Benjamin Preston

(Photo tintype circa 1860's)
Benjamin was born and lived in Canada and for some reason he was sent to Wisconsin as a youngster with the family of Rufus Preston a cousin. The story in a published book in Canada is , he was a very strong young man and one day he was out and two other young men picked a fight with him and in the fist fight that happened one of the young men was killed. The story didn't say what happened with Benjamin, I think they didn't know but Benjamin all of a sudden for years disappeared and this is when he was in Wisconsin. When he became an adult he returned to Canada and married and had a child, then the census shows that his wife Ann is a Widow. But for some reason Benjamin returned to Wisconsin and married Jane Irish and had a family. Benjamin was born about 1835 in Ontario and he married Ann Casement and had Hester Mellisa born in 1859 and the 1861 census shows Ann as a Widow. So there is the story and it may be why all of the descendants will not talk. Benjamin looked so much like his brother Potter.
Donated by Jim Preston