Emigrated to Utah with his first wife, Mary, in 1853. He was ordained a member of the 6th Quorum of Seventies on 14 February 1854 by Joseph Young. He may be the same Samuel Bennett who participated in the 1856 Rescue Company. Married (then later divorced) Eleanor Chisholm. Returned to England by 1871. He and Mary appear on the 1871 census in Birkenhead.
