- LEWIS F. BENNETT, M.D., is one of the younger physicians
of Beloit, Rock County, and has
- rapidly made his way into the forefront of his profession
in this part of the State. He has acquired a wide knowledge
of the theory of medicine and is very skillful in his application
of its great and fundamental principles to the treatment of disease.
He seeks to cure, and in the last dozen years has won an enviable
reputation in his chosen calling.
- Dr. BENNETT was born in the town of Lima, Rock Co., Wis.,
Nov. 10, 1860, and is a son of
- George and Susan F. (OSMOND) BENNETT, both natives of New
York. They were the parents of five children, three of whom
are now living: Dr. Lewis F.; Dr. O. G., deceased, who was a
popular dentist in Janesville; Chester C., a shoe dealer at Janesville;
James B., a farmer in the town of Lima; and one who died in infancy.
The father was a farmer, and came from New York to Wisconsin
about 1850, locating on a farm near Lima, where he and his wife
still reside. In religious faith they are Baptists, and are
recognized by their neighbors as genuine Christians. He is a
Republican. His father, Nathaniel BENNETT, was born in New York,
where he followed farming all his days. He died in middle life,
leaving five children. His father was a soldier in the Revolution.
The family is descended from English ancestry. Caleb OSMOND,
the father of Mrs. Susan F. BENNETT, mentioned above, was born
in England, and coming to this country in 1829, settled in the
western part of New York. He soon moved still farther West,
and found a home in what was then almost on the frontier line,
the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio, finally removing to Wisconsin,
where he effected a settlement near Milton Junction about 1855,
and engaged in farming until his death, about 1880, when he was
ninety years old. He was the father of six children. Politically
he was a Republican.
- Dr. Lewis F. BENNETT spent the first seventeen years of his
life on the farm. He began his
- education in the neighboring district school and Milton (Wis.)
College, graduating from that old and noted institution in 1883.
The next fall he matriculated at Rush Medical College, Chicago,
and was graduated in 1886, with honors. He opened an office
at Lyons, Wis., and there engaged in the practice of his profession
until 1889, in which year he moved to Beloit; he has since been
identified with the medical history of that city, his office
being in the Manchester block. He is a member of the staff of
the H. P. Strong Hospital.
- Dr. BENNETT and Miss Rebecca Alice STOCKMAN were married
May 6, 1886, and to this
- union two children have been born, George and Howard. Their
home is at No. 803 Bluff street, where the Doctor has erected
one of the finest residences in Beloit. Mrs. BENNETT is a Presbyterian,
and the Doctor attends church with her. He belongs to the American
Medical Association, to the State Medical Association, and to
the Wisconsin Central Medical Association; fraternally he is
a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is highly esteemed in
that order. He is a Republican in political sentiment. Mrs.
BENNETT's father, John STOCKMAN, is Scotch-Irish, and came from
the North of Ireland. Her mother, Elizabeth (NICHOLSON) STOCKMAN,
was born in England. Gen. WHITE, the prominent officer in the
English army operating in South Africa, is Mrs. BENNETT's father's
cousin.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 451-452.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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