Cambria County PA Archives Obituaries.....Bender, Emericus January 26, 1869
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The Cambria freeman. (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938: February 11, 1869
An Old Citizen Gone. 
Mr. Emericus Bender died at his residence in Carroll township, this county, on
Tuesday, 26th ult., from a stroke of the palsy, aged 84 years, 2 months and 13 days.
The deceased was one of the first settlers in Northern Cambria, having resided at
the place where he died since the year 1807. He was a well to do farmer, and was
beloved and respected by a large circle of relatives, friends and neighbors. In
connection with his death we give place to the following brief sketch of Mr.
Bender's somewhat eventful life, as written by himself and published in the
Alleghanian of this place a little more than a year ago. It will be perused with
interest by all our readers, and is more graphic and complete than anything we could
hope to write :
"I came to this country with my parents, from Germany, in the year 1798. We took
passage at Hamburg, and arrived in Philadelphia in November. I was bound out to Col.
Caleb Davis, No. 4 South Third Street, who sent me to school. The following year,
1799, just before Christmas, the schoolmaster said there would be no school next
day, for General George Washington would be buried that day. I was at George
Washington's funeral and I suppose there is no other man in this county who can say
as much. I was bound out when I was 14 years old, to serve six years. After my term
of service had expired, I came to Loretto, Cambria county, on the 14th day of April,
1865. My father had gone there three years before. In 1807, Rev. Demetrius A.
Gallitzin got authority from Henry Drinker and Jacob Downing, who owned eight tracts
of land near Carrolltown, for three settlers to make choice of one hundred acres
each of that land, at one dollar per acre. Thomas Byrne got the first choice; 1 got
the second; and Conrad Luther got the third. My two neighbors have been dead from
forty to fifty years, so I am the only living one who settled here when the county
was a wilderness. I am 83 years old. I was a juryman at the first Court held in this
county. I have been County Auditor, and in 1827 was elected County Commissioner. In
that year, Paul Benshoof, David Todd, and myself, Commissioners, contracted with
Arnold Downing to build the present Court House.

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