Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Samuel E. Bennett
BENNETT, SAMUEL E. (1872–1925), inducted between 1920–1936
Born in East Liverpool, Ohio, Samuel E. Bennett completed his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Ohio State University in 1890 and was immediately appointed chair of the Department of Veterinary Science at the University of Kentucky, where he served for six years. He was then veterinarian and chief inspector at the US Bureau of Animal Industry, and later, at Union Stock Yards in Chicago. Dr. Bennett was an authority on foot-and-mouth disease and oversaw the closure of the International Live Stock Exposition in 1914, during the epizootic.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 47