Colonel Howard J. Benchoff with Unidentified Army Soldier

Colonel Howard J. Benchoff with Unidentified Army Soldier

Benchoff, Howard Johnston (1876-1958)

Massanutten Military Academy (Woodstock, Shenandoah County, Va)

Military academies - Virginia - Woodstock

Military education - Virginia - Woodstock

Teachers - Virginia - Woodstock

Photograph of Colonel Howard J. Benchoff (on left) with an unidentified Army soldier posing on the Massanutten Military Academy (MMA) campus with Lantz Hall visible behind them.

Colonel Benchoff was an influential headmaster of MMA from 1905-1955. He was the son of Loudon Francis and Martha Belle (Johnston) Benchoff. His first wife was Kathryn Leona Mahon who died in 1918. His second wife was Florence Conant. He had a son, Robert J. Benchoff and a daughter, Mrs. William (Rosalie) W. Noel, when he died in Woodstock in 1958.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

c. 1930s

Subject identified by his niece, Betty (Benchoff) Page, whose father was Guy A. Benchoff (Colonel Benchoff's brother). Betty also identified the building as Lantz Hall as she has lived across the street from MMA most of her life.

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Howard Johnston Benchoff appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 004097, 008453, 012549, 016794, 020091, 020276, 020287 and 020110.

020110

Glass Negative

8x10 inches