Major Edward Allen Bennett served in the Civil War as a member of the 6th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry Volunteers. He went on to serve in the West Virginia Legislature, on Huntington City Council and was elected mayor in 1885.
Bennett was an auditor by profession. In his “Cabell County Annals and Families,” published in 1935, local historian George S. Wallace identified him as one of “high priests of the Democratic party” who “met every day at the Florentine Hotel … and decided all great party questions.”
On September 3, 1915, Major Bennett and his wife, Laura Barnes Bennett, both died within a few hours of each other at their Huntington home. After a joint funeral service, they were laid to rest together in the same grave at Spring Hill.
