Cumberland County, Maine - Joseph G. Bennett
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Biography
Joseph G. Bennett
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 365-366

Joseph G. Bennett, a carriage maker by trade, with which he has combined the
vocation of a farmer, is a lifelong resident of New Gloucester, where his birth
occurred on September 9, 1822. He is a son of Harmon and Lucy (Bennett) Bennett,
both of whom were born in Cumberland County. His father served as a patriot
soldier in the War of 1812. He afterward settled in Fairfield, Me., where he
spent the remainder of his life. His wife, Lucy, who was a daughter of Moses
Bennett, reared a family of nine children, three of whom are still living,
namely: Caroline, the wife of Charles Fernald, of Wisconsin; Mary Charlotte,
residing in Massachusetts; and Nathaniel, who lives on the old homestead in New
Gloucester. The deceased are: Clara, Lucy, Sallie, Esther, Laura, and Hannah.
Mrs. Lucy Bennett,. who lived to the advanced age of eighty-three years, died in
Strong, Me., where she spent the last years of her life.

Joseph G. Bennett was born at the home of his maternal grandfather, Moses
Bennett, and remained with him until eighteen years of age. At that time he
learned carriagemaking, and has since been engaged in that trade. In 1872 he
purchased the Captain Rackliffe farm, containing about fifty acres, on which he
now resides. He also owns a tract of timber land in another part of the town.
Although he is now advanced in years, Mr. Bennett still continues to work at
carriagemaking, and has a shop on his farm, where he does all kinds of general
repairing. His son assists him in the management of the farm.

On March 18, 1856, he was joined in marriage with Miss Alfreda A. Fairfield, a
daughter of the Rev. Smith Fairfield, who was at one time the minister in charge
of the Baptist church at New Gloucester. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bennett are the
parents of a son and daughter, namely: Flora M., the wife of the Rev. E. W.
Webber, a Universalist minister of Richmond, Me.; and Charles P., born in May,
1869, a clerk in a store of New Gloucester village, who married Miss Hattie
Woodbury, a school teacher, both residing with his father. The daughter received
a high-school education. Mr. Bennett is a stanch Democrat, and for many years he
has served as Constable in the town of New Gloucester. He and Mrs. Bennett are
regular attendants of the Baptist church.