BENHAM, JOHN T., born August 21, 1789, in Cheshire, New Haven county, Conn. In 1805 or 1806 his parents moved to Ferrisburg, Addison county, Vt. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battle at Vergennes, early in 1814. John T. Benham was married Jan., 1818, at Ferrisburg, to Catharine Porter. They had six children; two died in Vermont. Mr. Benham moved with his family to Sangamon county, Ill., in wagons, arriving in the fall of 1830. He entered land, and settled two and a half miles northeast of Rochester, where seven children were born. All except five died unmarried. Of those five--

POLLY A., born Jan. 15, 1819, in Vermont, married Jonathan S. Rogers, and she died in Sangamon county.

JOHN W., born Oct. 10, 1824, in Vermont, married Mrs. Melissa E. Porter, and resides in Pontiac, Ill.

CATHARINE, born July 23, 1826, in Vermont, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 3, 1843, to John Robinson. They had four children; three died young. JOHN, Jun., accidentally shot and killed himself. John Robinson went to Califorma in 1849, and was never heard of after 1851. His widow married Amos C. Derry. They have two children, and reside in Illiopolis.

HENRY W., born Oct. 30, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Almena Stafford. She died, and he married Mrs. Frances Austin, whose maiden name was Wood, and resides in Charlotte, Ill.

NOAH P., born April 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, was married March 9, 1861, to Elizabeth Stevens, who was born Feb. 4, 1847, near Sandusky, Ohio. They have four children, MARY C., ERMINNIE W., GERTRUDE J. and JOHN O., and reside two and a half miles east of Rochester.

Mrs. Catharine Benham died June, 1852, in Sangamon county, and Mr. Benham was married Sept. 7, 1852, to Mrs. Mary Rakestraw, formerly Mrs. Seavers, and whose maiden name was Wallin. She was born July 11, 1816, in Columbiana county, Ohio, and came to Illinois in 1837. Mr. Benham was in the Black Hawk war. Mr. and Mrs. B. reside two and a half miles northeast of Rochester.