2. i. ISAAC⁴ BENNETT, b. Abt. 1808, Pennsylvania.

ii. MARGARET BENNETT, b. Abt. 1809.

3. iii. MARTHA BENNETT, b. Abt. December 04, 1811, York Co., Ontario.

4. iv. AQUILLA JR. BENNETT, b. Bet. 1810 - 1817, York County, Ontario Canada.

v. SUSAN BENNETT, b. August 28, 1817; m. WILLARD MANN, December 03, 1838.

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Marriage: December 03, 1838

Witnesses to marriage: Isaac Bennett

5. vi. NICHOLAS BENNETT, b. April 15, 1819, Keswick, York Co., Ontario; d. September 21, 1850, Keswick twp, York Co., Ontario.

6. vii. PETER BENNETT, b. October 10, 1823, North Gwillimbury, York county, Ontario Canada; d. January 14, 1913, Muskoka Falls, Ontario Canada.

7. viii. HANNAH BENNETT, b. October 11, 1823, York County, Ontario Canada; d. June 28, 1917.

ix. JOHN BENNETT, b. Abt. 1828; d. Aft. 1849.

x. SARAH BENNETT, b. Abt. 1835.

xi. JESSE BENNETT, b. Abt. 1836.

i. JOSEPH⁵ BENNETT, b. Abt. 1830.

ii. REGINA BENNETT, b. January 01, 1833, Upper Canada; d. February 12, 1895, Harrison township, Elkhart County, Indiana; m. ADAM GLIMANHAGA; b. 1832, Upper Canada.

Notes for REGINA BENNETT:

Obituary:

"On the 12th of February 1895, in Harrison Twp., Elkhart Co., Ind., Regina Glumenhaga, daughter of Isaac and Mary Bennett, age 63 y., 11 m., 1 d. Buried on the 15th at Yellow Creek M.H. Funeral services by J.S. Lehman and J.F. Funk. Peace be to her ashes."

iii. SUSAN BENNETT, b. Abt. 1834.

iv. JOHN BENNETT, b. Abt. 1837.

v. NANCY BENNETT, b. Abt. 1839.

vi. HESTER BENNETT, b. Abt. 1841.

vii. CATHERINE BENNETT, b. Abt. 1843.

viii. MARY BENNETT, b. Abt. 1846.

ix. PRISCILLA BENNETT, b. Abt. 1851.

i. FEMALE⁵ KREIDER, b. Bet. 1833 - 1836, Canada?.

ii. ISAAC KREIDER, b. April 28, 1836, York County, Ontario Canada; d. April 04, 1918; m. ISABELLA WARE, February 10, 1861.

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Marriage: February 10, 1861

iii. SUSAN KREIDER, b. Abt. 1838, Ohio.

iv. CATHARINE KREIDER, b. Abt. 1840, Ohio; m. DAVID BAUGHMAN, July 01, 1865.

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Marriage: July 01, 1865

v. ABRAM KREIDER, b. Abt. 1842, Ohio.

vi. JACOB KREIDER, b. February 06, 1842, Ohio; d. December 10, 1909; m. AMANDA MILLER, October 28, 1865.

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Marriage: October 28, 1865

vii. DAVID B. KREIDER, b. Abt. 1846, Ohio; m. ETTIE A., Abt. 1868; b. Abt. 1851, Ohio.

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Marriage: Abt. 1868

viii. HANNAH M KREIDER, b. 1849, Ohio; m. ? GOOD, Abt. 1868, Ohio; d. Abt. 1870.

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Marriage: Abt. 1868, Ohio

ix. WILLIAM KREIDER, b. Abt. 1852.

i. ELISHA⁵ BENNETT⁹, b. Bet. 1840 - 1844, North Gwillimbury twp, York co., Ontario; m. PHILINDA MITCHELL¹⁰, January 24, 1863, North Gwillimbury twp., York Co., Ontario; b. Abt. 1843, Canada; d. Bef. 1910.

Notes for ELISHA BENNETT:

3 records used for dates of birth for Elisha:

1863 marriage record states he was 22 yrs. old

1870 census records his age 30 yrs

1880 census records his age 36 yrs.

1910 census record shows he was living in the Poor Farm, a widower

1920 census, Poor Farm.

Notes for PHILINDA MITCHELL:

On marriage record it states she was 20, which would put her date of birth at 1843, both Ravenna census extracts come up with a birth date of 1850.                                                                                                       Even though it was not uncommon for women to marry young in those early years, we tend to believe the marriage record as a more reliable record.  If she had been born in 1850 as the census's state, she would have only been 13 years old when she married.

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Marriage: January 24, 1863, North Gwillimbury twp., York Co., Ontario

Officiating: James Curts, Methodist Episcopal Minister

ii. ALTHA BENNETT, b. 1848.

i. SIDNEY JAMES⁵ BENNETT, b. March 18, 1838, Keswick twp, York Co., Ontario; d. May 24, 1911, Spokane, WA; m. EDITH CASE.

Notes for SIDNEY JAMES BENNETT:

As teenagers, he and his younger brother, David, left home in Keswick to find a future in the USA. Their mother had remarried and was starting a new family. Sidney first landed in Medina, NY, to work " for a man he knew from before" His work took him to St. Louis, MO, at the out break of the civil war. There he was forced into the confederate army. After 6 months, he escaped to join the US army at St. Louis at the Benton Barracks. "His war record covered four years and nine months. (It included campaign in Georgia, Alabama and other southern states) He first enlisted in the Twenty-third Missouri Infantry, and later in Company A, Twelfth Missouri Calvary, of which he was captain,"

Captain Bennett gives an account of his part in the Battle of Shiloh, as reported in his local newspaper, The Fort Dodge Messenger, 08 Apr 1902:

Captain Bennett's experience in the "Hornet's Nest".

"By a queer coincidence 40 years ago on Sunday morning, April 6, the desperate battle of Shiloh, which marked one of the turning points if the civil war, was begun. The fact that April 6 came again on Sunday this year, has been noted with interest by many an old veteran who fought with the boys in blue against the Johnny Rebs those awful days.

At the close of the war, the brigades of which Captain Bennett's troops formed a part, were sent against the Indians, who were committing depredations in Wyoming. The winter of 1865-1866 was spent at Fort Laramie, and after this the surveyor general of Kansas appointed him to conduct a survey of the Solomon river region. There occupied the summer of 1866. Failing by two days to secure a contract for the survey of No Man's Land, Captain Bennett gave up surveying. Having married at Lawrence, Kansas, he soon went to Boone, Iowa, and later removed to this city (Ft. Dodge City) (In both communities he operated a Cigar Store)

"For a number of years, Captain Bennett engaged in the tobacco business in Fort Dodge. Then in 1884, he went west to assist his brother, Nelson Bennett, who was doing construction work on the Northern Pacific, then being built through the mountains of Montana. No sooner did he arrive on the scene of operations, than Nelson Bennett was compelled to leave for New York City, and the entire responsibility of the work was thrown upon his brother. Although new to the work, yet he completed it satisfactorily and then assumed the superintendency of the construction of the Stampede tunnel through the Cascade range, a contract which his brother had secured in the east. The work was more difficult, with it approaches, two and one-half miles in length, yet Captain Bennett completed it five days ahead of time, thus saving a heavy penalty (and actually receiving a $5,000 bonus). Later he superintended the construction of still another tunnel west of the Cascades."

ii. DAVID HENRY BENNETT, b. June 21, 1840, Keswick twp, York Co., Ontario; d. September 27, 1862, Battle of Antietam, Civil War, MD.

Notes for DAVID HENRY BENNETT:

Excerpts from letters to his Mother and friends during the Civil War:

1. Letter addressed to "Dear Friends at Home"

" I left home (Keswick) to Medina (NY) to work for a man who I had worked with before. I was well acquainted with the Capt and the boys (of his CW unit). Seventy-two of us drilled in Medina for 2 weeks. Then, we drilled in Albany for 6 weeks. We were on guard duty in Washington, DC for 2-3 weeks then to Martinsburg,VA with 1000 men Regiment to join our division commander, Gen. Banks. Then to Washington, Baltimore, Harrisburg and Hagerstown, MD. From there, we marched to Williamsport on the Potomac and then to Martinsburg to catch our Division. Next was a march to Bunker Hill (18 miles) with 35,000 men in our Brigade.

We flanked the hill and captured the town but lost pickets/scouts to Calvary.

Off to Charleston for another battle in which our Regiment lost more than any other, we were more exposed as a fife brigade. Our Colonel is from Lakeport.

2. Letter addressed to Mother:

" Received letter from Sidney. he is stopping at uncle Joshua's. I was in Ball Bluff, Point Rooks, Charleston and Boliver Heights (hard fights)> I was also in skirmishes of Bunker Hill, VCA and Martinsburg. "Never had my skin cut". Gen. Hancock is situated on the Potomac, 50 mi from Fredrick's city.

3. Letter to Mother:

"Dear Mother, 1 Dec '61, Left home last spring, then 2 months ill with measles and near death in Albany. Last 4 months in good health, weight 161 lb and height 67.5 inches. 22 Oct '61, rebels drove us back across the Potomac and the following day we drove them back again.

Sidney's letter took 28 days to reach me. I think he was pressed into the rebel service. Give my respect to G-father and G-mother and Nathan. "Kiss the little children". Give my respect to inquiring friends.

4. Declaration for an original pension of a Mother dated 25 Oct 1878.

Diana Bennett appear before Willard Bennett, Justice of the Peace, in York Co., Canada. 60 year old widow of Nicholas Bennett, that David Bennett enlisted at Ridgeway, NY, into Cpt. Bowen's Co. was killed instantly while being carried from field wounded on 17 Sept 1862. Diana relied on David wholly for support since Nicholas Bennett died on 21 Sept 1854 and that she has not remarried and there were on September 17, 1862 the following children under her care that were less than 16 years of age:

Albert B. b.22 Oct '48

Amelia B. b. 9 Apr '51

5. Another letter from Diana to war department:

"David Bennett, never married. I have not remarried, little help from my parents and my own work now both parents are dead, I have nothing to depend on other than my own work.

signed, DB

iii. NELSON BENNETT, b. October 14, 1843, Sutton, York Co., Ontario, Canada; m. LOTTIE HUGGINS, September 02, 1881, Dillon, MT.

Notes for NELSON BENNETT:

"Mr. Bennett was born in Sutton (close to Keswick), Canada. and his life spanned the intervening years to the 20th of July, 1913. In early youth he left his mother's home. His father had died when the son was but seven years of age, leaving the widowed mother with six children to support and at the age of fourteen Nelson was doing a man's work on a farm. He attended the country schools for six month in a year, receiving such primitive instruction as the district schools of that time afforded. When seventeen ears of age he went to Orleans county (Medina), NY, and at the age of twenty years was employed by the United States government on the construction of government barracks. Later he made his way to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and although the youngest contractor in the field, did a profitable business, receiving a liberal patronage. He sank twenty-five successful wells in that region. In 1867 he went to Missouri and became identified with the west as school teacher, Indian fighter and miner. Before the advent of railroads into the rocky Mountain regions he was engaged in extensive transportation operations through the west in company with Senator William A. Clark of Montana. It was 1875 that he established mule freight trains in that state and it was while thus engaged that he met Washington Dunn, representative of Jay Gould, whose acquaintance he formed, resulting in Mr. Bennett's ultimately becoming interested in railroad building. During his freighting days he took into Butte, Montana, the first mining machinery conveyed into that camp and he built the first street railway system in Butte." He was considered one of the most sagacious of all the western railroad builders and within ten years had risen from an obscure position as a comparatively penniless young man to a place among the millionaires of the north west." (Source: Tacoma: It's History and it's Builders, Vol III, 1916 by Herbert Hunt, pp 5-9)

There is a autobiography dictated by Nelson Bennett in the last years of his life available through the Washington State Historical Library, Tacoma,

Went first to Pennsylvania to dig for oil in the early 1860's and struck it rich. From there, mining in Wyoming, and then became a Railroad Conductor. He and his brothers won the railroad race for the Northern Pacific when they completed the Stampede Pass Tunnel in Washington state. He settled in Tacoma, WA, where he owned newspapers, banks, built the town of Bellingham, WA and ran for Senator of Washington, but lost the race.

He had no male offspring. One of his daughters married John Richie who was mayor of Tokyo under General MacArthur at the end of WWII.

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Marriage: September 02, 1881, Dillon, MT

iv. WILLARD BENNETT¹⁴, b. October 18, 1844, Keswick twp, York Co., Ontario; d. April 19, 1924, Helena, MT; m. ELIZABETH TOMLINSON, 1873, Keswick, Ontario, Canada; b. 1855.

Notes for WILLARD BENNETT:

"Willard Bennett lived in Canada until he was fourteen year old. Then, in 1860, he removed to the United States and located at Medina, NY, when he remained eighteen months. Just then petroleum, the newest gift of Mother Earth to man, awakened the cupidity and quickened the energies of the dwellers on the Atlantic slope and the eastern portion of the Mississippi valley, and thousands flocked to the oil fields. Among them went Willard Bennett. he remained there two years, drilling oil wells with his brother, Nelson. In 1865 he went to Missouri and purchased land near Sedalia as a investment. In 1867 he returned to Pennsylvania and soon afterwards to Canada. Subsequently he returned to the oil regions and remained there until 1881, when he emigrated to Montana, locating at Deer Lodge, where he and his brother Nelson engaged in merchandising. They conducted Branch houses at Butte and Townsend, all under the firm name of Bennett Bros. For eleven years they prospered together' then, in 1892, Willard sold his share of the enterprise and purchased a controlling interests in the Royal gold mine in Granite county, which her operated successfully for four years. In 1894 his attention was attracted to the profitable and rapidly increasing industry of stock raising. By the year 1901, he had over 10,000 sheep and a large number of horses of superior quality.

(Source: Progressive Men of the State of Montana, Chicago, A.W. Bowen, 1902, pg 45.)

Settled in Montana, was a rancher, struck it rich on the Royal Gold Mine in Granite Co., Wyoming. He ran for State Representative of the territory and then State of Montana. He won both terms.

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Marriage: 1873, Keswick, Ontario, Canada

v. GEORGE ALBERT BENNETT, b. October 22, 1846, Keswick twp, York Co., Ontario; d. August 10, 1929, Raton, NM; m. (1) UNKNOWN, Bef. 1885; m. (2) ALICE JANE WARNER, May 05, 1885, Lawrence County, IL; m. (3) MARIA ANTONIA MCGINNIS, February 24, 1908, Almagordo, NM.

Notes for GEORGE ALBERT BENNETT:

Occupation: 23 October, 1884, Assumed Bennett Brothers "Pacific Wagons and Implement Co." of Montana with brothers Willard and Nelson.

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Marriage: Bef. 1885

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Marriage: May 05, 1885, Lawrence County, IL

More About GEORGE BENNETT and MARIA MCGINNIS:

Marriage: February 24, 1908, Almagordo, NM

vi. AMELIA BENNETT, b. April 09, 1850, Keswick twp, York Co., Ontario.

i. CELIA⁵ BENNETT, b. 1849, Barrie, Ontario Canada; d. 1888, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada; m. JOSEPH HUNTLEY, April 18, 1870, York Co., Ontario; b. Abt. 1839.

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Marriage: April 18, 1870, York Co., Ontario

i. MARTHA⁵ DRAPER, b. 1859.

ii. MARGARET DRAPER, b. 1859.

iii. GEORGE DRAPER, b. 1862.

iv. FRANCIS DRAPER, b. 1861.

v. EDITH DRAPER, b. 1868.

vi. EDGAR DRAPER, b. 1875; m. EVA ARKSEY, August 17, 1898, North Gwillimbury twp., York County, Ontario Canada; b. 1877.

More About EDGAR DRAPER and EVA ARKSEY:

Marriage: August 17, 1898, North Gwillimbury twp., York County, Ontario Canada

Record: 1898, Marriages of York County, Ontario #016195

Witnesses to marriage: Elisha & Diane Mann of North Gwillimbury twp., York County, Ontario Canada