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THEODORE C.
BENDER
A thoroughly progressive and
up-to-date practitioner of dental surgery, Theodore C. Bender is also
interested in viticulture, owning a fine twenty-acre vineyard. He was born near Menno, South Dakota, October
22, 1892, a son of Charles J. and Elizabeth (Ulmer) Bender, represented
elsewhere in this history. Theodore C.
attended grammar school two years in South Dakota, then the family removed to
Lodi where they remained for about five months, then the father bought a
400-acre ranch north of Woodbridge, where he still resides.
Theodore C. Bender completed his
grammar schooling in the Woodbridge school; then attended the Lodi high school,
from which he graduated with the class of 1913; then entered the University of
California and was graduated from the Affiliated College in San Francisco with
the class of 1916, with the degree of D. D. S.
Returning to Lodi he opened an office in the Friedberger-Blodgett
Building, where his offices are equipped for the most modern and most
scientific methods known to dental surgery, and he has steadily built up a fine
practice. During the late war Mr. Bender
entered the service of his country and was sent to Vancouver Barracks, where he
remained for three months and was honorably discharged.
On February 9, 1919, at Lodi, Dr.
Bender was united in marriage with Miss Edna Jungeblut,
a native of Nebraska and a daughter of F. J. and Marie (Stark) Jungeblut. About
seventeen years ago Mrs. Bender accompanied her parents to Lodi and she
attended the Salem School. Her father
was a graduate of the Princeton Theological College at Princeton, New Jersey,
and was a minister in the German Reformed Church. Dr. Bender’s father deeded him a forty-acre
tract of land, twenty acres of which has been set to grapes which are now a
year old; the balance of twenty acres is grain land; he has installed a pumping
plant with a five-inch pump driven by a fifteen-horsepower motor. Dr. and Mrs. Bender are the parents of one
daughter, Elinor Bernice. They make their home at 315 West Oak Street,
Lodi, and they are members of the German Reformed Church. Dr. Bender is a member of the Masonic Lodge
and also the Knights of Pythias of Lodi, and in
politics is a Republican.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1522. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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