Butte County
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JESSE BENNETT
JESSE BENNETT.—As might be expected of one who has spent his entire life in California, Jesse Bennett is a patriotic son of the Golden State, and ardently champions all measures looking towards the development of the commonwealth. He was born in Butte County, on August 26, 1877, a son of the late James Nelson Bennett, who is mentioned on another page of this work. Jesse Bennett was reared to the life of a farmer, and early learned the details of successful farming and how to care for stock. He attended the public schools in his home district and when not in school was employed on the ranch with his father and brothers. At the time of the death of his father, in 1905, Jesse Bennett located on his present ranch of one hundred sixty acres near Anita station, besides which he leases some nineteen hundred acres in the vicinity. On this extensive tract he raises about a thousand acres of grain each year, using a sixty-horse-power Hold tracklayer caterpillar tractor, and a Best combined harvester, together with four eight-mule teams, to facilitate the putting in and harvesting of his crops. To add to his annual income, Mr. Bennett is raising and feeding high-grade Shorthorn Durham cattle, and pure-bred Duroc-Jersey hogs. Besides his home ranch he owns range land in Tehama County where he runs his cattle.
In Sacramento, occurred the marriage of Jesse Bennett with Miss Etta Burger, who was a native of Oregon but reared in Mendocino County, Cal. Their home has been brightened by the birth of one child, Carol. Mr. Bennett was made a Mason in Chico Lodge, No. 111, F. & A. M., and, with Mrs. Bennett, a member of Josephine Chapter, No. 104, O. E. S. He is also a member of Chico Lodge, No. 423, B. P. O. Elks. Mr. Bennett is prominent in financial circles, and is one of the original stockholders and a director in the People’s Commercial and Savings Bank of Chico. He is interested in all projects that have for their aim the development of Butte County and the Sacramento Valley, where he is well and favorably known.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of Butte
County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1170,
Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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