Bennett, Granville G – Benteen, Frederick William
Bennett, Granville G
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1833, in Butler county, Ohio. He entered upon the practice of law in 1859; and served throughout the war of the rebellion as a commissioned officer in the union army. He was elected a representative in the Iowa legislature in 1865 for two years, and to the state senate in 1867 for four years. In 1875 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Dakota; resigned in 1878 and was elected a delegate from the territory of Dakota to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.
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.
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, Hiram P
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1826, in Carthage, Maine. In 1852 he was elected to a judgeship in western Iowa. He removed to Nebraska territory in 1854, and was at once elected a member of the territorial council; in 1858 was re-elected to the Nebraska legislature, and made speaker of the house. He removed to Colorado territory in 1859, and was chosen a delegate therefrom to the thirty-seventh congress; and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. In 1867 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Colorado.
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, James Gordon
journalist, was born May 10, 1841, in New York city. He became the proprietor of The New York Herald upon the death of his father. He added to the fame of his paper by publishing in England storm-warnings transmitted from the United States; by fitting out the Jeanette polar expedition; by sending Henry M. Stanley in search of Livingstone; and by other similar enterprises. In 1883 he associated himself with John W. Mackay in forming the commercial cable company and laying a new cable between America and Europe, to compete with the combined English and French lines.
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, Risden T
was born June 18, 1840, in Anson county, N. C. He entered the confederate army as a private April 30, 1861, and rose through the several grades to the colonelcy of the fourteenth North Carolina troops. He was solicitor of Anson county in 1866-67; was a member of the legislature of North Carolina in 1872, and delegate to the constitutional convention of the state in 1875. He was judge of the superior court in 1880, and resigned to accept the nomination for congress as congressman at large from North Carolina; and was elected to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses.
Bennett, Samuel Fillmore
soldier, physician, author. For many years he practiced medicine in Richmond, Wis. He served through the civil war in the fortieth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry; and during his service compiled several popular pieces, which were sung with great enthusiasm by the boys in blue. He is the author of the popular song entitled In the Sweet By and By.
Bennett, Thomas W
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 1831, in Union county, Ind. He graduated at the Asbury university law school in 1854; was elected to the Indiana senate in 1858; entered the union army in 1861 as a captain; served through the war, and became a brigadier-general of volunteers.
He was re-elected to the Indiana senate in 1864, serving four years; and was elected mayor of Richmond, Ind., in 1869, serving two years. He was appointed governor of Idaho in 1871, serving until December, 1875, when he resigned to take his seat as a delegate from Idaho to the fortyfourth congress.
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.
Bennion, Emma
poet, was born on March 13, 1859, in Sheldon, N. Y. She is a writer of Strykersville, N. Y.; and the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Benschoten, Harvey Lee Van
lawyer, was born Jan. 27, 1863, in Sebewa, Mich. He received his education in the schools of Indiana, Michigan agricultural college, and the university of Michigan.
He is an able lawyer of Beeding, Mich., where he is city attorney, and prominent in the public affairs of his county and state.
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, Eugene
artist, author, was born in 1837 in Hyde Park, N. Y. He established his studio in Florence in 1871, and removed to Rome in 1883. Among the better known of his pictures are Cloud Towers; Strayed Maskers; Bazaar at Cairo; Study of Girl in Blue; Art and Love; Afternoon on the Lagoon; and Ariadne. Mr. Benson has been a frequent contributor to periodicals, and has published two books entitled Gaspara Stampa; the Story of Her Life, and Art and Nature in Italy.
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.
Benson, Samuel Page
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1804 in Winthrop, Maine. In 1825 he graduated from Bowdoin college; and acquired prominence as one of the leading lawyers of New England. He was elected a member of the Maine state legislature; served in the state senate; and for several years was secretary of the state of Maine. He served with distinction in the thirty-third congress, and received the re-election to the thirty-fourth, and served as chairman of the committee on naval affairs.
Bent, Silas
jurist, was born in Massachusetts. In 1813 he was appointed United States judge for the territory of Missouri. His name was given to a wellknown frontier post and military fort.
Benteen, Frederick William
army officer, was born Aug. 24, 1834, in Petersburg, Va. He served with distinction in the civil war during 1861-65; and was colonel of the United States volunteers. He has been brigadier general of the Missouri militia; and was brevetted brigadier-general of the United States army. He now resides in Atlanta, Ga.; where he takes an active part in the business and public affairs of that city.
His services in the army have made him very popular throughout the United States.