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Josiah Benton was born on August 4, 1843, in Addisona, Vermont, United States, the son of Josiah Henry and Martha (Danforth) Benton. He was descendant of Andrew Benton who came from England about 1630 and settled in Milford, Connecticut.
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Josiah Benton was born on August 4, 1843, in Addisona, Vermont, United States, the son of Josiah Henry and Martha (Danforth) Benton. He was descendant of Andrew Benton who came from England about 1630 and settled in Milford, Connecticut.
Josiah was educated in the common schools and at Bradford Academy, and at the New London Literary and Scientific Institute. He graduated from the Albany Law School in 1866.
When nineteen Benton became a private in Company H of the 12th Vermont Volunteers, serving from August 1862 to July 1863 in the Civil War. He was admitted to the New Hampshire bar on May 5 of the same year. From 1866 to 1872 he carried on a successful law practise in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He was assistant clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1868, and clerk of that body in 1870 and 1872; in 1869 he was private secretary to the governor of New Hampshire.
Benton settled in Boston in 1872, and was actively identified from that time with the development of the city. He served as counsel for the Old Colony Railroad and allied companies, until the lease of those properties to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, when he became the Massachusetts counsel for that corporation. In 1879 he became a director of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire.
Benton lectured on corporations and railroad law at the Law School of Boston University for twenty years. In 1894 he became a member of the board of trustees of the Boston Public Library, giving conspicuous service as president of the board during the last nine years of his life. From 1909 to 1913 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts State Library. From 1910 to 1917 he was a trustee of Boston University. Throughout his life he collected editions of the English Prayer Book and related material to show its origin and growth. At his death this unique and valuable collection of six hundred and twenty-one items was bequeathed to the Boston Public Library. He died in 1917.
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On May 19, 1866, Josiah Benton married Josephine Emery Aldrich, who died on April 8, 1872, and on September 2, 1875, he married Mary Elizabeth Abbott.