J. W. Bennett
J. W. Bennett conducts the principal undertaking and embalming business at Lima and is a veteran in this business, although he has been located in Lima only about four years. He is a son of Henry Bennett, a prosperous farmer of Medina County, Ohio, where our subject was born in 1869. After finishing his schooling, he became a teacher in his native county and for five years was a very successful one; but desiring a more permanent occupation and one in which he could engage throughout the entire year he went to Wellington, Lorain County, and opened a furniture store in connection with which he had an undertaking department. In order to perfect himself in this work he took lessons in embalming and received diplomas from Professor Myers, of Springfield, Ohio, and from Prof. Charles A. Renoaurd, of New York City. In 1901 he moved his business to Lima and now has the largest establishment of the kind in this part of the State. He is a member of the National Funeral Directors' Association and president of the Ohio Funeral Directors' and Embalers' Association, keeping in close touch with all the latest developments and discoveries in his particular line of work.
Mr. Bennett was married in 1890 to Ida Bauer, daughter of Jacob Bauer, of Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio. Their family consists of three bright children. They are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church and are earnest workers in that body. Fraternally Mr. Bennett is connected with the Masonic order, Elks, Odd Fellows, Modern Woodmen of America and Woodmen of the World.