City: Memphis<\/p>\n
BENNETT, Everett T.<\/strong>, lumberman; born in Boston, Mass., March 18, 1857; reared in Boston, Mass., and educated in the public schools of that city; graduated from the grammar schools in 1871 and the high school in 1875, where he completed his study of books, and then entered a commercial college for a business course; in 1875 he became connected with the firm of William B. Reynolds & Co., lumber dealers, and remained with that company three years, then accepted a position with a lumber firm at Kenton, O., in 1881 he represented the Reynolds Co. at Nashville; in 1886 he went to Fort Smith, Ark., where he superintended the purchase of a lot of walnut lumber; in 1887 he became manager for Cummins Bros.; two years later he went into the Indian Territory with a portable saw mill for the purpose of cutting black walnut timber for export; in 1892 he went to Memphis, and in 1893 he and others formed a stock company and organized the Hardwood Lumber Company, of which he was made manager; three years later he purchased the entire plant and the company became the Bennett Hardwood Lumber Co., of which he is now president; member of Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis BENNETT, Everett T., lumberman; born in Boston, Mass., March 18, 1857; reared in Boston, Mass., and educated in the public schools of that city; graduated from the grammar schools in 1871 and the high school in 1875, where he completed his study of books, and then entered a commercial college for a business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,261,4405,4419],"tags":[1056],"class_list":{"0":"post-6445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-b","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bennett","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8721,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}