San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/8/2009
JOHN LYMAN BENNETT
An enterprising man, the owner of a quarter-section of land eight miles northwest of Stockton on Telegraph Road, John Lyman Bennett has during his twenty-seven years of residence on the ranch made substantial improvements and has just set out a vineyard as well as built a residence and made other improvements. He was born at Poplar Grove, Boone County, Ill., March 31, 1869, a son of Highland Lyman and Ellen (Coleman) Bennett. The father died when John L. was a child, and leaving his native state, he and his mother went to Iowa and then to Dundee, Canada, where his mother taught school, receiving fifteen dollars per month for her work. In this way the two worked their way to California, and in 1875 finally arrived in the Golden State and Mrs. Bennett became a teacher in the San Joaquin County schools, teaching at the Lafayette school one year and the Elkhorn district school two years. Here she was married a second time to T.F. Waller and they engaged in farming in this district until their death. John Lyman received his education in the public schools. From a youth he assisted on the ranch and at the age of twelve years he was driving a six-horse team; later on he was able to buy a place of his own, which consisted of twenty acres, where he raised grain and hogs. In 1895 he purchased his present ranch of 160 acres on the Telegraph Road, known as the old Feimster ranch and by hard work and economy has developed it into a well-improved and highly cultivated tract of land, the rich fields returning to him golden harvests as a reward for his care and cultivation.
Mr. Bennett's marriage occurred in Stockton on November 6, 1897, uniting him with Miss Margaret Walkmeister, born in Switzerland, who came to California with her parents, George and Elizabeth Walkmeister. Mrs. Bennett passed away on July 10, 1918, leaving three children, Lyman F., Neva E. and Erma Ruth. Fraternally Mr. Bennett is a member of the Red Men of Stockton, and politically he is a Republican.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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