Milo Lyman Bennett (May 28, 1789 – July 7, 1868) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the

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Biography

He was born in Sharon, Connecticut on May 28, 1789, the son of Edmund Bennett (d. 1829) and Mary (Gillet) Bennett (d. 1828). He was educated in Connecticut, and attended

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for two years. He graduated from

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in 1811, and his classmates included Roger Sherman Baldwin, Ralph Emerson, Henry Collins Flagg,

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, Levinus Monson, Sidney Edwards Morse, Samuel S. Phelps,

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, and Joseph Emerson Worcester. He studied at the Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the bar, and settled in

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. He served as

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of Bennington County for from 1821 to 1822, and in 1833. From 1824 to 1828 he was Bennington County's probate court judge. 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. In 1839, he became one of the Associate Justices of the

, and he served until 1849. He was a circuit court judge from 1851 to 1852. In 1852 he returned to the Supreme Court, and served until 1859. Judge Bennett received the

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of LL.D. from

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in 1851. In 1859, he was appointed as one of the commissioners to revise and publish the state statutes.

Death and burial

He died in

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

Family

Bennett was married to Adeline Hatch Bennett (1798-1867). They were the parents of Edmund Hatch Bennett, an attorney in

who served as mayor, judge of probate for

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, and dean of the

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References

External links

Milo Lyman Bennett
at the ''Litchfield Ledger''. Litchfield Historical Society. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bennett, Milo Lyman 1789 births 1868 deaths Williams College alumni Yale College alumni Litchfield Law School alumni People from Sharon, Connecticut Politicians from Burlington, Vermont Vermont lawyers State's attorneys in Vermont Vermont state court judges Justices of the Vermont Supreme Court Burials at Lakeview Cemetery (Burlington, Vermont) 19th-century American judges 19th-century American lawyers