She has an elegant prose style, as is shown in her correspondence and a number of fugitive newspaper and magazine articles.

[2] As an amateur botanist, during the season of 1883, she made a collection of the flora of the Pipestone region for Prof. Newton Horace Winchell's report on the botanical resources of Minnesota.

[2] Bennett was an active member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and during 1888–89, she held the office of National Inspector of Minnesota.

[5] It was the fascinating glamour of legend, woven into poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his "Song of Hiawatha", which led Adelaide to covet a piece of the "blood-red mystic stone" for her cabinet of geological curiosities.

She wrote to the postmaster of Pipestone, Minnesota, then a town surveyed within the precincts of the quarry, requesting a specimen of the stone.