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Isabella E. Fisher

Isabella E. Bennett

17 April 1835—24 April 1902

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

Footnotes

  1. 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. 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. 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. 4 “Useful Life of Mrs. Isabella E. Bennett,” 8; “Charles Washington Bennett,” in Whitney, History of Utah, 4:620.

  5. 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. 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. 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. 8 “Well-Known Woman Dies This Morning,” Salt Lake Telegram, 24 Apr. 1902, 6.

  9. 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. 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.