Henry Arthur Benning (August 8, 1879, in Lyons (town), New York – April 14, 1962) was the vice president and general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar Company.
[1] He graduated from Lyons High School, then attended the Rochester Business Institute to become a court reporter.
[1] In 1905, Benning left to work on the construction of a sugar beet factory being built in Glendale, Arizona.
[1] He was a beet end foreman for the first production campaign, then left for the Great Western Sugar Company in Fort Collins, Colorado.
[1] He left due to "personal differences" with E. S. Rolapp, and rejoined the General Offices of Holly Sugar in Colorado Springs, then supervised their Torrington, Wyoming factory in 1928, "gleefully" battling with Great Western for sugar beet acreage in the Torrington area.