![]() ![]() Laura Benét employed herself as a social worker, newspaper editor, poet and author. Stephen, who was much younger, attended Hitchcock Academy in California while his father was stationed in Benicia, then followed his brother to Yale. Laura went to Vassar College to continue her education, and William went to Yale. ![]() It was while the family was at the Watervliet Arsenal, that the boys were sent to Albany Academy (then a military school), and Laura attended the Emma Willard School in Troy. ![]() They also spent periods with Colonel Benét's grandparents in Washington, D.C., and lived for several years in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Buffalo, New York. Both father and son managed ordnance, and because of this, Laura, William and Stephen spent much of their early childhood living at a series of arsenals: Fort Hamilton on the shores of the New York Harbor, the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, the Frankfort Arsenal near Philadelphia, the Watervliet Arsenal near Albany, and finally the Benicia Arsenal in California. Army, following in the footsteps of his father, the first Stephen Vincent Benét, a brigadier general. James Walker Benét was a colonel in the U.S. ![]() Laura, William Rose, and Stephen Vincent Benét were the children of James Walker Benét and Frances Neill Rose. ![]()
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