- DR. CLAY W. BENNETT, a rising young member of the dental
profession at Monroe, Wis.,
- belongs to one of the more notable families of Green county,
and is himself no unworthy representative of its better characteristics.
He is well versed both in the theory and practice of the calling
which he has made his life work, and is determined to keep to
the front. He is a genial and social gentleman with many friends,
and enjoys an enviable reputation for probity and fair dealing.
- Dr. BENNETT is a native of Green county, born July 9, 1865,
a son of Felix and Catharine
- (BELL) BENNETT, whose personal and family history has been
written up under the name of Felix C. BENNETT. They are classed
among the leading people of Monroe, and are active workers in
all social, humanitarian and reform movements that address the
better impulses and convictions of the world. Dr. BENNETT has
one living sister, Estella, who married George KING, of Janesville,
and is a charming and talented lady. As noted elsewhere, the
father of Dr. BENNETT was in the early days a settler upon a
Wisconsin farm, and upon this farm the first years of the Monroe
dentist were passed. When ten years old he was taken into Monroe
by his parents, and there he completed his boyhood and youth,
passing through the Monroe schools in order, and in 1888 he was
graduated from the Chicago college of dental surgery. He set
up in the practice of his profession the same year in Monroe,
and here he has lived and labored to the present time.
- Dr. BENNETT and Miss Ida RODERICK were married Feb. 5, 1890.
Mrs. BENNETT is a
- daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (NEWMAN) RODERICK, and is
the mother of three children, Byron R., Catherine E. and one
who died in infancy. Dr. and Mrs. BENNETT belong to the Christian
Church, and he is a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is an
active worker in the Wisconsin Dental Society, and also in the
Southern Wisconsin Dental Society. The Doctor has been a Democrat,
and knows the reason of the faith that is in him. He has been
the recipient of complimentary notice on the part of his professional
associates, and in 1899 was elected president of the State Dental
Society. Dr. and Mrs. BENNETT occupy a pleasant home on East
Russell street, which has become the center of many social and
friendly interests.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 740-741.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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