Joel Benton
Joel Benton was an American writer, poet and lecturer.Biography
Benton was born in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York. He worked as a teacher, writer and lecturer.
As well as producing poetry, he wrote Emerson As A Poet, The Truth About Protection, Greeley on Lincoln, In the Poe Circle and The Life of Phineas T. Barnum.
He died in 1911 in Poughkeepsie.
