- FRANKLIN BENNETT. Among the older and more venerable agriculturists
of Albany, Green
- county, Mr. BENNETT has long been conspicuous by reason of
his manly integrity, his upright character, and his life of industry
and honesty.
- Mr. BENNETT was born in the town of Charlotte, Chittenden
county, Vt., Dec. 12, 1821, a son
- of James and Fannie (HALL) BENNETT, natives of Long Island,
and of Walpole, N.H., respectively. They were the parents of
seven children, of whom only two are now living: Franklin; and
Caroline, the widow of D. B. TRAVERSE, of Eau Claire, Wis. The
father was a wheelwright when a young man, and when he became
of age enlisted as a ship carpenter on board the ship "Constitution,"and
then served in the army during the war of 1812. He located in
Vermont after the closing of the war, and married in Williston,
that State, carrying on his trade of wheelwright. In later life
he moved to Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., where he continued
work at his trade. There he died at the age of seventy-six, his
wife dying three years before, at the age of sixty-three. She
was a Methodist. The father of James BENNETT was a native of
New York, of English, Irish and Scotch descent, and was a carriage
maker by trade; he was the father of three children, and died
in advanced years. Elisha HALL, the father of Fannie HALL mentioned
above, was a farmer in his native State, New Hampshire, where
he reared a large family, and died when old.
- Franklin BENNETT was about twelve years old when his parents
moved into New York. He
- grew to manhood and received his schooling in Canton. In
1847 Mr. BENNETT came west to Beloit. He had a small farm of
about forty acres near Belvidere, Boone Co., Ill., where he lived
ten years. He sold that at the expiration of this period, and
moved to Wisconsin.
- Mr. BENNETT married Miss Sarah ROUNDS, daughter of Brinton
ROUNDS, in 1837. Seven
- children were born to this union, three of whom are now living,
-- Ann, Emma and James. Ann married George BENNETT(deceased),
and had four children, two of whom are living, Rev. Harry (a
preacher in the Christian Church), and Bertha (a teacher); Mrs.
Ann BENNETT now lives in Monroe. Emma married Edward BACON, and
lives two miles south of Monroe; they were the parents of five
children, four of whom are still living, Don, Bert, Ralph and
Orrin. James married and lives at Altoona, Wis. Mrs. Sarah (ROUNDS)
BENNETT died in Illinois in 1856. Mr. BENNETT was married Jan.
29, 1859, to Mrs. Eliza EDWARDS, widow of Ansel EDWARDS, and
daughter of David MILLER. There were no children by the second
marriage. Mr. and Mrs. BENNETT belong to the Methodist Church.
- Mr. BENNETT enlisted in August, 1862, in Company F, 31st
Wis. V.I., and served three years.
- He participated in the battles of Atlanta and Bentonville,
and in many skirmishes, and was on the celebrated march of Gen.
Sherman to the sea. Mr. BENNETT returned to his farm in Green
county when the war was over, and continued on it until 1880.
That year he sold his farm and moved into Albany, where he built
a good home, and for a time followed the work of a mason. Lately
his advanced age has necessitated a quiet life, and for several
years he has lived retired. Mr. BENNETT was a Whig in early life,
and on the dissolution of that party joined the Republican party,
but at the present time he is a Prohibitionist. He is the senior
vice-commander of Erastus Hoyt Post, No. 69, G.A.R., and is highly
respected by all the old comrades. His present wife was an early
settler of Green county, and her parents were native of New York.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 858.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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