Charles Wesley Bennett

Charles Wesley Bennett

an educator, was born at East Bethany, N.Y., July 18, 1828. Graduating from Wesleyan University in 1852, he taught until 1862, when he entered the Methodist ministry. In 1864 he became principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N.Y.; in 1866-69 studied at the University of Berlin; in 1871 became professor of history and logic in Syracuse University, and in 1885 professor of historical theology in Garrett Biblical Institute. He died April 17, 1891. He was for a time art editor of the Ladies' Repository, and was the author of Christian Archaeology.