Biographies
CHARLES H. BENSON
CHARLES H. BENSON,
Our subject was
early thrown upon his own resources.
After completing his schooling he first started out as a grocery clerk,
then operator and agent on various railroads for many years, mostly in the
employ of the Central Pacific system.
Later he became the employee of the North Pacific Railroad Company, as
an agent, and following this he traveled for a time through the Northwest,
finally bringing up at
Politically Mr. Benson is a staunch Republican, and was elected to the important position he now occupies in 1890. He is a man of ability and many sterling qualities, and has the confidence of the community in which he resides, and also the respect of a wide circle of friends. In gaining his present position he has had to confront the fact that he was almost unknown throughout the county; but he received the unanimous vote of the nominating convention, and single-handed he defeated a man who held the office for three successive terms, and was very popular.
Socially he affiliates with the N. S. G. W., and also is allied with the Sons and Daughters’ Society of Pioneers.
Henry A. Benson is
a member of the Pioneer Society of Alameda and Contra Costa counties, having
arrived in
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by Cathi Skyles.
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