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LYMAN BENNETT, justice of the peace and a large hardware dealer of the village of Ripley, is a son of Lyman, Sr. and Chloe (Wood) Bennett, and was born at the village of Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, June 15, 1838. Benjamin Bennett (paternal grandfather) was a native of Connecticut from which he removed to the town of Milton, in Saratoga county, where he remained until 1828, when he came to the town of Ripley in which he died in 1841. He was a blacksmith by trade, served as an orderly sergeant in the Revolutionary war and married Eunice Ferry, by whom he had three children, one of whom, Truman, was killed in the war of 1812. David Wood, (maternal grandfather) was a farmer and resided in Saratoga county where he died. He was a soldier of the war of 1812 and married Drucy Jennings, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. Lyman Bennett, Sr., was born in Saratoga county in 1798 and removed in 1828 to Chautauqua county where he died in the town of Ripley, April 7, 1855. A carpenter by trade and a farmer by occupation, he was a democrat in politics and a universalist in religion. He held several town offices during his life-time and married Chloe Wood, who was born in October, 1802. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters. Of the former one died at 10 years of age, the second, David W., is a retired farmer of Ripley, and the other is the subject of this sketch.

Lyman Bennett received his education at the Ripley High school and for several years after leaving school was engaged in teaching during the winter and farming during the summer seasons. In 1875 he engaged in the general mercantile business which he followed for fourteen years and then established his present hardware store. He carries a first-class stock of everything in his line of trade and enjoys a large patronage. Mr. Bennett is a democrat and has served as a justice of the peace continuously for the last ten years, besides having held the office of supervisor of his town for four years. He is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 219, Free and Accepted Masons, of Westfield, and ranks high as a successful business man.

On October 1st, 1866, he united in marriage with Eliza Hall, a daughter of George J. Hall, and to their union were born two children: Bertha E. and George H.