My Genealogy Hound

DANIEL BENNETT, glass-manufacturer, Carrick, was born April 12, 1815, at Stapehill, England, a son of Daniel and Martha (Webster) Bennett, former of whom was a local minister of the M. E. Church for more than fifty years, and exerted a powerful influence for good. Daniel Bennett, whose name heads this memoir, emigrated to America in 1841 with his wife, Catherine Bates, and two children, Mark J. and Ely. He had learned the potter’s trade in England, and shortly after his arrival here, in partnership with his brothers, James, Edwin and William, he operated the first successful pottery in East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1844 the same firm started a second pottery on the South Side, and conducted it successfully until it finally became converted into the Crystal Glass company, of which Mr. Bennett is president. After the death of his first wife he married Ann Burgess, and their children are Howard and Albert D.; his third marriage was with Phoebe Burgess. Mr. Bennett is a member of the M. E. Church, and has been an active worker in both church and Sabbath-school, having been superintendent of the latter. Mrs. Bennett is a member of the Presbyterian Church.