A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . g his fellow-citizens in allplans for local progress. F. E. BENNETT. The prosperity of a towndepends upon the progressive spirit of its citi-zens. Were it possible to give to every villagea citizenship composed of men as energetic andresourceful as is Mr. Bennett, that hamlet wnulilsoon develop into a growing city with modernimprovements and substantial business enter-]irises. The town of Arro\o Grande owes muchto the substantial citizensh
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . g his fellow-citizens in allplans for local progress. F. E. BENNETT. The prosperity of a towndepends upon the progressive spirit of its citi-zens. Were it possible to give to every villagea citizenship composed of men as energetic andresourceful as is Mr. Bennett, that hamlet wnulilsoon develop into a growing city with modernimprovements and substantial business enter-]irises. The town of Arro\o Grande owes muchto the substantial citizenship of Mr. Bennett,who ever since coming to the place has been aleader in civic progress and a contributor tolocal enterprises of undoubted worth. Ever sincehe entered into business here in 1897 he hasranked among the leading men of the place andmeanwhile has established a business of substan-tial proportions and increasing dimensions. While Mr. Bennett came to the Pacific coastfrom Kansas he is a native of a state still furthereastward. His parents, Joseph and MaryfHouser) Bennett, were born in Michigan andConnecticut respectively and were married in. / HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 879 Michigan, where all of their seven children wereborn. From Michigan they moved to Kansasand engaged in farm pursuits, the mother dyingon the Kansas homestead at the age of fiftyyears, while the father, now retired, still makeshis home in that state. During the Civil war hegave faithful service to the Lnion cause as amember of a MichiLjan rcginK-nt and ever sincethe organization of the CniinI Arnn (if theRepublic he has been wanuh intcrosUd in itswork. Of his five children imw H\ing two arein California, one in King Lity. Monterey county,and the other at Arroyo (^irande. During the residence of the family in Michi-gan F. E. Bennett was born August 17. educated in the common schools ofthat state, he completed his grammar-schoolstudies after moving to Kansas at thirteen yearsof
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