Jacob Bennett

BENNETT, SCHAFFER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/15/2004 at 09:45:39

Jacob Bennett, Madison twp.; farmer, Sec. 35; P.O. Winterset; owns 1,000 acres of land; Mr. Bennett is one of the earliest settlers in Madison county; was born in Fayette county,
Pennsylvania in 1796; came to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1806 when it was no larger that Earlham is now; stayed in Cincinnati three years, and then moved to Hamilton, Ohio, the back to Pennsylvania, then to Indiana, within seven miles of Indianapolis; lived there for twenty-one years; then came to Madison county in 1852; he married in 1821 to Miss L. Schaffer, of Pennsylvania; has a large family of children, twelve of which are living; when Mr. Bennett came to his present home, his nearest neighbor was eight miles distant; he built the first school-house in the township and gave it to the district; was in the war of 1812; he hauled the lumber for his house from Ft. Madison; is still a hale, jolly old man, whom it is a pleasure to talk with.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 645