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Dr John “Father” Benjamin

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Dr John “Father” Benjamin

Birth
England
Death
10 Oct 1902 (aged 79)
McLeod County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Hutchinson, McLeod County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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John was born to parents Robert and Sarah (Perry) and educated in England including college in Liverpool. He left for the US on April 22, 1849 and arrived in Boston a month later and located quickly to Rockford, IL. He moved to St Paul, MN and then to Hutchinson, MN during 1857. There, he built a house and had his family join him.

He married Elizabeth T Garner, daughter of Joseph and Mary A (Taylor), native of England, on June 5, 1851. The couple had 9 children:
Anna
Robert G
John F
Gridley W (died due to exposure during the Indian attack of 1862)
Louisa
Olive E
Albert Byron (drowned in the Hassan river above Hutchinson, June 8, 1881)
Arthur E
Winifred

Dr Benjamin and his family saw atrocities during the Indian attack of 1862. He and his family made it to the Chesley house in Hutchinson, an early defense prior to building the stockade. He was appointed Surgeon in Chief of the Stockade/Post and attended to all of the wounded including Stout's men who battled the Indians at Acton. Dr. Benjamin also recorded much of the record of the activities of the hospital (moved from the hotel into the stockade for safety after the attack began) with detail.

"Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota" 1888.
John was born to parents Robert and Sarah (Perry) and educated in England including college in Liverpool. He left for the US on April 22, 1849 and arrived in Boston a month later and located quickly to Rockford, IL. He moved to St Paul, MN and then to Hutchinson, MN during 1857. There, he built a house and had his family join him.

He married Elizabeth T Garner, daughter of Joseph and Mary A (Taylor), native of England, on June 5, 1851. The couple had 9 children:
Anna
Robert G
John F
Gridley W (died due to exposure during the Indian attack of 1862)
Louisa
Olive E
Albert Byron (drowned in the Hassan river above Hutchinson, June 8, 1881)
Arthur E
Winifred

Dr Benjamin and his family saw atrocities during the Indian attack of 1862. He and his family made it to the Chesley house in Hutchinson, an early defense prior to building the stockade. He was appointed Surgeon in Chief of the Stockade/Post and attended to all of the wounded including Stout's men who battled the Indians at Acton. Dr. Benjamin also recorded much of the record of the activities of the hospital (moved from the hotel into the stockade for safety after the attack began) with detail.

"Illustrated Album of Biography of Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota" 1888.

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Dr died in Hassan Valley Township per county death records, book C

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