Milo Lyman Bennett

Milo Lyman Bennett (May 28, 1789 – July 7, 1868) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.

Biography He was born in Sharon, Connecticut on May 28, 1789, the son of Edmund Bennett (d. 1829) and Mary (Gillet) Bennett (d. 1828). He was educated in Connecticut, and attended Williams College for two years. He graduated from Yale College in 1811, and his classmates included Roger Sherman Baldwin, Ralph Emerson, Henry Collins Flagg, Francis Granger, Levinus Monson, Sidney Edwards Morse, Samuel S. Phelps, Joseph Spencer, Selah B. Strong, Frederick A. Tallmadge, and Joseph Emerson Worcester. He studied at the Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the bar, and settled in Vermont.

He served as State's Attorney of Bennington County for from 1821 to 1822, and in 1833. and later re-interred at Burlington's Lakeview Cemetery.

Family Bennett was married to Adeline Hatch Bennett (1798-1867).