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Bentham Neales (3 May 1844 – 28 February 1914) married Emma Palmer on 21 April 1883. He was, with T. Barnfield, R. C. Cornish and others, a founder of the Baker's Creek Company, that removed tons of gold from their mine near
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In Memoriam. John Bentham Neales, Died 31 July 1873.
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244:The rippled laughter that rolled swift along,
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250:Father of all our mining, fitly named !
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