Milo Lyman Bennett

Milo Lyman Bennett (May 28, 1789 – July 7, 1868) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Biography

He was born in Sharon, Connecticut on May 28, 1789, the son of Edmund Bennett (d. 1829) and Mary (Gillet) Bennett (d. 1828).[1] He was educated in Connecticut, and attended Williams College for two years.[2] He graduated from Yale College in 1811, and his classmates included Roger Sherman Baldwin, Ralph Emerson, Henry Collins Flagg, Francis Granger, Levinus Monson, Sidney Edwards Morse, Samuel S. Phelps, Joseph Spencer, Selah B. Strong, Frederick A. Tallmadge, and Joseph Emerson Worcester.[3] He studied at the Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the bar, and settled in Vermont.[4]

He served as State's Attorney of Bennington County for from 1821 to 1822, and in 1833.[1] From 1824 to 1828 he was Bennington County's probate court judge.[1] He moved to Maine in 1836 to pursue a business opportunity involving speculation on undeveloped timber lands, but moved back to Vermont two years later.[4]

In 1839, he became one of the Associate Justices of the Vermont Supreme Court, and he served until 1849.[1] He was a circuit court judge from 1851 to 1852.[1] In 1852 he returned to the Supreme Court, and served until 1859.[1] Judge Bennett received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth College in 1851.[4]

In 1859, he was appointed as one of the commissioners to revise and publish the state statutes.[4]

Death and burial

He died in Taunton, Massachusetts on July 7, 1868, aged 78, while on a visit to his son.[4] He was first buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Burlington (then called Locust Street Cemetery),[5] and later re-interred at Burlington's Lakeview Cemetery.[6][7]

Family

Bennett was married to Adeline Hatch Bennett (1798-1867).[1] They were the parents of Edmund Hatch Bennett, an attorney in Taunton, Massachusetts who served as mayor, judge of probate for Bristol County, Massachusetts, and dean of the Boston University Law School.[8]

References
  1. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1912). Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College. 6. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. pp. 373–374.
  2. General Catalogue of the Non-graduates of Williams College, 1797-1910. Williamstown, MA: Williams College. 1910. p. 8.
  3. Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University, 1701-1895. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press. 1895. pp. 60–61.
  4. "Death of Hon. M. L. Bennett". Green Mountain Freeman. Montpelier, VT. July 15, 1868. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Respect to the memory of Judge Bennett". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, VT. July 10, 1868. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Milo Lyman Bennett at Find a Grave
  7. Conley, Edward B. Burlington (VT) City Clerk (November 2, 1921). "Vermont Vital Records, 1720-1908, Burial Record for Milo L. Bennett". Ancestry.com. Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com LLC. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  8. "Who Lies Here: Edmund Hatch Bennett, Taunton's first mayor". Taunton Daily Gazette. Taunton Daily Gazette. April 22, 2012.

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