Bennett, Franklyn I.A. (Franklyn Isaac Abraham), 1873-1947.

The Rev. Franklyn Isaac Abraham Bennett was born on May 14, 1873 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was two years old, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina where he was educated in private schools beginning at the age of six. He graduated from Avery Academy in 1891 and left Charleston in 1892 to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C.. In 1895 he began his study of theology at King Hall, an Episcopal theological college connected with Howard University, graduating in 1897.

Ordained deacon on October 31, 1897, he was assigned to assist The Rev. John Henry Mingo Pollard, Rector of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and to work at Saint Andrew's Mission and School in Charleston County. On November 30, 1898, Rev. Bennett was ordained into the priesthood at Saint Mary's Chapel in Columbia, South Carolina. In addition to his continuing work at Saint Andrew's Mission and School, he went on to serve as Priest-in-Charge of Calvary Episcopal Church in Charleston, Epiphany in Summerville, and Atonement in Walterboro. In the summer of 1899 he acted as archdeacon of South Carolina.

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