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(II) John, eldest child of Edward and Bridget (Byrne) Lang, was born near the village of Ballina, county Mayo, Ireland. September 8, 1811. He at- tended a school at Ballina, one and a half miles from his home, which was provided by the English government for the children of soldiers who had served in the English army. Ilere the fatigue of his long walk to and from school was often lightened by the driver of the public coach which passed through the village and near his home, who allowed him to ride on the foot board behind. He remem- bers once having visited his relatives in Glasgow. with his father. At the age of ten or eleven he ac- companied his parents on their removal to America via Sligo and Quebec. After the family settled at
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Shefford he attended school for a time, and assisted his father to clear a one hundred acre tract of land which he took up. Having learned the cooper's trade he built a shop for himself at Shefford, Prov- ince of Quebec, and supplied barrels for the lime and fruit trade at Waterloo, and also made fish kits. In this business he spent the greater part of his life, though he was a farmer part of the time in connection with this. In his advanced life, when unable to carry on business, he was a book solicitor for some years. He was a soldier in the Rebellion of 1837, and took part in the skirmish at Moor's Corner near Phillipsburg. In 1866 he again fought for his government, and now has a silver medal with the bust of the Queen on the obverse side, sur- rounded by the words : "Victoria Regina et Impera- trix;" and on the edge the words: " Pte J. Lang Ist Waterloo 1 Co." In 1906 lie removed to Man- chester, New Hampshire, and now (1907) lives with his son, Jolin Lang, Jr. He married, about 1832, at St. Armand, Province of Quebec, Drusilla IIayes, born at St. Armand, died at Shefford, 1888, aged about sixty-three years. Their children were: Henry, Elizabeth, Jane and John.
(IV) Walter Monroe, eldest child of Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Wright) Lang, was born in Ful- ford, Broome county, Province of Quebec, January 20, 1867. He was educated in the public schools and at Magog Academy, graduating from the latter in- stitution in 1885. In 1886 he removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he was employed in the dress-room of the Manchester Mills until 1888. He served one year to learn the trade of cutter. He opened a tailor shop for himself in West Derry, which he carried on two years. He was then of- fered the. position of manager of one of the stores of the Plymouth Rock Pants Company, in Man- chester, and selling his business accepted and filled this position as manager until the company went out of business in 1892. He then became manager for the Cushman & Hardy Company, clothiers, and had charge of that business until 1895. when the firm closed its business. In January following he went into the employ of Charles A. Hoyt & Company, house furnishers, for whom he acted as salesman in the store and on the road. Resigning this posi- tion he formed a partnership with Carlton Lowell Ruiter, under the firm name of Lang & Ruiter, which continued for three years, when Mr. Lang sold his interest to his partner and was appointed su- perintendent of agents of the Prudential Life In- surance Company. He discharged the duties of
this place until January 1, 1905, when he was made state manager, which position he now hoids. Mr. Lang is a man of much energy, and successful in a line of business where energy and tireless activity are the principal elements of success.
March 8, 1893, he became a member of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, in Oakhill Lodge, No. 97, of which he is now a past grand. Subse- quently he became a member of Mt. Washington Encampment, No. 16, and filled all the offices up to and including that of chief patriarch. He is past commander of Grand Canton Ridgley, No. 2; past representative to the grand lodge, grand encamp- ment and department council; chairman of the finance committee of the grand lodge while a mem- ber of that body, and 1907 district deputy grand master of this district ( No. 8), the largest dis- trict in the state. He is now commissary on the col- onel's staff of the Patriarchs Militant, and also a member of Arbutus Rebekah Lodge, No. 51, and was representative to the sovereign grand lodge, which met in Toronto, Canada, in the fall of 1906. He is a member of the Calumet Club, was for six years ( 1899-1905), a member of the First New Hampshire Light Battery, is a member of Derry- field Grange, No. 51, of Manchester, the Vermont Association, also of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the first Church of Christ (Scientist). In poli- tics Mr. Lang is a Republican; he served the city as a councilman two terms of two years each-1900 to 1905-in 1906 was elected representative to repre- sent Manchester at the general court, and filled the office of chairman of the committee on insurance, the most important committee in that body.
(III) Henry, eldest child of John and Drusilla (Hayes) Lang, was born in the town and county of Broome, Province of Quebec, March 8, 1844. After completing his education in the public schools he engaged in farming for ten years. He then took up the carpenter's trade, and was engaged as a car- penter and builder for seven years. At the end of that time he opened a general store at Fulford, which he carried on four years, and then moved to Magog, where he continued in the same business three years longer. In 1886 he removed to Manchester, New Mr. Lang married (first), at Waterloo, Province of Quebec, February 24, 1886, Kathleen A. Hoyt, daughter of the late Judge Lewis A. Hoyt, of Magog, Province of Quebec. She died May 6, 1887. He married (second), December 18, 1889, at Magog, Province of Quebec, Clara E. Magoon, born at Magoon's' Point, Stanstead county, Province of Quebec, February 8, 1867, daughter of Aaron and Betsey E. (Blake) Magoon, of Magog. One child was born in Manchester, September 15, 1892. Hampshire, where he is now a successful contracting carpenter. He is a Republican, and a member of the Episcopal Church. He married, May 28, 1865, Mary Elizabeth Wright, born June 2, 1841, died May 29, 1892, aged fifty-seven. She was the daughter of Grover and Ursula (Johnson) Wright, of Swanton, Vermont. They had three children: Walter M., Frances E., now the wife of Joseph Brooks, of Man- chester; Nettie U., deceased, was wife of Charles . the issue of thic second marriage, Marion Elizabeth, M. Eastman, of Littleton.
BENNETT This name, which is an abbreviation of Benedict, the English form of the Latin Benedictus, meaning "blessed," was the name of many citizens who came from Eng- land and settled in Massachusetts in the early days of that commonwealth, whose descendants are not al- ways easily traced. When the revolution came, the Bennetts, with all the varied spellings of the name, were numerous. Tlie Revolutionary rolls of Massa- chusetts show one hundred and twenty Bennets, ninety Bennetts, thirty Bennits, and nineteen Ben- nitts, who enrolled as soldiers in that struggle. There are four distinct lines of Bennett traced from Essex county, Massachusetts.
(1) John Bennett was born in England, 1632, and to judge from the number of Bennetts who came to America earlier he found numerous rela- tives in New England when he arrived here. There is a tradition that he ran away with a Scotch peas- ant's daughter, and that he was the son of a nobleman, evidence of which is afforded by his court dress, said to be in the possession of one of his descendants. The family tradition that the family is of Scotch and English origin is probably cor- rect. He was an inhabitant of Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, in 1659, and was a weaver by trade. He was drowned, 1674, between R. Martin's ship and
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a lighter. His widow, Mary, married (second) Richard Meade, 1678. The children of John and Mary Bennett were: John, born about 1659, cord- wainer by trade ("from Lancaster at Sweetser's, March 29, 1676"). This record shows that John Bennett lived at Lancaster, and that he was driven from the town by the impending war. He mar- ried Ruth Bradshaw and settled in Roxbury. They had three sons: Josias, died in infancy, September 12, 1663; Josias, born April 23, 1664, married Re- becca Cutler, December 9, 1694; James, see forward; and Mary.
(11) James, third son of John and Mary Ben- nett, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, May 31, 1666. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where the Bennett family was then located prin- cipally. He married Elizabeth Tarbell (Tarbole) February 1, 1680-81. She was born 1656 and died July 25, 1684. There is some error in the record as given by Wyman, for James was probably not married at the age of fifteen. James and Elizabeth (Tarbell) Bennett had two'children at Roxbury. They were: James, mentioned below; Josias, born May 6, 1684; it is probable that he returned to Lancaster or vicinity. His son James appears to be the James Bennett, of Groton, and his son Jo- siah, the pioneer of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
(III) James (2), probably a son of James (1) and Elizabeth (Tarbell) Bennett, was born De- cember II, 1681. He married March 23, 1703, at Reading, Massachusetts, where John Brown, the justice of the peace who married them, recorded both as of Groton. They had a son James according to the Reading History.
(IV) James (3), son of James (2) Bennett, was born at Groton, probably about 1704. He mar- ried Elizabeth (or Betsey) Dodge. Their children, as recorded, were: Sarah, born at Reading, 1745, married Parker; Thomas, see below ; Stephen, was in the revolution; William, born at Reading, 1754; James, was in the revolution, married Mary Walker, April 13, 1770; Elizabeth, born at Reading, 1761; Joseph, father of Kendall Bennett, of Groton; Jonathan, born November 28, 1775; Jacob, went to New Boston ; Jonathan, married Mary Shattuck, daughter of Job Shattuck. Stephen and James Bennett settled in Billerica, near the Burling- ton line, southeast of the Shawshin schoolhouse. Both have numerous descendants thereabouts. Others of the family settled in Burlington. (Men- tion of Jacob and descendants is a part of this article. )
(V) Thomas, first son and second child of James (3) and Elizabethı (Dodge) Bennett, was born probably about 1750, in Reading or Groton, Massa- chusetts. He married Mary Smith, of Woburn, at that place, June 21, 1776. They lived at Woburn and Burlington, Massachusetts. He was in Cap- tain Timothy Wynne's company in the revolution. His brothers Stephen and James were also in the Continental army. He was one of the eight Massa- chusetts men who attempted to return home on foot from Newburgh, and he was one of two to make the journey successfully. The children of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Bennett were: Mary, born February 4, 1777; Thomas, married September 8, 1803, Nancy Tay, of Woburn, Massachusetts ; James, born about 1779, died November 20, 1849; Betsey, born 1783. died September 11, 1860, married Aaron Corey; Abijah, born March 24, 1787, married Mary Green, of Pepperell, who was born June 22, 1795, he died July 24, 1841; Isaac, born April 29, 1791, married Indiana Green. of Pepperell, Decem-
ber 2, 1813, he died March 21, 1880; Jonathan Smith, mentioned below; Sally, married Aaron Williams, of Groton, Massachusetts; Jerusha, born February 8, 1807, married George Hunt.
(VI) Thomas (2), eldest son and second child of Thomas (I) and Mary ( Smith) Bennett, resided for sometime in Dunstable, and was subsequently a settler of Brookline, New Hampshire. He was married September 8, 1803, to Naney Tay, of Wo- burn, Massachusetts. The record states that he was at that time a resident of Dunstable. They were the parents of only two children, one of whom died at the age of two years and nine months. It is quite possible that his wife was a widow at the time of their marriage, as the family record gives her maiden name as Shattuck. She was married a sec- ond time, March 15, 1821, in Woburn, to Junius Richardson.
(VII) Rodolphus D., only son of Thomas and Nancy (Shattuck) Bennett, was born at Brookline, New Hampshire, February 3, 1817. He was a farmer, and came from Brookline to Milford in 1849. On May 14, 1840, he married Mary Wood- ward, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Melendy ) Woodward, who was born at Merrimack, New Hampshire, February 9, 1820. They had six chil- dren: Albert Rodolphus, whose sketch follows; William Alphonso, Alfred Allen, Mary Emily, Anna Frances and Clara Louise. William Alphonso Ben- nett was born at Merrimack, New Hampshire, De- cember 9, 1845. Alfred Allen Bennett was born at Brookline, New Hampshire, November 30, 1848, and now professor in a college in Ames, Ohio. Mary E. Bennett, born at Milford, New Hampshire, Sep- . tember 12, 1851, married John F. Gillis, of Hudson, New Hampshire, on September 8, 1874, and lives in Manchester, this state. Anna F. Bennett, born October 24, 1853, married Louis P. Cumnock, of Lowell, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1879, and died at Lynn, Massachusetts, on July 24, 1880. Clara L. Bennett, born December 5, 1859, married Frank L. Downes, on October 20, 1885, and lives in Manchester. Rodolphus D. Bennett, the father, died at Milford, New Hampshire, February 27, 1887.
(VIII) Albert Rodolphus, eldest child of Ro- dolphus D. and Mary (Woodward) Bennett, was born at Merrimack, New Hampshire, September 27, 1844, and at the age of seven moved with his father to Milford. He was a cooper by trade, and a Re- publican in politics. He was killed in the factory at Milford, New Hampshire, in 1872. In November, 1866, Albert R. Bennett married Carrie Fairfield, daughter of Hiram and Fanny (Peabody) Fair- field, who was born at Stoddard, New Hampshire, March 2, 1848. They had one child, the subject of the next paragraph.
(IX) William A., son of Albert and Carrie (Fairfield) Bennett, was born at Milford, New Hampshire, August 18, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to the factory which he now superintends, to learn the wool and leather busi- ness. After serving the present company in every department of the large concern, he became familiar with all the branches of the business, from the pulling of the wool to the finish of the leather into morocco for shoe stock. In 1897 the company pro- moted him to foreman. After filling that position with ability he was again promoted, 1902, to be general superintendent of the whole factory with one hundred and twenty-five employees under his control. A1r. Bennett is a selfmade man in every
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respect. He is a Republican in politics, and attends the Congregational Church. He is a charter mem- ber of Rockrimmon Lodge, Knights of Pythias. On June 20, 1900, William A. Bennett married Emma Cowey, daughter of John E. Cowey. They have no children, and their home is on Brown ave- nue, South Manchester.
(V) Jacob, seventh son and eighth child of James (3) and Elizabeth (Dodge ) Bennett, was born August 10, 1765, probably in Billerica, and settled in New Boston, New Hampshire, where he died February 20, 1852, in his eighty-seventh year. He had been brought up to farming, and at the age of twenty-two years he purchased a tract of land in New Boston upon which he passed the remainder of his life. He was a stone and brick mason by trade, and much of the work which he constructed is still standing as a monument to his skill and industry. He took a prominent part in the affairs of the town, and was many years a deacon of the Baptist Church. In politics he was a Democrat, and late in life he allied himself with the Advent Church. He was married to Jerusha Whipple, who was born October 17, 1768, a daughter of John and Deliverance (Dodge) Whipple. John Whipple was born 1747, in Ipswich, and settled at an early age in New Boston, New Hampshire. Mrs. Ben- nett died September 21, 1838, in her seventy-first year. He was an active member of the Baptist Church. Their children were: I. Betsey, born No- vember 8, 1787, married Oliver Dodge, who died November 16, 1818. 2. John, born September 14, 1789, died at Dracut, Massachusetts, September '6, 1865: married, May 22, 1814, Rebecca Kendall, who was born December 10, 1795, and died April I, 1865. 3. Stephen; see forward. 4. James, born October 12, 1795, died September 27, 1828; married, first, Mary Sargent, and ( second) Margaret Hall. 5. Saloma, born October 14, 1797, died at New Bos- ton, New Hampshire, March 4, 1881; married, first, Edward Dodge, May 16, 1822, and ( second) De- cember 12, 1867, Livermore Langdell, who died May 10, 1881. 6. Belinda, born December 13, 1798, died October, 1799. 7. Belinda (second), born November 12, 1800, died March 14, 1819. 8. Delpha, born October 22, 1802, died September 24, 1805. 9. Louisa, born June 18, 1805. died March, 1892, married, November, 1827, Oliver Hartwell, who was born November 22, 1802, and who died March, 1833.
(VI) Stephen, third child and second son of Jacob and Jerusha (Whipple) Bennett, was born in New Boston, January 4. 1793, and died September 22, 1860, aged sixty-seven years. He spent the years of his minority on his father's farm, and got such schooling as the common schools furnished. He followed in the footsteps of his father, was a mason by trade, and bought a farm upon which he settled after his marriage. He dealt in real estate and owned timber lots from which he cut the wood for lumber, and thus did a profitable business. He was a member of the Universalist Church, and a prosperous and prominent man. For some years he was a member of the board of selectmen. He married, April 8, 1813, Hannah Hogg, who was born October 17, 1792, and died June 3, 1882, daughter of Abner and Rosanna Hogg, of New Boston. Eleven children were born of this mar- riage: 1. James, died young. 2. Salome, born March 23, 1815, married Joseph Battles, of Lowell, Massachusetts. 3. Joseph E., born April 9, 1817, died February 20, 1900; married first, Susan Dyer, of Searsmont, Maine, and (second) Mary Hartwell, of Manchester, New Hampshire. 4. Hannah H ..
born September 15, 1819, died December 7, 1892; married first, Peter Crombie, of New Boston, and (second) Joel Wilkins, of Antrim, New Hampshire. 5. Stephen M., born August 14, 1821, died April 25, 1906; married first, Mary Emery, of New Boston, and (second) Carrie Williams, of Montpelier, Ver- mont. 6. Jacob, born March 19, 1824, died unmarried April 22, 1884. 7. John J., born October 15, 1829, married first, Mary McCauley, of Deering, New Hampshire, and (second) Lucia Tilton, of Man- chester. 8. Sarah Ann, born April 10, 1826, died September 8, 1833. 9. Abner H., born May 15, 1827, died October 22, 1847. 10. Rosanna, born June 4, 1832, died September 14, 1833. II. Andrew J., see forward.
(VII) Andrew Jackson, seventh son and youngest child of Stephen and Hannah (Hogg) Bennett, was born August 28, 1835, in New Boston, where he got his education in the common and high schools. He was a war Democrat in the time of the great rebellion, and August 14, 1862, he en- listed from New Boston in Company C, in the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, and was mustered into the United States service on the 21st of the same month. He was a sergeant and served in the army of the Potomac, and was severely wounded at Bethesda Church, Virginia, June 3, 1864. and discharged for disability, May 9, 1865, at Manchester, after serving two years and nine months. He learned the mason's trade when a young man, and in 1884 removed to Manchester, where for ten years he followed that calling. Since 1894 he has been janitor of the post office building in Man- chester. While in New Boston, Mr. Bennett was superintendent of schools one year, and represented the town in the legislature in 1869-70, and filled other offices. He is a member of Louis Bell Post, No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic, of Manchester. He was made a Mason in Pacific Lodge in 1884, and is now a member of Washington Lodge of Manchester. He married, July 3. 1859, Agusta S. McIlvin, who was born July 3, 1838, daughter of Moody B. and Mary W. (Stickney) McIlvin, of Antrim. She was educated in the common schools and at Hop- kinton Academy, and in the high school at Bellows Falls, Vermont. After leaving school, she taught school seven years. She is an attendant of the Congregational Church, of Manchester, a member of Rebekah Lodge, No. 16, is past department presi- dent of the Woman's Relief Corps, and past worthy matron of Ruth Chapter, No. 16, Eastern Star, of Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have one child, Moody Bell S., who was born in New Boston, September 6, 1873.
BENNETT The Bennetts of Swanzey are de- scended from an early settler in Richmond, New Hampshire, who came from Massachusetts shortly after the Revo- lutionary War. The family is of English descent and several of this name emigrated during the seventeenth century, among whom were Anthony Bennett, who settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts, about the year 1635, and John Bennett, who was residing at Beverly in 1668, but an attempt to trace with accuracy the Richmond settler's line of descent back to its original English source has been thus far unsuccessful owing to lack of time and op- portunity for original research.
(I) The earliest ancestor of the Swanzey Ben- netts whom the writer can vouch for with certainty was John Bennett, who was probably an older son of James (3) and Elizabeth (Dodge) Bennett, born
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before their settlement in Reading, about the year 1740. He went from that town to Richmond, New Hampshire, in 1787. He purchased the Daniel Read farm, which he cultivated for a number of years. and he spent his declining days at the residence of his son Levi, in Swanzey. The maiden name of his wife does not appear in the records consulted. His children were: Levi, David, Deborah, Ashael, Mary, Nehemiah, Joanna and Naomi.
(II) Nehemiah, sixth child and youngest son of John Bennett, was born in Douglas, December 28, 1770. As a youth of seventeen years he accompanied his parents to Richmond, from whence he subse- quently removed to Swanzey, and his death occurred in the last-named town, June 30, 1836. He married Lucy Garnsey, born November 29, 1774, daughter of Deacon Amos and Merriam (Pike) Garnsey (see Gurnsey), and was the father of Hiram, Esther, Nellie, Amos, Asahel, John and Lucy.
(III) Amos, second son and fourth child of Nehemiah and Lucy (Garnsey) Bennett, was born in Swanzey, and died there September 2. 1856. He was married April 18, 1821, to Lucretia Buffum, born August 5, 1804, daughter of Esek Buffum, of Richmond, and her death occurred in Norwich, Connecticut, May 13, 1882. They had a family of nine children, namely : Emily B .. Amos G., Asahel, Oscar, John, Andrew, Wales, Fanny and Sarah Jane.
(IV) Amos Garnsey, second child and eldest son of Amos and Lucretia (Buffum) Bennett, was born October 7, 1825 or 1826, in Richmond. He resided for some time with Peleg Taft, of Rich- mond, whose daughter Almina he married April 18, 1847, and subsequently removing to the Four Cor- ners he followed the blacksmith's trade at the Pickering place (so called) for many years. In 1879 he purchased the Moses Howard farm in West Swanzey, and resided there until his death, which occurred May 1, 1893. His wife, Almina (Taft) Bennett, who was born in Richmond, Janu- ary 22, 1828, and died July 10, 1903, became the mother of two sons: Oscar Cyrenus, born February 28, 1848; and Otto Peleg Bennett, who is referred to at greater length in the succeeding paragraph. Oscar C. Bennett was married February I, 1870, to Emma S. Bolster, who was born January 24, 1851, daughter of Almon Bolster. They have one son, Ivo Amos, born in Richmond, August 4. 1871.
(V) Otto Peleg, youngest son of Amos G. and Almina (Taft) Bennett, was born in Richmond, November 7, 1857. Having concluded his attendance at the public schools, he worked with his father at the blacksmith's trade, and went with the latter to West Swanzey. He was associated with the elder Bennett in carrying on the farm, and continued to reside there for the remainder of his life, which terminated February 24, 1906. Ile was an able and successful farmer, and a highly esteemed citizen, whose untimely demise was sincerely deplored by a wide circle of devoted friends. Politically he sup- ported the Democratic party. He had been officially connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- Iows and the Improved Order of Red Men, and was also a member of the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry. His religious affiliations were with the Unitarians.
On March 29, 1879, Mr. Bennett was married in Keene to Attie Hartwell Aldrich, who was born in Richmond September S, 1861, daughter of David B. Aldrich. The only child of this union is Ibie Al- mina, born in Swanzey, July 25, 1884, and is now the wife of Charles Eugene Avery, also a native of that town, born December 24, 1874.
The Marden family is of English MARDEN descent. As far as published records show, the emigrants to this country have not been very numerous. Savage only mentions Richard Marden, who settled in New Haven, Con- necticut, in 1616, and took the oath of fidelity the following year. As far as ascertaincd, New Hamp- shire seems to have been their attractive camping ground, though some have settled in Massachusetts. Members of the present family have found homes in Rye, Windham, and New Boston. They have proved themselves highly respected and valuable citizens, many of them of scholarly tastes and habits, who became college graduates, clergymen and law- yers, one of the latter at least having attained to an honorable distinction as judge. Some of them have been active in politics, and prominent in state and national conventions.
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