Member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, he was a 1907 graduate of Salt Lake City High School, 1911 graduate of Utah School of Mines, 1911-14 Snow-Moody Development Company,Oregon Short Line Railroad, US Fuel Co and Utah Fuel Co, 1914-15 Imperial Irrigation District El Centro, CA, 1915 Ohio Copper Mine, Bingham, UT, 1917-18 Superintendent, Bullwacker Mine, Butte, MT.
Ben married Hazel Reilly December 30, 1911. In the early 1930's many of the mines in the US closed so Benere looked abroad for employment. In 1932 Benere and Hazal moved to Irkutsk, a mining town near Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia and worked there for 5 years. In 1937 they moved to Malaysia (then called the Federated Malay States) to work the tin mines. Benere made it back home on one of the last passenger ships sailing from Malaya before the Japanese invasion of the Malay peninsula on Dec. 8, 1941. Back in the US he discovered that the mining technology he learned before the war had become obsolete so he couldn't find work in the mining industry. Eventually he found a job in Southern California with the Pacific Electric Railway Company working as a supervisor on the Red car commuter trains running in and out of Los Angeles. He stayed employed there until his retirement in 1954.
Although he rarely talked about them, Benere's ancestors were Mormons, seven of them accompanied Brigham Young in the great migration west to Salt Lake City in 1847 and an Uncle, Heber Grant, was the longest serving president of the Mormon Church.
Ben married Hazel Reilly December 30, 1911. In the early 1930's many of the mines in the US closed so Benere looked abroad for employment. In 1932 Benere and Hazal moved to Irkutsk, a mining town near Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia and worked there for 5 years. In 1937 they moved to Malaysia (then called the Federated Malay States) to work the tin mines. Benere made it back home on one of the last passenger ships sailing from Malaya before the Japanese invasion of the Malay peninsula on Dec. 8, 1941. Back in the US he discovered that the mining technology he learned before the war had become obsolete so he couldn't find work in the mining industry. Eventually he found a job in Southern California with the Pacific Electric Railway Company working as a supervisor on the Red car commuter trains running in and out of Los Angeles. He stayed employed there until his retirement in 1954.
Although he rarely talked about them, Benere's ancestors were Mormons, seven of them accompanied Brigham Young in the great migration west to Salt Lake City in 1847 and an Uncle, Heber Grant, was the longest serving president of the Mormon Church.
Member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, he was a 1907 graduate of Salt Lake City High School, 1911 graduate of Utah School of Mines, 1911-14 Snow-Moody Development Company,Oregon Short Line Railroad, US Fuel Co and Utah Fuel Co, 1914-15 Imperial Irrigation District El Centro, CA, 1915 Ohio Copper Mine, Bingham, UT, 1917-18 Superintendent, Bullwacker Mine, Butte, MT.
Ben married Hazel Reilly December 30, 1911. In the early 1930's many of the mines in the US closed so Benere looked abroad for employment. In 1932 Benere and Hazal moved to Irkutsk, a mining town near Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia and worked there for 5 years. In 1937 they moved to Malaysia (then called the Federated Malay States) to work the tin mines. Benere made it back home on one of the last passenger ships sailing from Malaya before the Japanese invasion of the Malay peninsula on Dec. 8, 1941. Back in the US he discovered that the mining technology he learned before the war had become obsolete so he couldn't find work in the mining industry. Eventually he found a job in Southern California with the Pacific Electric Railway Company working as a supervisor on the Red car commuter trains running in and out of Los Angeles. He stayed employed there until his retirement in 1954.
Although he rarely talked about them, Benere's ancestors were Mormons, seven of them accompanied Brigham Young in the great migration west to Salt Lake City in 1847 and an Uncle, Heber Grant, was the longest serving president of the Mormon Church.
Ben married Hazel Reilly December 30, 1911. In the early 1930's many of the mines in the US closed so Benere looked abroad for employment. In 1932 Benere and Hazal moved to Irkutsk, a mining town near Lake Baikal in Siberian Russia and worked there for 5 years. In 1937 they moved to Malaysia (then called the Federated Malay States) to work the tin mines. Benere made it back home on one of the last passenger ships sailing from Malaya before the Japanese invasion of the Malay peninsula on Dec. 8, 1941. Back in the US he discovered that the mining technology he learned before the war had become obsolete so he couldn't find work in the mining industry. Eventually he found a job in Southern California with the Pacific Electric Railway Company working as a supervisor on the Red car commuter trains running in and out of Los Angeles. He stayed employed there until his retirement in 1954.
Although he rarely talked about them, Benere's ancestors were Mormons, seven of them accompanied Brigham Young in the great migration west to Salt Lake City in 1847 and an Uncle, Heber Grant, was the longest serving president of the Mormon Church.
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