Assorted Family Bios

LEVI F. BENNETT

Levi F. Bennett, an enterprising and successful agriculturist of Gibson township, Susquehanna county, is a representative of a well-known family of that locality, born March 4, 1832, in Clifford township, Susquehanna county, son of James Bennett.

Our subject remained with his parents until he reached the age of twenty-three, when he engaged in farming on his own account in Herrick township, Susquehanna county. At the age of thirty-five he returned to the old homestead, which he has continued to operate, and in 1896 he purchased the place from his father. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and as a citizen he is held in high esteem. On July 22, 1854, he married Miss Julia M. Coon, and they have had seven children: (1) James, born August 26, 1855, died December 20, 1886. (2) Charles, born April 13, 1859, married Julia Hayden, and resides in Uniondale, Penn. (3) Almirian, born in 1861, died when three years of age. (4) Ann, born in August, 1863, died when eight or nine years of age. (5) Nora, born February 4, 1865, married Frank Coil, and died August 25, 1886. (6) Jerry E., born April 22, 1874, resides at the old homestead. He married Jume 19, 1895, Miss Libbie Young, and has one son, Leon N. (7) Mary, twin of Jerry, married Bruce Belcher, a farmer of Lenox township, Susquehanna county, and has two children, Wiles E. and Ella E.

Mrs. Julia M. Bennett is a member of a well-known family, and was born January 5, 1835, in Herrick township, Susquehanna county. Her parents, Sylvester and Juliann (Dart) Coon, were natives of Roxbury, Conn., and came to Susquehanna county at an early day to engage in agriculture, locating first in Herrick township, and later in Gibson township. The mother died there in 1859, aged fifty-four years, and in 1870 the father went to Illnois, where he died aged about sixty-four years. They had the following children: Spencer, a retired wheelwright, residing in Iowa; Abraham, who died in Binghamton, N. Y.; Candace, who married William Maxson, and died in Kansas; George, who died in Kansas; Harriet, who married Charles Halstead, a carpenter at Scranton, Penn.; Julia M., wife of our subject; Nelson, a dealer in musical instruments, residing in Wisconsin; and Emily, who married Jerrard Tiffany, and died in Lenox township, Susquehanna county.

(This bio is from Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and many of the Early Settled Families., Beers, J. H. & Co., 1900, Chicago, page 1190)