WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884



Benson, George F., banker, Lake City, is a son of John and Lucy A. (Adams) Benson, natives of 
 New Hampshire. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1834, and educated in the schools of that 
 city, and Philips' Exeter Academy, at Exeter, New Hampshire. When seventeen years of age he went 
 to Buffalo, New York, and found employment in the office of a lumberman, where he remained about 
 eight years. In 1860 he engaged in the lumber trade at South Bend, Indiana, and two years later 
 removed his business to Plymouth, same state. He became a resident of Lake City in 1871, and was 
 one of the organizers of the First National Bank, and was president of that institution from August 19, 
 1873, to November 17, 1876. In 1877 he became a stockholder in the Lake City Bank, and is now 
 director, and one-fourth owner, of this solid establishment. He is a member of the masonic order, the 
 Episcopal church, and the republican party.