Hon. J. M. Bennett - He was born in Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York. He received a common-school education, after which he came to Wisconsin in 1845. Here he taught school the first winter after his arrival. In the spring of 1846, he settled in Oregon, Dane County, where he has resided up to the present time, engaged in the mercantile business most of the time since 1849. In 1871, he helped to organize the First National Bank of Evansville, and has been its cashier since. He has filled the office of superintendent of schools; was a member of the board of county supervisors three years; and was elected member of the legislature in 1869. When he was twenty years of age, he was without means to help himself, save that he could work, which he did on a farm for ten dollars and fifty cents a month; but today he is worth a handsome property, which as been acquired through patient, honest industry, and rigid economy. Thus has he risen to an Independent position by a lawful way, and is a living example to his fellows.

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