Background
Gaitskill, Bennett S. was born on November 12, 1858 in Montgomery Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of Henry and Catherine T. (Branham) Gaitskill.
Gaitskill, Bennett S. was born on November 12, 1858 in Montgomery Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of Henry and Catherine T. (Branham) Gaitskill.
Student Georgetown (Kentucky) College, 1876-1878. Read law with Morton & Parker, Lexington, Kentucky, 1878-1879. Student of University of Virginia Law School, 1878-1881.
Practiced in Girard, since 1882. County attorney Crawford Company, Kansas, 3 terms, 1888-1892 and 1898-1900.
Each person is responsible before God for his or her own understanding of the Bible and is encouraged to work out his or her salvation with fear and trembling.
Mason.
Married Belle Ennis, July 12, 1892.