Judge Bennett entered upon the study of law at Brownville, N. Y.

The evidence

• “His father being a farmer in comfortable circumstances the son worked at home on the farm, attending the common district school until the fall of 1839, when he commenced attending the Black River Literary and Religious Institute, located at Watertown, N. Y., and prepared for teaching school, which he engaged in that fall, and, from that time until the month of April, 1844, continued attending this school at Watertown, and teaching district and select schools ; he then entered upon the study of law in the office of Western W. ^Vager, at Brownville, in Jefferson Co., N. Y., reading with him about six months. On the 28th day of November, 1844, at Hounsfield, Jefferson Co., N. Y., he was married to Miss Elsie L.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/17-bios-janesville.md, PDF p. 693 / book p. 697

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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