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Life Summary
Full name
Benjamin White Norris
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Siblings
7
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
2
Family
James Frederick Norris (father), Mary White Norris (mother), Abby Seaver Miller (wife)
Education
Other
Other Education
Colby College (ME)
Occupation
Military
Attorney or Judge
Businessman
Educator
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Free Soil
Republican
Other Affiliations
Other
Other Affiliation
Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Government
US House of Representatives
Other state government
Military
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)