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- Name: WILLIAM L. BENNETT
Source: History of The Genesee Country (Western New York) Comprising
the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie,
Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler,
Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. Edited by Lockwood R. Doty - Four
volumes - 1925 - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago
Biography: William L. BENNETT William L. BENNETT, active in the real
estate and insurance field as sole owner of the business conducted
under the name of Arnold & BENNETT in Medina, has had a busy public
and business life and is widely recognized as one of the influential
residents of the city. He has also manifested keen interest in
community problems and is especially helpful in boys' work and in the
betterment of conditions for the young people. He was born in Eagle
Harbor, Orleans County, New York, on the 4th of July 1865, his parents
being William H. and Nancy (WALTERS) BENNETT. The father, who
immigrated to America from Devonshire, England, about 1850, was active
in the milling and cooperage business in western New York for more
than six decades. He had attained the venerable age of ninety years
when he departed this life in 1921. In the acquirement of an education
William L. BENNETT attended the grammar and high schools of East
Bloomfield, [Ontario County] New York, whence he came to Medina
[Orleans County] and was here employed as clerk in a clothing and
furniture store for nine years. He next became proprietor of the
Broadway Hat Store, which he sold ten years later when he went to
Albany to assume the duties of a clerk in the state senate. Following
his return to Medina he filled the position of postmaster by
appointment for one year. On the expiration of that period, in 1913,
he purchased the insurance business of Willis Bucke, Incorporated, in
association with C. H. Arnold, and for ten years they worked together,
developing the enterprise to its present extensive and profitable
proportions. In 1923 Mr. BENNETT purchased the interest of his partner
but still retains the firm name of Arnold & BENNETT. The business has
grown steadily until it ranks among the foremost of its kind in this
section of the state. Mr. BENNETT has been married twice. On the 20th
of March 1889, in East Bloomfield he was married to Margaret Bridgland
and they became the parents of a daughter: Edith May, who is the wife
of Frank P. Cartwright of Washington, D. C., a secretary to Herbert
Hoover. On the 20th of March, 1894, in Eagle Harbor, New York, Mr.
BENNETT was again married, his second union being with Augusta A.
Mosher, and they are the parents of two children: Elma Ruth, who is
the wife of David G. Crosby of Lyndonville, New York; and W. Hollis
BENNETT, who is with the General Motors Company in Detroit, Michigan.
Mr. BENNETT gives his political support to the Republican Party and is
widely recognized as a loyal and public-spirited citizen who withholds
his aid from no movement nor measure instituted to promote the general
welfare. He made an excellent record as town clerk, which position he
filled from 1896 until 1906, covering a period of ten years. Mr.
BENNETT has been a director of the Young Men's Christian Association
for twenty years. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, while his religious faith is indicated by his
membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is
serving as chairman of the finance committee. He likewise belongs to
the Medina Ad Club, the Rotary Social Culture Club and the City Club.
High and honorable principles have actuated him in all relations of
life and his fellow citizens attest his sterling worth. (Volume III,
pages 469, 470) SOURCE: History of The Genesee Country (Western New
York) Comprising the counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua,
Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans,
Schuyler, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates. Edited by Lockwood R.
Doty - Four volumes - 1925 - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company,
Chicago
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(Age 97 years)