Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 25 February 2005

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BENEDICT G. SCHENCK, farmer: P. O. Franklin; son of Garett and Mary P. (Plume) Schenck; was born in Franklin Oct. 16, 1818. He was educated in the common schools of the village. In 1836, he entered the Pleasant Hill Academy, north of Cincinnati, now known as College Hill; he attended three years, and then returned to Franklin and entered his brother-in-law's general store, where he remained two years. He was married, in. 1841, to Phoebe J., daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Willimpe Du Bois, natives of Monmouth Co., N. J., who emigrated here about 1806; his grandfather, Rev. William Schenck, was born at Monmouth, N. J., in 1740, graduated at Princeton College and studied for the ministry under Dr. Dennant; he preached seven years at Freehold, N. J.; was driven thence by the Revolution to Bucks Co., Penn.; thence moved to Pittsgrove, N. J., where he preached eight years; from there he went to Ballston, N. Y., where he preached seven years; thence to Huntington, L. I., where he remained twenty-five years. Oct. 20, 1817, he came to Franklin, where he died Sept. 1. 1823, at the ripe age of 83 years; his father was Courtinas Schenck. his mother Mary Conover; Benjamin, youngest son of Dominie, Mr. Schenck's wife's father, was born in Monmouth Co., N. J.; was married to Willimpe, daughter of Peter and Jane (Williamson) Van Dorn; married Feb. 16, 1803; when a boy, he boarded for a time in the family of Peter Van Dorn (afterward his father-in-law); attended school in an academy some three miles distant; finishing his course there, he then studied medicine under Dr. Timbrooke, it is supposed; be then attended medical lectures at New Brunswick, graduating and receiving diploma May 5, 1801; he also attended lectures in New York City; practiced medicine in New Jersey till 1805, when he emigrated to Franklin in company with his brother Daniel and wife, his sister Margaret and husband, and Tunis Vanderveer; they moved in farm wagons; upon reaching the Ohio River, they shipped on board flat-boats as far as Cincinnati, and were