This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett, Hoyle, Randolph Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BRD.2ACEB/4020.1.1 Message Board Post: I apologize for the delay in replying to your post... >From "Who's Who in Kern County, 1939" (pub by Wilson & Peterson, 1940) BENNETT, A.V. Parents, Thomas Jefferson and Sarah (RANDOLPH) BENNETT. Born, Adair, Ill., Feb. 6, 1880. Married, Carrie M. HOYLE, Dec. 15, 1906. Children: Eugene H., Gordon R., Lucille M. Educated, Public schools of Adair, Ill. Occupation: Farmer, Wasco Area. He was engaged in farming in McDonough County, Ill., from 1896 to 1906. He came to Kern County in 1907 and has been engaged in general farming in the Wasco area since then. He pioneered in the water development in 1907 and in potato development in 1908 and then in 1915 and he was also one of the early cotton growers in that section. He owned one of the first dairies in the Wasco area and engaged in the dairy business from 1910 to 1927, operating Bennett's Dairy. He has been a member of the Wasco Union High School District Board of Trustees since 1932 and has been Clerk of the Board since 1938. He was a member of the Board that built the Science building, Agricultural building and additions to the garage. The Board of whi! ch he was a member also bought the Agricultural Farm for the Wasco Union High School. Member: M.W. of A.; Kern County Farm Bureau, since its organization in Wasco; Wasco Growers Co-Operative Gin. He is a past member of the Wasco Business Men's Association. Recreation: Fishing, deep sea and trout. Address: Box 612, 'Phone 141, Wasco, Calif. I am not related to this family and have no other information about them. I'm just making the most of a $2.00 buy on eBay... If this helps you, please "pay it forward" by helping another researcher. I'm afraid that what I have on Mr. Bennett equals less than a full column... There are 600+ other people in the book and I've only posted a fraction of them, so I must decline your offer to buy it from me <grin>. Colleen Kayter