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George K. Bennett. It is everywhere acknowledged that keen perception, sound judgment and a determined will, supported by continuous effort, will surely result in success, and the mercantile experience of Mr. Bennett, in Peirce City, fully bears out the truth of this statement, for he is numbered among the substantial business men and enterprising citizens of the town. It was in 1874 that he came to Peirce City and engaged in the drug business, and his reputation in his line of business is second to none in Southwest Missouri. He was born in Putney, Windham Co., Vt., December 20, 1836. His parents, Daniel and Lorinda (Allen) Bennett, were both born in the Green Mountain State. Here he lived until nine years of age, and then went with his parents to New York, and subsequently to Massachusetts, which State was his home for ten years. At the breaking out of the late war he enlisted in the First Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and after serving for sixteen months was commissioned second lieutenant, and assigned to duty in the Thirty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry, and for over four years experienced all the hardships incident to a soldier’s life. He participated in both battles of Bull Run, and was with Banks in his Red River expedition, and was afterward with Sheridan in his Shenandoah Valley campaign. After the war he returned to Massachusetts, where he remained two years, and then went to Faribault, Minn., thence to Sedalia, Mo., where he resided for five years, and was then induced to go to Parsons, Kas., and take charge of a drug store, which he afterward purchased, and removed to Peirce City, as stated above, in 1874. Mr. Bennett is a man of sterling integrity, and nothing can swerve him from what he believes to be right. He was married September 13, 1874, to Hattie Felix, of Missouri, by whom he is the father of one son, Theron.