About Joel Benton
Lived 1832 – 1911 (aged 79). Joel Benton was an American poet and writer.
Joel Benton (May 29, 1832 – September 15, 1911) was an American writer, poet and lecturer.
Biography 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: With Some Account Of The Poe-Chivers Controversy And Other Poe Memorabilia (1899) and The Life of Phineas T. Barnum.
He died in 1911 in Poughkeepsie.
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American writer
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Joel Benton was born on 29 May 1832 in Amenia.
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Joel Benton died on 15 September 1911 in Poughkeepsie.
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Joel Benton was a poet and writer.
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