| James Bentley |
| James Bentley, one of
the oldest resident preachers, was born in England in
1816, emigrated to the U. S. in 1842, and soon entered
Jubilee College, near Peoria, where he was ordained as an
Episcopal minister in 1847. His first parish was at
Warsaw, Ill. In the spring of 1857 he came to Iowa and
located in Allamakee Co. He was the first preacher at
Lansing. In 1859 he founded the Waukon parish, of which
he had charge for many years. Rev. Bentley has been for a
number of years in the employ of the American S. S.
Union, first as district agent, then as State agent of
Iowa, and afterwards as State agent for Kansas. He is at
present missionary-at-large in Allamakee Co. He was
married in 1850 to Miss Cox, and they have two children,
Henry J., of Waukon, and William C., of New York City. pg 472 |