Born 17 April 1835 in Glenville, Schenectady County, New York.[1] Daughter of Alexander Fisher and Agnes Brown.[2] Married Charles W. Bennett, September 1858, in Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin; three children.[3] Moved to Salt Lake City, 1872.[4] Visited and consulted with Emmeline B. Wells regarding sericulture and other mutual concerns.[5] Member of a resolutions committee of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association, 1895.[6] Appointed to the Utah Silk Commission by Governor Heber M. Wells, April 1896.[7] Member of the Ladies’ Literary Club.[8] Member of the Reviewers’ Club, circa 1896–1902.[9] Died 24 April 1902 in Salt Lake City.[10]
[1] “Isabella E Fisher,” New York State Census, 1855, FamilySearch database, available at familysearch.org; “Useful Life of Mrs. Isabella E. Bennett Comes after Many Years to Peaceful End,” Salt Lake Herald, 25 Apr. 1902, 8.
[2] “Isabella E Fisher,” New York State Census, 1855, FamilySearch database, available at familysearch.org; Utah, Salt Lake Co., Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139834, no. 6647, p. 175, 26 Apr. 1902, familysearch.org.
[3] “Charles W. Bennett,” in History of the Bench and Bar of Utah (Interstate Press Association, 1913), 103; “Charles Washington Bennett,” in Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah, vol. 4 (George Q. Cannon and Sons, 1904), 620; 1870 U.S. Census, Chicago 16th Ward, Cook Co., IL, p. 6; 1900 U.S. Census, Fifth Precinct, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, enumeration dist. 41, p. 223A.
[4] “Useful Life of Mrs. Isabella E. Bennett,” 8; “Charles Washington Bennett,” in Whitney, History of Utah, 4:620.
[5] Emmeline B. Wells, Diary, 17 Apr. 1893; 19 June 1894; 2 July 1895; 4 Feb. 1896, Diaries of Emmeline B. Wells, Church Historian’s Press, churchhistorianspress.org/emmeline-b-wells.
[6] “Woman Suffragists,” Salt Lake Herald, 19 Mar. 1895, 3; “Convention and Woman Suffrage,” Woman’s Exponent (Salt Lake City), 1 Apr. 1895, 241.
[7] Senate Journal of the First Session of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Utah (Deseret News, 1896), 662–663; “Adjourned Sine Die,” Salt Lake Herald, 9 Apr. 1896, 5; “Passing Events,” Woman’s Exponent, 15 Apr. 1896, 140.
[8] “Well-Known Woman Dies This Morning,” Salt Lake Telegram, 24 Apr. 1902, 6.
[9] “Women’s Clubs,” Salt Lake Herald, 27 Apr. 1902, 10; Jill Mulvay Derr, “Scholarship, Service, and Sisterhood: Women’s Clubs and Associations, 1877–1977,” in Women in Utah History: Paradigm or Paradox?, ed. Patricia Lyn Scott and Linda Thatcher (Utah State University Press, 2005), 253.
[10] Utah, Salt Lake Co., Death Records, 1849–1966, DGS 4139834, no. 6647, p. 175, 26 Apr. 1902, familysearch.org; “Useful Life of Mrs. Isabella E. Bennett,” 8; “Well-Known Woman Dies This Morning,” 6.