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Benton, Joel was born on May 29, 1832 in Amenia, New York, United States.
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Joel Benton
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Benton was born in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York. He worked as a teacher, writer and lecturer. As well as producing poetry, he wrote Emerson As A Poet (1882), The Truth About Protection (1892), Greeley on Lincoln (1893), In the Poe Circle (1899) and The Life of Phineas T. Barnum.
He died in 1911 in Poughkeepsie.
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