Bennett, Joseph W.

Born: 1806-XX-XX Kentucky

Died: 1874-XX-XX Sangamon County, Illinois

Flourished: 1840-1874 Springfield, Illinois

Bennett married Elizabeth M. Edler in 1834 in Morgan County, Illinois. They settled in Springfield, Illinois, where Bennett was a brick mason. Politically, Bennett was a Whig.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Morgan County, 1 April 1834, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Sangamon County, IL, 196; People v. Jones & Lucas, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=141049; Illinois Journal (Springfield), 29 October 1874, 4:5; Whig City Meeting.