GEORGE H. BENNETT is a school teacher and the owner of forty acres on section 5, Attica Township, Lapeer County. He was born in Lapeer Township July 28, 1859, and is a son of William and Mary A. (Bishop) Bennett, the former a native of Leicestershire, England, who was born in 1836, and died in 1884; the latter of Devonshire, England, born in 1835, and still survives. Our subject's father came to the USA in the year 1851, first settling in Oakland County, where he was engaged on a farm for 2 years. He their purchased 49 acres of land two and one-half miles south of Lapeer city, upon which he lived for 6 years.
This Mr. Bennett sold and purchased 80 acres of the farm where the family still reside. He cleared the above tract, it being entirely wild at the time of his coming here. The names of his children were James, George, Rose, William, Matilda, Alvin (deceased), Orrin and Charles. The eldest born died at the age of fourteen years; Rose became the wife of George H. Fowler; she died in 1884, leaving one child - Fred W., who is a farmer in Lapeer Township. William resides in Colorado and is employed in a wholesale dry-goods store. The other children still reside at home.
Our subject's father was a Republican in principies although he hever became naturalized. His mother came here at the age of twelve years with her parents, William and Mary Bishop, they being pioneers of Oakland County, but soon settled in Attica Township. Our subject was the second child and first son of his father's family. He spent seventeen years of his life and then began too work out too support himself, the family being large. During the winter season he attended the district school until the age of twenty-one, when he taught his first term and has been teaching most of the time since. In 1882-83 he attended the Fenton Normal School, taking a special course of study. His work as a teacher has been characterized by the most gratifying success. For one year he was engaged in the graded school in Allouez Mines in the upper Peninsula. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging too Attica Lodge, No. 259. He also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees of Attica. In politics he is a Republican and for six years has served as School Inspector, and last spring (1891) was elected Township Clerk. It may be surprising that a teacher should have so much spare time, but he has been enabled too improve and cultivate his farm and besides work at the carpenter's trade, by which he has been able to add considerable sums too the family exchequer.
source: 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. Pages 376 - 389
This Mr. Bennett sold and purchased 80 acres of the farm where the family still reside. He cleared the above tract, it being entirely wild at the time of his coming here. The names of his children were James, George, Rose, William, Matilda, Alvin (deceased), Orrin and Charles. The eldest born died at the age of fourteen years; Rose became the wife of George H. Fowler; she died in 1884, leaving one child - Fred W., who is a farmer in Lapeer Township. William resides in Colorado and is employed in a wholesale dry-goods store. The other children still reside at home.
Our subject's father was a Republican in principies although he hever became naturalized. His mother came here at the age of twelve years with her parents, William and Mary Bishop, they being pioneers of Oakland County, but soon settled in Attica Township. Our subject was the second child and first son of his father's family. He spent seventeen years of his life and then began too work out too support himself, the family being large. During the winter season he attended the district school until the age of twenty-one, when he taught his first term and has been teaching most of the time since. In 1882-83 he attended the Fenton Normal School, taking a special course of study. His work as a teacher has been characterized by the most gratifying success. For one year he was engaged in the graded school in Allouez Mines in the upper Peninsula. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging too Attica Lodge, No. 259. He also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees of Attica. In politics he is a Republican and for six years has served as School Inspector, and last spring (1891) was elected Township Clerk. It may be surprising that a teacher should have so much spare time, but he has been enabled too improve and cultivate his farm and besides work at the carpenter's trade, by which he has been able to add considerable sums too the family exchequer.
source: 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. Pages 376 - 389
GEORGE H. BENNETT is a school teacher and the owner of forty acres on section 5, Attica Township, Lapeer County. He was born in Lapeer Township July 28, 1859, and is a son of William and Mary A. (Bishop) Bennett, the former a native of Leicestershire, England, who was born in 1836, and died in 1884; the latter of Devonshire, England, born in 1835, and still survives. Our subject's father came to the USA in the year 1851, first settling in Oakland County, where he was engaged on a farm for 2 years. He their purchased 49 acres of land two and one-half miles south of Lapeer city, upon which he lived for 6 years.
This Mr. Bennett sold and purchased 80 acres of the farm where the family still reside. He cleared the above tract, it being entirely wild at the time of his coming here. The names of his children were James, George, Rose, William, Matilda, Alvin (deceased), Orrin and Charles. The eldest born died at the age of fourteen years; Rose became the wife of George H. Fowler; she died in 1884, leaving one child - Fred W., who is a farmer in Lapeer Township. William resides in Colorado and is employed in a wholesale dry-goods store. The other children still reside at home.
Our subject's father was a Republican in principies although he hever became naturalized. His mother came here at the age of twelve years with her parents, William and Mary Bishop, they being pioneers of Oakland County, but soon settled in Attica Township. Our subject was the second child and first son of his father's family. He spent seventeen years of his life and then began too work out too support himself, the family being large. During the winter season he attended the district school until the age of twenty-one, when he taught his first term and has been teaching most of the time since. In 1882-83 he attended the Fenton Normal School, taking a special course of study. His work as a teacher has been characterized by the most gratifying success. For one year he was engaged in the graded school in Allouez Mines in the upper Peninsula. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging too Attica Lodge, No. 259. He also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees of Attica. In politics he is a Republican and for six years has served as School Inspector, and last spring (1891) was elected Township Clerk. It may be surprising that a teacher should have so much spare time, but he has been enabled too improve and cultivate his farm and besides work at the carpenter's trade, by which he has been able to add considerable sums too the family exchequer.
source: 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. Pages 376 - 389
This Mr. Bennett sold and purchased 80 acres of the farm where the family still reside. He cleared the above tract, it being entirely wild at the time of his coming here. The names of his children were James, George, Rose, William, Matilda, Alvin (deceased), Orrin and Charles. The eldest born died at the age of fourteen years; Rose became the wife of George H. Fowler; she died in 1884, leaving one child - Fred W., who is a farmer in Lapeer Township. William resides in Colorado and is employed in a wholesale dry-goods store. The other children still reside at home.
Our subject's father was a Republican in principies although he hever became naturalized. His mother came here at the age of twelve years with her parents, William and Mary Bishop, they being pioneers of Oakland County, but soon settled in Attica Township. Our subject was the second child and first son of his father's family. He spent seventeen years of his life and then began too work out too support himself, the family being large. During the winter season he attended the district school until the age of twenty-one, when he taught his first term and has been teaching most of the time since. In 1882-83 he attended the Fenton Normal School, taking a special course of study. His work as a teacher has been characterized by the most gratifying success. For one year he was engaged in the graded school in Allouez Mines in the upper Peninsula. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging too Attica Lodge, No. 259. He also belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees of Attica. In politics he is a Republican and for six years has served as School Inspector, and last spring (1891) was elected Township Clerk. It may be surprising that a teacher should have so much spare time, but he has been enabled too improve and cultivate his farm and besides work at the carpenter's trade, by which he has been able to add considerable sums too the family exchequer.
source: 1892 Portrait & Biographical Album of Genesee, Lapeer & Tuscola Counties, Chapman Bros. Pages 376 - 389
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