Nathaniel S. Benton

Nathaniel Soley Benton (February 19, 1792 – June 29, 1869) was an American politician from New York.

[1][2] He was engaged in teaching during the winter of 1812, but, filled with a sense of patriotism by the War of 1812, he enlisted in the 34th Regiment of the United States Army.

[1] He rose rapidly to the rank of adjutant general, and also served as Judge-Advocate at two courts-martial in 1814 at Plattsburgh, New York.

[1] About 1820, having a desire to see something of the west, he made a tour of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

[2] He died on June 29, 1869, in Little Falls, New York;[2] and was interred in the Church Street Cemetery there.