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 1864 - 1939

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• Birth	2 Nov 1864	Field Cross House, Eng
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Sep 1939	Jackson, MI
  Person ID	I10	Bâby Family of North America
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2005
  Family	Bertha Haddy,   d. Abt 1954
  Children	> 1. Ida Mildred Bentley,   b. 28 Feb 1904, Chessaning, MI ,   d. 20 Dec 1987, Pompano Beach, FL
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2005
  Family ID	F97	Group Sheet

• Photos		Arthur Nathan Bentley

• Notes

  BIO: With the death of William Bentley, prosperous owner of textile mills in England, one son of Nathan Bentley, William Montgomery told the other two that their fortune had been lost and so Arthur Nathan and Edwin Middlebrook traveled to northern Michigan with their parents with that which was left to live as country gentlemen farmers All was lost in a fire. Arthur Nathan had attended Huttersfield in England, as did his father and grandfather, for two years when the first tragedy occurred. He was also in the choir of the Anglican London Cathedral. He was a reader, enjoyed cricket and football (soccer) and enjoyed hunting and fishing. He liked music, especially opera. He was a very gentle man. He lived in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Jackson, MI where he worked for the state prison. He was a very skilled man at carpentry and the inmates loved him very much. They would build cabinets with inlayed pearl for him. He was also the superintendent of a textile plant -industries- Jackson, MI.