Benson, O.B.^{[1, 2]}

1849? -

• Name	Benson, O.B.
  	VARIANT NAME: Benson, Bennett.
  Born	1849?
  Gender	Male
  Census	1891	Yale Census District, BC
  	Name: Bennett Benson, single, parents born in Norway, religion Lutheran. Source: Nominal Census Data for the Southern Interior of BC, Living Landscapes, URL: http://www.livinglandscapes.bc.ca/thomp-ok/census/index.html
  	Age: 42
  	Address: Yale Census District Kootenay Sub-district, F2 BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	May 1891	Nelson, BC
  	Address: Nelson, BC Canada
  Business Address/Year	Aug 1891	Revelstoke, BC
  	Address: Main St. Revelstoke, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	Jun 1891?	Ainsworth, BC
  	Address: Ainsworth, BC Canada
  Association	Elite Photograph Gallery (Nelson) (Relationship: Proprietor)
  Person ID	I377	Camera Workers | B, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2017

  
  

• Documents		O.B. Benson's ad, Kootenay Star, 1 Aug 1891. In which he remarks upon his his visit to Revelstoke.
  		O.B. Benson's ad, Nelson Miner, 23 May 1891, p. 8. In which he gives notice of his moving from Nelson to Ainsworth.

  
  

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• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial (itinerant). BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Newspaper references placed him in Nelson (May 1891) Ainsworth (possibly in Jun 1891) and Revelstoke (Aug 1891). He was recorded in the 1891 Canadian census as Bennett Benson, age 42, and single; his parents were born in Norway and his religion was Lutheran.

  
  

• Sources

  [S668] (Nelson) Miner, 8, 23 May 1891. [S669] (Revelstoke) Kootenay Star, 4, 01 Aug 1891.