HANNAH C. BENNETT, M. D., wife of Felix C. Bennett, is a daughter of John and Hannah (Rolfe) Russell, and granddaughter of Richard Russell and of Thomas and Nancy (Bailey) Rolfe. She has won a high standing in the City of Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin, where she has lived for many years. The novelty of a woman physician may have served to attract attention in the early days, but her modest and unassuming character, genuine worth, and thorough mastery of her profession, command the confidence and trust of the public to a marked degree.
John Russell and his wife were natives of Kent, England, and when they emigrated to this country in 1850, were accompanied by their six children, born in England. They located in Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where they had one child born to them. Their children were: Sarah, wife of George Hall of Rio, Wis.; Matilda, wife of George Greengo of Sussex; Dr. Hannah C.; Mary, widow of Owen Cordy, of near Cambria, Wis.; John, of Cambria; Rolfe of Waukesha; and Catherine , who died at the age of twenty-four.
The father was a boot and shoemaker, and died in Sussex in 1883, aged seventy-four years. His wife died in 1888, aged seventy-six. They were Episcopalians. His father, Richard Russell, died in England when sixty years of age; he had ten children. He was an overseer and a lumber lawyer. Thomas Rolfe, the father of Hannah, mentioned above, was a farmer, and died in England, aged eighty six years. He had six children.
Dr. Hannah C. (Russell) Bennett attended the common school at Sussex, and later was a student at Carroll College, Waukesha. She secured a good education and taught school for ten years. About this time her attention was turned to the field that opened before women in the practice of medicine, and feeling some natural adaptation to the profession, she took up the study of that science, and was graduated from the Women's Medical College in Chicago in 1876. Her own home became the field of her first practice after her graduation, and there the doctor was engaged for five years.
In 1881, Dr. Russell came to Monroe, and here she has been continuously engaged in her profession to the present time. She married Felix C. Bennett in March 1882, and finds in her gifted and successful husband a noble associate in making life useful and helpful to the world.
~from the Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and LaFayette, Wisconsin, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., published 1901., p332-3.
John Russell and his wife were natives of Kent, England, and when they emigrated to this country in 1850, were accompanied by their six children, born in England. They located in Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where they had one child born to them. Their children were: Sarah, wife of George Hall of Rio, Wis.; Matilda, wife of George Greengo of Sussex; Dr. Hannah C.; Mary, widow of Owen Cordy, of near Cambria, Wis.; John, of Cambria; Rolfe of Waukesha; and Catherine , who died at the age of twenty-four.
The father was a boot and shoemaker, and died in Sussex in 1883, aged seventy-four years. His wife died in 1888, aged seventy-six. They were Episcopalians. His father, Richard Russell, died in England when sixty years of age; he had ten children. He was an overseer and a lumber lawyer. Thomas Rolfe, the father of Hannah, mentioned above, was a farmer, and died in England, aged eighty six years. He had six children.
Dr. Hannah C. (Russell) Bennett attended the common school at Sussex, and later was a student at Carroll College, Waukesha. She secured a good education and taught school for ten years. About this time her attention was turned to the field that opened before women in the practice of medicine, and feeling some natural adaptation to the profession, she took up the study of that science, and was graduated from the Women's Medical College in Chicago in 1876. Her own home became the field of her first practice after her graduation, and there the doctor was engaged for five years.
In 1881, Dr. Russell came to Monroe, and here she has been continuously engaged in her profession to the present time. She married Felix C. Bennett in March 1882, and finds in her gifted and successful husband a noble associate in making life useful and helpful to the world.
~from the Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and LaFayette, Wisconsin, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., published 1901., p332-3.
HANNAH C. BENNETT, M. D., wife of Felix C. Bennett, is a daughter of John and Hannah (Rolfe) Russell, and granddaughter of Richard Russell and of Thomas and Nancy (Bailey) Rolfe. She has won a high standing in the City of Monroe, Green County, Wisconsin, where she has lived for many years. The novelty of a woman physician may have served to attract attention in the early days, but her modest and unassuming character, genuine worth, and thorough mastery of her profession, command the confidence and trust of the public to a marked degree.
John Russell and his wife were natives of Kent, England, and when they emigrated to this country in 1850, were accompanied by their six children, born in England. They located in Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where they had one child born to them. Their children were: Sarah, wife of George Hall of Rio, Wis.; Matilda, wife of George Greengo of Sussex; Dr. Hannah C.; Mary, widow of Owen Cordy, of near Cambria, Wis.; John, of Cambria; Rolfe of Waukesha; and Catherine , who died at the age of twenty-four.
The father was a boot and shoemaker, and died in Sussex in 1883, aged seventy-four years. His wife died in 1888, aged seventy-six. They were Episcopalians. His father, Richard Russell, died in England when sixty years of age; he had ten children. He was an overseer and a lumber lawyer. Thomas Rolfe, the father of Hannah, mentioned above, was a farmer, and died in England, aged eighty six years. He had six children.
Dr. Hannah C. (Russell) Bennett attended the common school at Sussex, and later was a student at Carroll College, Waukesha. She secured a good education and taught school for ten years. About this time her attention was turned to the field that opened before women in the practice of medicine, and feeling some natural adaptation to the profession, she took up the study of that science, and was graduated from the Women's Medical College in Chicago in 1876. Her own home became the field of her first practice after her graduation, and there the doctor was engaged for five years.
In 1881, Dr. Russell came to Monroe, and here she has been continuously engaged in her profession to the present time. She married Felix C. Bennett in March 1882, and finds in her gifted and successful husband a noble associate in making life useful and helpful to the world.
~from the Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and LaFayette, Wisconsin, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., published 1901., p332-3.
John Russell and his wife were natives of Kent, England, and when they emigrated to this country in 1850, were accompanied by their six children, born in England. They located in Sussex, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where they had one child born to them. Their children were: Sarah, wife of George Hall of Rio, Wis.; Matilda, wife of George Greengo of Sussex; Dr. Hannah C.; Mary, widow of Owen Cordy, of near Cambria, Wis.; John, of Cambria; Rolfe of Waukesha; and Catherine , who died at the age of twenty-four.
The father was a boot and shoemaker, and died in Sussex in 1883, aged seventy-four years. His wife died in 1888, aged seventy-six. They were Episcopalians. His father, Richard Russell, died in England when sixty years of age; he had ten children. He was an overseer and a lumber lawyer. Thomas Rolfe, the father of Hannah, mentioned above, was a farmer, and died in England, aged eighty six years. He had six children.
Dr. Hannah C. (Russell) Bennett attended the common school at Sussex, and later was a student at Carroll College, Waukesha. She secured a good education and taught school for ten years. About this time her attention was turned to the field that opened before women in the practice of medicine, and feeling some natural adaptation to the profession, she took up the study of that science, and was graduated from the Women's Medical College in Chicago in 1876. Her own home became the field of her first practice after her graduation, and there the doctor was engaged for five years.
In 1881, Dr. Russell came to Monroe, and here she has been continuously engaged in her profession to the present time. She married Felix C. Bennett in March 1882, and finds in her gifted and successful husband a noble associate in making life useful and helpful to the world.
~from the Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and LaFayette, Wisconsin, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., published 1901., p332-3.
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