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D. J. BENNETT, a well-to-do and enterprising citizen of Grass Township, was born on the 2d day of August, 1843, his parents both being natives of Ohio. Raised on a farm to years of maturity, he secured a limited education from the surrounding district schools, and at the age of twenty years began life’s battle on his own responsibility. In 1865 the second important event in his life occurred, being his marriage with Catharine Allen, an estimable and highly respected lady, by whom he is the father of a family of eight children, whose names are as follows, beginning with the eldest: George W. S., Henry Harrison, Phebe Jane, John F., Edward A., Stephen, Charles Clinton and Catharine. Mr. Bennett has passed the greater portion of his life thus far engaged in agricultural pursuits, and although he is not extremely wealthy in this world’s goods, he has a comfortable and happy home, which has been secured entirely by himself and wife, and what is far more desirable and commendable, an honored name and umblemished reputation. He is a Democrat in politics, a good neighbor, and always extends a helping hand to laudable public enterprises.