Edward Oswald Bennett (1870 - 1949)

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Bennett Richard Bennett

Elizabeth Watson Bennett

Edward Oswald Bennett

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Bennett Richard Bennett

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Elizabeth Watson Bennett

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Almarinda (Bennett) Flower

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Scott A Heydrick

Scott A Heydrick

Hattie Bennett

Eliza Emily (Tout) Bennett

Eliza Emily (Tout) Bennett

Eliza Emily (Tout) Bennett

Charles Bennett J.

James and Francis Bennett

Mary Josephine Sperry Bennett

James R Bennett

John Bennett

Jane and John Bennett Family

Andrew Cairns Bennett

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In 1870, in the year that Edward Oswald Bennett was born, on March 31st, Thomas Mundy Peterson was the first African-American male who voted in an election - a local election about the town charter. Peterson, a school principal, was also the first to hold elected office and the first to sit on a jury.

In 1880, when he was merely 10 years old, in October, the "Blizzard of 1880" began in North America - considered the most severe winter ever known in the US. Many areas were snowbound throughout the whole winter, which was made famous in Laura Ingalls Wilder's book The Long Winter.

In 1910, at the age of 40 years old, Edward was alive when Angel Island, which is in San Francisco Bay, became the immigration center for Asians entering U.S. It was often referred to as "The Ellis Island of the West". Due to restrictive laws against Chinese immigration, many immigrants spent years on the island.

In 1934, when he was 64 years old, on June 6th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was formed as a response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the continuing Great Depression. Previously, the states regulated the offering and sales of stocks - called "blue sky" laws. They were largely ineffective. Roosevelt created a group (one member was Joseph Kennedy, father of the future President Kennedy) who knew Wall Street well and they defined the mission and operating mode for the SEC. The new organization had broad and stringent rules and oversight and restored public confidence in the stock market in the United States.

In 1949, in the year of Edward Oswald Bennett's passing, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Today, there are 26 nations in NATO.