Grand Forks county, N.
D.; alderman of Grand Forks city for six years; and a member of the constitutional convention of North Dakota. He now practices law in Neihart, Mont., where he is also engaged in several business enterprises.
Bennett, William Zebina
chemist, author, was born Feb. 25, 1856, in Montpelier, Vt. In 1880 he became assistant professor of chemistry, and in 1883 succeeded to the chair of natural sciences in the university of Wooster. Besides numerous contributions to scientific periodicals, he has published A Plant Analysis.
Bensel, James Berry
author, poet, was born Aug. 2, 1856, in New York city.
He was the author of In the King's Garden, and Other Poems; and King Cophetua's Wife, a novel. He died Feb. 3, 1886, in New York city.
Benson, Egbert
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 21, 1746, in New York city. He was attorney-general of New York from 1780 to 1789; a delegate to the continental congress from 1784 to 1788; and a representative in congress, from New York, from 1789 to 1793. He was a judge of the state supreme court from 1794 to 1801. He was again elected to congress in 1813. He died Aug. 24, 1833, in Jamaica, N. Y.
Benson, Henry C
clergyman, author, was born in 1815 near Xenia, Ohio. He was editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate at Portland, Ore., from 1864 to 1868, in which year he became editor of the California Advocate. For several years. he labored among the Choctaw Indians as a missionary, and he has related his experiences in a book called Life Among the Choctaws.
Bentley, Charles Eugene
clergyman, prohibitionist, was born April 30, 1841, near Syracuse, N. Y. This eminent baptist clergyman of Lincoln, Neb., has been chairman of the prohibition state committee of Nebraska, and had official charge of the great amendment campaign of 1890. He has been his party candidate for governor and United States senator, and was formally endorsed as Nebraska's choice for president in the campaign of 1896.