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EUGENE BENDER
An enterprising, successful
vineyardist, whose scientific methods have enabled him to attain exceptional
results, is Eugene G. Bender, a resident of San Joaquin County, about two and one-half
miles north of Acampo. He was born in
Menno, South Dakota, on July 12, 1897, the son of C. J. Bender, whose
life-story is written in another part of this historical work.
Eugene Bender was a lad when his
father removed with his family to California, and he attended school at Lodi
and Woodbridge, and there as well as home, got such help of real, practical
value that, when only sixteen, he was able to set out and make his own way in
the world. He was offered a clerkship in
a grocery and stuck faithfully at that work for three years. Then he took up mechanics and for a year
worked in a garage at Lodi.
At Stockton, on April 5, 1916, Mr.
Bender was married to Miss May McLachlan, a native of Lodi, and the daughter of
E. B. and Anna McLachlan, whose parents came from Canada to California forty
years ago. Her father, who was of Scotch
descent, has passed away; but her mother is still living in Lodi. She had four children: Francis, the eldest, died in 1918; William
served in the late World War, and made the supreme sacrifice, after terrible
sufferings as the result of being gassed; Leo lives at Lodi; and May is Mrs.
Eugene G. Bender. She was educated in
the Lodi grammar school.
For four years after his marriage
Eugene Bender leased and operated his father’s ranch of 400 acres, and then his
father moved upon it. Our subject,
however, retained through a special lease, fifty acres; twenty are in a
vineyard and twenty in the open land; while on a tract of ten acres, which
includes a vineyard of two and a half acres, the balance open land, he has
built a modern bungalow.
On child, Francis, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Bender, who are untiring in their own cooperation for better schools
and other facilties for the community generally. In national politics an enthusiastic
Republican, Mr. Bender never allows political partisanship to interfere with
loyal local support.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1569-1570. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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