Butte County
Biographies
ISAAC R. BENNETT
ISAAC R. BENNETT.—A citizen of Butte County who has gained recognition for his fine traits of character and his sturdy manhood, is Isaac R. Bennett, the fourth in the family of eleven children of James Nelson Bennett, whose life history is given on another page of this work. Isaac R. was brought up on the home ranch and educated in the public schools of Nord. Under the direction of his father, he learned farming and stock-raising and worked with him until his death, in 1905, at which time he located on one hundred sixty acres of his own, one and one half miles north of Nord station. Here he has since improved a fine ranch and has engaged in farming and stock-raising, his early training with his father standing him in good stead in his own operations. Besides his own ranch, he leases two hundred forty acres adjoining and has been very successful in raising grain and cattle, usually having about two hundred acres in grain each year.
Mr. Bennett was united in marriage, near Nord, with Miss Blanche Keefer, who was born in Keefer Station, on the Shasta road. She is a daughter of James Keefer, who is mentioned in the sketch of Claude Keefer, in this history. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have had five sons born to them: Chester, Harold, Percy, Leo and Calvin, all at home under the parental roof. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Eagles, and in politics is a Republican.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1156-1157, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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