The Newtown bee., 1903-10-30
CIRCULATION :
Ten Pages
New Milford.

WHAT TAYLOR's LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
AND SOUVENIR OF CONNECTICUT
SAYS ABOUT NOBLE BBNN1TT.
Noble Bennitt, of New Milford, al
ways has been resident of the town
he has had the honor to represent in
the General Assembly for two sessions.
He was a popular member of the House
in 1899 and 1908. He is the son OF
Stanley Griswold and Clarissa More
house, Bennitt and was born Novem-
Der l, 1872. Both of his parents passed
to the Great Beyond in his infancy,
leaving him in the care of his uncle
and aunt, Noble S. and Sarah M.
(Morehouse) Bennitt, whose loving
kindness and Christian influence did
much to shape his career as an upright
and prosperous business man. He was
educated in the district school and
spent his boyhood days on farm. At
the age of 16 he entered his uncle's
store in New Milford, as clerk. Three
years later he purchased the business,
which he successfully conducted for
several years. In 1869, at % years of
age, he began to lay the foundation of
his present large business by starting
a retail grain business. Seventeen
years later F. W. Robinson became his
partner and under the firm name of
Bennitt & Robinson the retail business
was continued, land an extensive whole
sale business was established through
out the Eastern states. In 1892, Mr.
Bennitt acquired his partners inter
est, and has since ably conducted the
entire business alone. He has gained
flattering reputation for being "fair
and square," and for the wonderful
promptness with which he delivers
his immense sales, amounting to half
million yearly. In order to success
fully conduct his mammoth trade he
is obliged to handle the output of 10
feed mills in as many different towns
and often is forced to start Others at
short notice, with much profit to all
concerned. Mr. Bennitt has gained
fortune in real estate. He has recent
ly erected fine group of business
blocks in New Milford, to take the
place of those destroyed by fire. Their
total value is about 100000, and the
gross income in the way of rents is
over $40, 900 a year. Through the ex-
cellent example set by Mr. Bennitt the
handsome new buildings on Bank
street were built of brick. In May,
1898, Mr. Bennitt introduced in New
Milford the first acetylene gas plant in
use in the United States, and it is in
successful operation in many of the
large buildings in the town, aside from
stores and houses. On May Is, 1867,
Mr. Bennitt married Martha, daughter
of Henry W. Booth, highly respected
citizen of New Milford, who assembled
above February 10, 1901. They had
one son, Howard, born November %,
1876, and who died three days later.
Mr. Bennitt is an enthusiastic demo-
craft and has been the wide-awake
chairman of its town committee since
1900. He is director of the New
Milford Agricultural Fair AS ISOLATION.
Through his ancestors he is eligible to
join the society of the Colonial Wars,
also the Sons of the Revolution.
Three of his great-great-grand
fathers, Capt Joseph Garfield, Capt
Benjamin Stone and Private Silas
Hill, were soldiers in the Colonial
Wars, and fourth, Capt Isaac Bost-
wick, was all through the American
Revolution, his company being pen
stoned by special act of Congress in
1918, because they were with George
Washington on the night he crossed
the Delaware, December 25, 1776 So
his claim is we'll established to blue
| American blood, descending from such
a Colonial and Revolutionary stock.
Mr. Bennitt is prominent member
of st Johns Episcopal church and
holds the office of vestryman. He is
also member of the Masonic order.
While he gives largely to churches and
charitable societies all is done without
ostentation and hand is always given
to friends in need. lie is model ex-
ample of the great success a person
can attain to by an early training in
industry, integrity and practical
knowledge.
Mr. Bennitt gained large circle OF
close friends at the Capitol, who ad-
mired him for his upright and genial
qualities. He had the honor of serv-
ing on the committee on reception t.
Senator Platt, having charge of the
arrangements for transportation.