Walter Scott Benton and Emma Prouse Benton

 

Funds to build the library were donated by Emma Prouse Benton as a memorial to her husband Walter Benton and by A. Barton Hepburn

He could possibly be the Walter Benton in this Rootsweb entry - family lived in Canton for some time:

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=spaceman34&id=I11209

The Canton Library has an excellent article on Walter Benton's life on their web site under Historical Scrapbooks   from the Plaindealer dated Aug 4, 1908(use search to find it). It said his father was a carpenter, and they settled at Wallace Mill near the Brick Chapel.  He started working in his father's mill at the age of 14, went to Potsdam Academy for a short time and then went West to Illinois, then to Chicago to work in a lumber yard.  After this he spent 1 year in Missouri, drifted to Leavenworth Kansas and joined a party to go to Pikes Peak, Colorado with a portable saw mill. From there he moved to Helena, Montana where he built a saw mill and bought cattle.  He came back east, married Emma Prouse from Heuvelton and then moved to Anamosa, Iowa where he bought another saw mill and built a little fortune. From there he moved to Minneapolis and invested in a Linseed Oil Company.

1920 Canton Census: has Jay W Benton 42, born in Iowa, father from  Vt, Mother from NY - Proprietor of Dry Goods Store, living at 11 Elms Street, wife Isabel 32, daughter Katherine 3

1870 Anamosa - Fairview township, Iowa Census:  Walter S Benton 36, Lumber Merchant b Vt, Emma 25 b England.  Next entry Harlan (or Harlow) P Benton- clerk in Lumber yard, Melinda 16, Ben(?) 2, Irene May 5 months  and Frank Prouse 20.

1880 Cass Jones Iowa Census:  has Rimmon S. Benton 47 born NY, his father was born in Vt, Amy Benton 34 born NY, Jay W Benton 4

Rimmon S Benton has a brother Walter S Benton.  Click on the Rootsweb link above.  They were from Weybridge Vt or Shoreham Vt and moved to Canton in the 1840s.

Note: by 1870, Stephen S is a schoolteacher in Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg) with family and there is a Benjamin S, 59 , B Vt & family living in Parishville.

Stephen S Benton & family graves, Hillcrest Cemetery Ogdensburg: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Hillcrest/Hillcrest_a.HTM

1860 Census:

Pierrepont - Hiram Benton, 36 Farmer from Vt & family pg 495

Ogdensburg: JH Benton, 31, Surgeon & Physician b NY pg 284 (not sure if he is related). Born in Oxbow Antwerp -  son of Dr. Charles Carroll Benton.

Oswegatchie (Heuvelton) -  John Prouse - pg 387, daughter Emma pg 388

From:   "Our County & Its People" - D. Mason - 1894 - pg 21

"Joseph Benton, Heuvelton, native of Vt, came to Canton in  1842 - engaged in Contracting & building.  He owned a saw mill near the brick shops and purchased a farm....raised a family of 10 children.  SS. Born in Vt in Oct 13, 1838.... taught school for 29 terms after which he engaged in the mercantile business ....  owned a grocery store in Heuvelton"

1850 Canton, NY Census(109):

Joseph Benton 49, b Vt, Carpenter; Jane Ann, 39,F; H.B, 25, M; Helen or Hilen, 19 F; Rimon, 17, M;  Walter S, 14, M; Stephen S, 11, M ; Harlow? P, 9, m, Anna s 3, F; Mercy L Read, 10, F

Note: 1848 Franklin T Benton marries Cirmanda Belding, both of Canton http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/MISC/Vital%20Records/1848_canton_marr.HTM

Note: Marriage in 1849 of Joseph Benton, then 48 from Canton, to Jane Pangborn, 39 from Shoram Vt. by Rev M Goodrich, Sheldon Vt. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/MISC/Vital%20Records/1849_canton_marr.HTM

Note:  1849 Marriage of Sarah Benton 21, Canton to John W Holada, 27, Shoram Vt by Rev R Pettibone

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stlawgen/MISC/Vital%20Records/1849_canton_marr.HTM

Ogdensburg Advance 1891:

 

Ogdensburg Advance 1915:

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1932

Canton Plaindealer 1908

 

 

Canton Plaindealer 1942

Brick Church Cemetery (from Anne Cady's site):

Benton
Benton Monument
Joseph Benton, d. Oct 26, 1861 Age 61 yrs; Father (Section 6)
Anna, his wife, d. Oct 12, 1846 AE 44 yrs; Mother (Section 6)

 

St. Lawrence Plaindealer - 1906 (Mrs Benton in Oakland during the great San Francisco Earthquake):

 

 

St. Lawrence Plaindealer Aug. 8,1911:

 

 

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Now this is very interesting:

I haven't proven the Benton family connection yet between Col. Zebulon Benton and Walter Benton but I will keep looking....

 

Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon's Brother), Col. Zebulon Benton, Caroline Charlotte Bonaparte Benton:

http://www.edgewoodplacebb.com/html/loonldgr/hist/kings5.html

and

http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/c_joseph1.html

and

http://genealogy.euweb.cz/bonapart/bonaparte.html

and

Benton House Oxbow  http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/benton/benton.php

Lake Bonaparte 1905