Edward Bennett

    Edward Bennett, farmer, Clay Township, was born in Yorkshire, England, July 25, 1827. His parents were Joseph and Charlotte (Otley) Bennett, both natives of Yorkshire, England. The former was a son of Edward Bennett, also a native of Yorkshire, England, where he was born about the year 1768, and was married in 1794, to Fanny Brooke, who was also a native of Yorkshire, England, and was born about the year 1768. He was a cloth manufacturer, and after is marriage located at Horbury, where he carried on a large manufacturing establishment, and where he resided until his death, which occurred  in September, 1841, and that of his widow in October, 1851. Their children were Mary, Fanny, John, Edward, Susan, Abraham, Hannah, William and Joseph. The father of our subject was the eldest member of the family. He was born at Horbury, England, February 8, 1795, and was there married about the year 1818 to Charlotte Otley, who was born also at Horbury, England, in October, 1795. In 1842, Mr. Bennett immigrated to the Untied States, and in the following year moved his family over, and located in Dearborn county, where he afterward resided until his death, which occurred September 22, 1860, followed by his widow November 2, 1873, at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was living with her daughter. They were the parents of five children, viz.: John B., George, Sarah A., Martha, and Edward, our subject.

    He immigrated to Dearborn County, Indiana in company with his father in 1842, where he was married September 25, 1851, to Catherine Huddart, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, August 18, 1831. After our subject's marriage he settle don a part of the same tract of land on which he now lives, which had been purchased by his father in 1843. In 1869 he sold his land there, and purchased from his brother the adjoining farm, on which he now lives. They have had born to them ten children, viz.: William H., Charles E., Thomas B., Martha, George W. (deceased), Albert (deceased), Joseph, Julian, James (deceased) and Harry.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.