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Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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law reporter and editorialwriter from its foundation to the death of Henry J. Raymond.For five years he was president of the Board of Elections inBrooklyn. He is a director of the Lawyers Surety Company;president of the Gates Avenue Homeopathic Dispensary, Brook-lyn; a trustee of the Adelphi College and Academy since 1869,and of the Central Congregational Church since 1882; a prizecommissioner of the port of New York since 1885; a member ofthe Hamilton Club; a member of the college fraternity of SigmaPhi, and president of its incorporated society; a member of theNew England Society of Brooklyn, and its president in 1893-94,and a director since 1890; president of the Brooklyn Society ofYermonters in 1891-92, and president of the Republican Leagueof Brooklyn in 1896. He received the degree of M. A. in 1851,and that of LL. D. in 1891, from the University of Vermont.Mr. Benedict was married, on March 2, 1854, to Frances A.Weaver of Winooski Falls, Vermont, and has two sons and adaughter.
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WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT rjlHE legendary British Hon has well been said to have-L his realization in the metaphorical dogs of Devon. Thelatter phrase has long been historic. The strength of the mastiffand the unyielding courage and persistence of the bulldog aretypical of the spirit of Devonshire men, who, in many a crucialencounter, have proved themselves a bulwark of the Britishthrone and of the Anglo-Saxon race. It was men of Bide-ford in Devon who, when assailed by overwhelming numbersof foemen, . . . shook em off as a dog that shakes his earsWhen he leaps from the water to the land. Whether in martial guise bound Westward ho ! from Bide-ford, or from Plymouth seeking freedom to worship God, themen of Devon have unerringly reached their goal and made theirmark. It was in Devonshire that the Bennett family had its rise, andthat it long dwelt and developed the characteristics that madefor high success in every lawful undertaking. Thence some ofits members removed to Scotland, to be imb

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