Bennett, G.

BENNETT

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/25/2008 at 14:35:26

G. Bennett

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.173, Minden Twp.)
G. Bennett, farmer, P. O. Minden, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 11, 1844. He is the son of Bartlett and Mary Louisa Bennett. His father was a shoemaker; moved to Sauk County, Wis., in 1846, and died there the following year. The mother of our subject married Mr. Albertus, of Wisconsin, after the death of her first husband. She had three children by her first and four by her second husband. She died in Honey Creek, Walworth Co., Wis., in 1862. Our subject went to school in Sauk City and Honey Creek, Wis., till he was fifteen years old. He left home at the age of nineteen and has since been a farmer. He came to Minden Township June 16, 18784, and purchased eighty acres of wild land at $9.50 per acre. He commenced improvements at once - built a house and other buildings, set out a number of trees, and, in 1878, bought forty acres more, at $13 per acre. This was also wild land, but is now in a good state of cultivation. He engages in general farming. Our subject had a brother in the late civil war, who died at Memphis, Tenn. He (subject) was married, in Minden Township, this county, March 28, 1876, to Susannah Nippert, born October 15, 1854. She is the daughter of George and Sarah (Hershinger) Nippert, both natives of Alsace, France, he born in 1818. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have one childn, Charles Ray, born February 4, 1881. In politics, our subject is an Independent.