Archibald F. Bennett

Short Name: Archibald F. Bennett
Full Name: Bennett, Archibald F. (Archibald Fowler), 1896–1965
Birth Year: 1896
Death Year: 1965

Archibald Fowler Bennet was born March 17, 1896 in Dingle, Idaho, but he spent his boyhood in Taber, Alberta. He attended Normal College in Calgary and taught school from 1915 until he enlisted in the Canadian army in 1916 and served in France during World War I until 1919. He resumed teaching in Alberta, then moved with his wife to Salk Lake City in 1921 where he attended the University of Utah where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's in history and political science. He became interested in genealogy as a teenager and published articles in the Genealogical Society of Utah's quarterly, and soon was appointed librarian for the society, a position he held for more than 30 years. His poem "Holy temples on Mount Zion" is about temples and family history work.

Dianne Shapiro, from "Early LDS genealogist elected to hall of fame" in Deseret News, June, 18, 1994 and "Holy Temples on Mount Zion" by Jenna Dilts, blog post Feb. 10, 2018 on "By Study And Faith: a Latter-day Charlotte Mason" website (accessed 8/12/2020)

Wikipedia Biography

Archibald Fowler Bennett (March 17, 1896 – August 28, 1965) was a longtime employee of the Genealogical Society of Utah who was such a figure in the promotion of family history research in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that he became known as "Mr. Genealogy".

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