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Bennet C. Riley
Bennet C. Riley〔His name is sometimes written as Bennett, but his own correspondence uses the spelling of Bennet. See United States. Congress. House. 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, (p. 822. for an example ).〕 (November 27, 1787June 6, 1853) was the sixth and last military governor of the territory of California before it became a U.S. state. He ordered the election of representatives to a state constitutional convention, and handed over all civil authority to elected delegates at the end of 1849. He participated in the War of 1812 on Lake Ontario. He also served in the United States Army during the Seminole War in Florida, and Mexican-American War.
==Family ==
Bennet Riley was born to Irish-Catholic parents, Bennet Riley and Susanna Ann Drury〔Spencer Tucker, (San Patricio Battalion ), found in Alexander Bielakowski (ed), ''Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia'', ABC-CLIO, Jan 11, 2013. 9781598844283 〕 in St. Mary's, Maryland, 1787; his mother died in 1792 and his father in 1811. Early in life apprenticed to a cobbler: he served as a foreman in a shoe factory and later as a sailor on a privateer.〔 Jefferson Davis, ''Papers'', LSU Press, 1975 9780807158654, p. 602.〕
Riley married Arabella Israel, of Philadelphia, on 9 November 1834 in at the Jefferson Barracks, Lemay, Missouri.〔Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, 29 Nov 1834. Accessed 31 October 201.〕 They had eight children: William Davenport Riley and Samuel Israel Riley, twins, died in Fort King, Florida, on 15 and 17 November 1841; Bennet Israel Riley, born 1835 in Massachusetts, served in the Navy and died aboard the war-sloop ''USS Albany'', which disappeared with all hands in September, 1854;〔''Navy Casualty Reports, 1776–1941'', Lost and Wrecked Ships, Explosions and Steam Casualties, (p. 5 ), Fold3 12-003. Accessed 3 November 2015. See also Correspondence of Franklin Pierce with the Senate, ''To the Senate (re sloop-of-war Albany),'' 26 February 1855, Congressional Edition, Volume 745, (p. 331 ).〕 Mary, born 1836; Arabella I Riley, 1837–1916) (never married); George, born 1838; and Edward Bishop Dudley Riley (1839–1918).〔Edward Riley, born in 1839 in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, graduated from West Point in 1860. There is some conflict with the sources over his subsequent service. Sources about his father report that he served with the 4th Infantry in California; upon the outbreak of war in 1861, he resigned his commission on 13 June 1861, and left with Lewis Armistead for Texas, and then to Virginia. He served as a staff officer, under Braxton Bragg and Albert Sidney Johnston and several others, as part of the Confederate staff. Davis, p. 601. According to Army records, he served as a corporal in the 2nd Infantry, and deserted in June 1861 in Troy New York. New York State Archives, Cultural Education Center, Albany, New York; New York Civil War Muster Roll Abstracts, 1861-1900; Archive Collection #: 13775-83; Box #: 84; Roll #: 932-933, (Edward Riley ). Accessed 3 November 2015. He is listed in the "Officers of the 4th Infantry Present and Absent in September 1861", Army Register of Enlistments, p. 539, accessed 3 November 2015, and in US Army Historical Register - Volume 2 › Part III - Officers Who Left the US Army After 1860 and Joined the Confederate Service › Page 4. Accessed 3 November 2015. 〕 Ulysses S. Grant described him as "the finest specimen of physical manhood I had ever looked upon...6'2 (190 cm) in his stocking feet, straight as the undrawn () bowstring, broad shouldered with every limb in perfect proportion, with an eagle and a step as light as a forest tiger.〔 Susannah Ural Bruce, ''The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861–1865'', NYU Press, 2006, 9780814799390 pp. 36–37.〕 An accident or injury in his youth caused him to lose part of his palette, and he spoke with a hoarse voice.〔Davis, p. 602.〕〔New York Times, (New York Times: ''General Riley'' ), June 11, 1853.〕
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