EDWIN F. BENNETT.

    Edwin F. Bennett was the third in point of age. He was educated in the public schools of Rawlins and following his graduation from the high school he entered his father’s employ and was associated with him in business until his father’s death. He has since purchased and conducted the business on his own account and is today the pioneer merchant of Rawlins. He has a large and well appointed establishment, carrying an extensive line of shelf and heavy hardware, and his reasonable prices, his honorable dealing and his efforts to please his patrons are the salient features in his growing success.
    On the 3d of August, 1905, Mr. Bennett was united in marriage to Miss Kathryn Roberts, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Roberts, who were early settlers of Rawlins, the father conducting the Rawlins Stock Yards. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett have become the parents of two daughters: Winifred Kathryn, who was born in Rawlins, August 15, 1909; and Cecil Alice, born March 12, 1912.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are members of the Presbyterian church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful interest. He is serving as one of its trustees and he is also the president and manager of the Rawlins General Hospital. He is interested in all those forces which work for the benefit of the community and the uplift of the individual and in his life he exemplifies the spirit of the Masonic fraternity, of which he is a representative. He likewise holds membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His political endorsement is given to the republican party but he has never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon business affairs, which he is wisely and carefully conducting. It is true that he entered upon a business already established but many a man of less resolute spirit would have failed to carry it forward to successful completion. He has met competition by honorable methods and has put forth every possible effort to please his patrons, recognizing the fact that satisfied customers are the best advertisement. Public opinion classes him with the representative citizens and valued merchants of his community, his influence always being on the side of progress along material, intellectual, social, political and moral lines.


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