E. F. BENNETT, tinner,
was born in New Castle, Penn., October 13, 1839, and is a son of Silas
and Catharine (Nicholas) Bennett, the former a native of Connecticut,
born in 1816, and the latter of Eastern Pennsylvania. The parents of
Silas died when he was six years old, and he then went to live with his
uncle, who removed to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and
learned the tin and coppersmith trade. In 1837 he was there married to
Catharine Nicholas, who had come from Eastern Pennsylvania to Ohio with
her brother-in-law. Eleven children were born of this union, ten of
whom are living. In 1837 Silas Bennett located in business at New
Castle, Penn., where all of his children were born. His wife died in
that city in February, 1882, and he survived her until July 30, 1887.
Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he
was a Republican. Our subject grew up in New Castle, and learned the
tinner’s trade with his father. At age of seventeen he went to Warren,
Ohio, where he worked at his trade till September 2, 1861, when he came
to Sharon, Penn., and enlisted in Company B, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania
Volunteers. He served in the field until the charge on Port Wagner,
S.C., where he was severely wounded and taken prisoner. The Confederate
surgeons amputated his left leg, and he was soon afterward exchanged
and sent to New York, where it was found necessary to perform another
amputation. He remained in hospital quarters till his discharge July
27, 1864, when he returned to New Castle and thence to Warren, Ohio In
May, 1866, Mr. Bennett came to Greenville, where he has since remained.
He was married July 25, 1866, to Miss Ellen J. Dunlap, of Warren, Ohio,
who is the mother of one son, William H. In June, 1878, Mr. Bennett
opened a tinner’s and job shop in Greenville, and has since carried on
a successful business. The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He is a Republican in politics, has served in the council three
years, and is a member of the G. A. R. and the Masonic fraternity.
Source: (History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 776)
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