NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11427 GREENUP CO – JOSEPH BENTLEY BENNETT PART !– Bennett, Greene, Mills 11427 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928 Greenup Co. JOSEPH BENTLEY BENNETT. The name of Joseph Bentley Bennett merits an enduring place on the pages of Kentucky’s history because of his achievements as a congressman, his intense loyalty to his state, his high character and superior intellectual attainments. He also established an enviable record as county judge and for many years was regarded as the leading representatives of Greenup’s legal fraternity. He was born April 27, 1859, at Bennett’s Mills, Greenup county, and was a member of one of the old and prominent families of this section of the state. He traced his ancestry to Thomas Bennett, one of the first settlers of Jamestown, Virginia, and was also a descendant of General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary war fame. Thaddeus Bennett, the great-grandfather of Joseph Bentley Bennett, was of Scotch-Irish lineage and a native of Virginia. When a child he was taken by his parents to the state of New York and was reared on a farm on the banks of the Genesee river. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Continental Army and aided in winning American independence. He was married in the Empire state and in 1818 migrated with his family to Ohio, casting in his lot with the pioneer farmers of Scioto county. There he spent the remainder of his life, passing away at the age of seventy-four years. His son, Joseph Bennett, was born in Chemung county, New York, and became an agriculturist, also operating a number of the old water-power flour mills. He was a minister of the Baptist church and filled pastorates in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and Michigan. He was a valiant soldier in the War of 1812 and his sympathies were with the Union during the conflict between the states. He was a stanch adherent of the republican party and filled the office of magistrate. His first wife was Elizabeth Mills, a native of Havana, Schuyler county, New York. She was called to her final rest July 12, 1862, and his demise occurred April 30, 1868. Their son, Benjamin Franklin Bennett, was born October 11, 1828, in Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio, and managed his father’s business while the latter was attending to his ministerial duties. In 1855 Benjamin F. Bennett came to Kentucky and purchased the saw and corn mills at the Globe Furnace on Tygert creek, in Greenup county. He rebuilt the mills, in which he installed modern equipment, and made them the largest planning, saw, flour and feed mills in the county. He also became the owner of the old furnace tract, comprising about three thousand acres of land, on which there was valuable timber. He cleared the place and eventually converted the property into a number of productive farms. He was a sagacious, farsighted business man of strict honesty and aided in pushing forward the wheels of progress in northeastern Kentucky. On September 12, 1861, Mr. Bennett enlisted in Company G of the Fifty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was made second sergeant, and subsequently acted as wagonmaster for the regiment. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing and at Corinth became ill. He was discharged July 25, 1862, owning to disability, and after regaining his health took up the study of law. In 1863 he was appointed deputy provost marshal and special agent and served in these capacities until the close of the war. He then resumed his legal studies and in March, 1866, was admitted to the bar. He then resumed his legal studies and in March, 1866, was admitted to the bar. He followed his profession at Greenup for several years and successfully handled important litigation, practicing before the state and federal courts of Kentucky. He was originally a whig and later became a stanch republican. He was one of the political leaders of the state and in 1890 was chosen a member of the constitutional convention, which was held at Frankfort. He took a conspicuous part in the proceedings of that body and was responsible for many of the clauses adopted, one of which provided that the number of members of the grand jury should be reduced from sixteen to twelve. In the fall of 1891 he was elected to represent Greenup county in the state legislature and at the close of his first term was returned to the office. He served on many important committees and aided in securing the passage of measures which have since proven of benefit to the commonwealth. The session of 1891 lasted for eighteen months and during that period the old laws were revised to conform with the new constitution. To be continued tomorrow.