George C. Bennett

George C. Bennett (September 24, 1824 – January 3, 1885) was an English-American newspaper printer and politician. Life Bennett was born on September 24, 1824, in London, England. He immigrated to America in 1836, when he was twelve. Bennett initially worked as a cabinet maker for three years. Not finding the labor to his liking, he spent a year working as a farmer with his uncle in Morris County, New Jersey. In the spring of 1841, he began working for John W. Oliver in New York City and began learning the printing trade in the printing firm Sackett & Sargent. He then began working with Joseph Snowden in a New York City office, followed by working successively in several New York City printing offices. In December 1846, Bennett moved to Williamsburgh. In January 1847, he began publishing a daily newspaper called the Morning Post with two other printers and writer Isaac Anderson Smith. He ended up a proprietor of the paper along with Thomas A. Devyr and Joseph Taylor. After a year with the paper, he and Aaron Smith started the Williamsburgh Daily Times in 1848. When Williamsburgh was consolidated with Brooklyn in 1854, the paper was renamed to reflect the consolidation. Smith retired from the paper after three years, and Bennett ran the paper alone until he formed a new partnership with Bernard Peters in 1868. He left the Times in 1875, with George H. Fisher becoming his successor in the paper.