San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/7/2009
EUGENE G. 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 northwest of Acampo. He was born in Menno, S.D., 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 one-half acres, the balance open land, he has built a modern bungalow.
One child, Francis, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bender, who are untiring in their own cooperation for better school and other facilities for the community generally. In national politics an enthusiastic Republican, Mr. Bender never allows political partisanship to interfere with loyal local support.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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