Brown, Bennett B.

Bennet B. Brown was a typesetter, Whig, Presbyterian, and advocate of temperance. He worked as a typesetter for the Illinois Daily Journal, and was involved in a variety of social, religious, and political organizations in Springfield, Illinois in the 1850s. He was an officer in the local Temple of Honor temperance organization as well as the Sangamon division of the Sons of Temperance. In July 1852, he was appointed secretary of the Whigs of Springfield, then elected vice president of the organization, which was known thereafter as the Springfield Scott Club. In 1853, he was also appointed to a committee for the Young Men's Christian Association organized by the Reverend James Smith of the town's First Presbyterian Church.

Illinois Daily Journal (Springfield), 8 May 1852, 2:2; 14 May 1852, 3:1; 6 July 1852, 2:3-4; 13 July 1852, 3:2; 25 October 1852, 3:1; 18 June 1853, 2:2; Samuel F. Cary, ed., The American Temperance Magazine, and Sons of Temperance Offering (New York: R. Van Dien, 1851), 1:299.