. C. Bennett, city attorney of Redlands, comes from sturdy New England stock, his ancestry, on both sides embracing officers of the Revolutionary army, and, upon one side an officer in the colonial wars with France, and also the famous Puritan commander, Miles Standish. Mr. Bennett's admission to the bar dates back to 1867. He came to Redlands in 1888, from Chicago, where he was then practicing law. He at once became associated with the men who were establishing the new city and was acting city attorney from the beginning. He laid out the different departments of the city government, as they are conducted to-day. He was appointed city attorney July 30, 1889, in place of R. J. Waters, who had served a few months and resigned. This appointment was made by the first Board of Trustees and Mr. Bennett has been appointed to the same position by each subsequent board.

During the nine years of the growth of Redlands there has been occasion for testing every feature of its municipal law and without exception the ordinances have been maintained, although some of them have been carried to the Supreme Court. The new city has had more legal business and experience than usually falls to the lot of a city of four times its size.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 21.)