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JOHN A. BENDER
Since 1903 John A. Bender has been
residing in the Lodi section of San Joaquin County and is the owner of a
forty-acre vineyard five miles south of Lodi.
He was born in Menno, South Dakota, August 11, 1885, a son of John K.
and Christina (Bender) Bender. John K.
Bender was a farmer in his native land of Russia, having been born near the
city of Odessa. In 1903 the family came
to California and located in the vicinity of Lodi where the father purchased a
twenty-acre vineyard on Cherokee Lane; later he sold this ranch and removed to
Lodi, where he passed away in 1916, and the mother passed away in 1906. They were the parents of four children: Charles C.; John A., our subject; Margaret,
Mrs. Henry Bender; and Bertha, Mrs. Rudolph Rode, both living in the Henderson
district.
John A. Bender received a grammar
school education in Menno, South Dakota, and assisted his father with the ranch
work until he was twenty-one years old, when he bought 160 acres on the Elliott
Road north of Lockeford, where he engaged in farming
for six or seven years; on this quarter section of land he set out a vineyard
of twenty-five acres; later he sold his ranch and bought the place where he now
resides, which is situated about four miles south of Lodi; this ranch contains
forty acres, one-half of which is in alfalfa and the remaining half is set to
vineyard; there are two irrigating plants on his ranch, one with
a five-inch pump with a twelve-horsepower motor and the other with a six-inch
pump with a fifteen-horsepower motor; Mr. Bender has also remodeled the house
into a comfortable and modern residence.
On October 28, 1906, in Lodi,
occurred the marriage of Mr. Bender, which united him with Miss Pauline Schenkenberger, a native of South Dakota, born near
Scotland, a daughter of John and Louise (Barrett) Schenkenberger. Mrs. Bender received her education in her
native state and accompanied her parents to California about twenty-five years
ago and here her father engaged in farming in the vicinity of Lodi. Mr. and Mrs. Bender are the parents of nine
children: Herbert, Thelma, John, Jr.,
Roberta, Roy, Robert, Alfred, Raymond and Willard. Mr. Bender is a Republican in politics and
the family is identified with the German Reformed Church.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1521-1522. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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