Person:Joseph Bennett (30)

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BENNETT, JOSEPH, son of William and Charlotte Bennett, was born at Bridgton, Cumberland county, Maine, May 26, 1840. He received his early education at the district school in Sweden, Maine, and prepared for college at the Bridgton Academy JOSEPH BENNETT. and the Boston Latin school. He entered Bowdoin College with the class of 1864, withdrawing in junior year, and subsequently receiving from the college the degree of ?. ?., out of course. After studying law in the office of Asa Cottrell, in Boston, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1866, circuit court bar in 1868, and to the United States supreme court in 1882. He has practiced law in Boston since 1866, and is special justice of the Brighton district municipal court. Mr. Bennett was married April 26, 1866, at Boston, to Elizabeth R., daughter of John and Mary (Harding) l.afavour. They have three children: Joseph 1., Frederick S. and Mary E. Bennett. In 1879 Mr. Bennett was elected a member of the House of Representatives. In i88i-'82 he was a member of the State Senate, being made chairman of the committees on taxation, election laws, and division of the State into congressional districts. He also ser veil upon committees on probate and chancery, and judiciary. Mr. Bennett has been a member of the Boston school board, and for several years a member of the school committee of Brighton, one of the trustees of the Holton library, and trial justice in Middlesex county at the time of the annexation of Brighton to Boston

WHO'S WHO IN NEW ENGLAND A BIOGRAPHICAL DIÇTIONARY. OF LEADLNG LIVING M AND WOMEN OF THE STATES OF MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT, MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND, CONNECTICUT BY ALBERT NELSON MARQUIS SECOND EDITION, 1916 (FIRST EDITION 1909) Chicago: A. N. MARQUIS & COMPANY, Publishers = PAGE 106

BENNETT, Joseph, lawyer; b. Bridgeton, Me., May 26, 1840; s. William and Charlotte (Bennett) Bennett; descendant of John Bennett, who came from England about 1650, and settled in Charles- town, Mass.; prep. edn. Bridgeton (Me.) Acad., and Public Latin Sch., Boston; A.B., Bowdoin, 1864; m. Elizabeth R. Lefavour, of Boston, Feb., 1866; children, Joseph I., Fred S. (M.D.), May E. (Mrs. Homer Loring). Practiced in Boston since 1866. Trustee Public Library, Brighton, Mass., 1868-74; mem. Mass. Ho. of Rep., 1879, Senate, 1881-2, 1892. Republican. Recreations: country life. Home: 468 Commonwealth Av., Boston; (summer) Ashland, Mass. Office: 18 Tremont St., Boston.

1.   Joseph Bennett, in Reno, Conrad. Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England for the Nineteenth Century
   2:332, 1901.