Background
Benken, Eugene Edwin was born on December 9, 1889 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of Eugene Edwin and Effie (Strobhar) Benken.
Benken, Eugene Edwin was born on December 9, 1889 in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Son of Eugene Edwin and Effie (Strobhar) Benken.
Graduate Walton School Commerce, Chicago, 1924. Bachelor of Laws, Blackstone College Law, 1935.
Accounting department Southern Cotton Oil Corporation, Savannah, 1911-1924. Certified public accountant, Savannah, from 1925. Admitted to Georgia bar, 1936.
Practice law, Savannah, from 1937.
Partner Thompson & Benken, from 1967.
The bread and cup during Holy Communion symbolizes the broken body and shed blood of Christ that he offered for people the same way as he did for the disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.
Member Civil Service Board City of Savannah. Served in Armed Forces, World War I. Certified Public Accountants, Georgia, Indiana, Tennessee. Member American Institute Certified Public Accountants’s, Georgia Society Certified Public Accountants’s (vice president 1930-1931), Georgia Association Attorney-Certified Public Accountants’s, American Georgia, Savannah bar associations, Telfair Academy Arts and Sciences, South.R. (treasurer, board of managers), American Legion, South Carolina.V., Georgia History Society, Society Colonial Wars.
Mason (32 degree, Shriner), Elk.
Married Elsie Ehler, September 15, 1932.