supplemented by extensive historical reading, and by private study of Latin, French, Geometry and Surveying.

Mr. Bennett spent several years in the south, going to Louisiana in 1841, where he served first as a salesman in a village store. His apparent abilities brought him the request that he take charge of the village school. Returning to Portage in 1843 he taught there, and afterwards in Mount Morris and Castile; in every instance his services being sought without his ever having made application for a position.

In 1847, he went again to Louisiana, going by boat from Cincinnatti to New Orleans. He alludes, in his diary, with great surprise to meeting two ministers on the boat “going to Texas with their families!" He remained in New Orleans till after the eighth of January, 1848, when that city gave a welcome to Gen. Taylor. He then went to Gonzales, Texas, teaching school there and surveying.

In 1853, he visited his friends in this state, and married Huldah Olney, of Scipio, and they were soon on their way to Texas. In 1857, he exchanged a part of his property in Gonzales for cattle, and, sending his family north by steamer and railroad, he came overland with his herd, which, after fattening on the prairies, he disposed of in Chicago. Meeting his family in Scipio, that became his temporary home. The next year he made his last visit to Texas, again converting his property there into a herd which he also drove to northern markets. These trips through Kansas were made during the time of the Free-soil agitation there, in which he was greatly interested, and the bringing of voters from Missouri, and other machinations impressed him deeply.

In the Spring of 1860, it seemed necessary for him to take charge of the homestead in Portage, where he resided till infirmities, caused by accidents, necessitated leisure. His wife having died in 1887, and the homestead having passed into the hands of his son, he resided with his sisters in Nunda, until a year ago, when he was removed to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sharp, at Hunts. About two months since, for a necessary change, he was taken to the home of the late Joel Bennett, where he was cared for by his other daughter, Ellura Bennett, of Minneapolis. Mr. Bennett was a devout member and liberal supporter of the Episcopal Church in Hunts Hollow, of which he had been senior warden for many years. He appreciated and honored the good he so easily discerned in other churches, and frequently attended their services and helped in their work.

In politics, he was in youth a Whig, casting his first vote for William Henry Harrison, in 1840; since his return from Texas, he has been an ardent Republican-interested in the success of the present campaign, though his mind had been for the last few months somewhat clouded.

Until recently he held a ready and able pen, contributing frequent articles for the Historical Society, also many of general interest for the Nund a News, and it was very often used with great appreciation in writing obituaries of his friends and acquaintances who preceded him to the "Silent Land." He was a good, a noble, and, in many respects, a great man; and to his honored memory this inadequate memorial is lovingly dedicated.