Bios: BENDER, Elias P. : Stillwater, Fishing Creek Twp, Columbia Co, PA

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J.H. Battle. History of Columbia and Montour Cos. in Pa., Chicago: A.
Warner & Co. 1887

ELIAS P. BENDER, farmer,, P.O. Stillwater (Fishing Creek Twp.), is a
grandson of MORTON BENDER, a farmer, who died in Mount Pleasant Twp,
near Orangeville. His children were JACOB and THOMAS, who died in Iowa;
DAVIS and GEORGE (twins), the former living in Nebraska and the latter
in Sullivan Co., Pa;  POLLY, who died in Mount Pleasant; CATHERINE in
Greenwood; LYDIA in Orange; MARY in Sullivan CO., and AARON, the father
of our subject.  AARON was born in Reading, May 17, 1814, and on his
marriage bought a farm near Bendertown; in 1849 he bought another near
the place where he now resides and has always followed farming.  His
wife, SALOME, daughter of JOHN PEALER, of this twp., bore him the
following named children: GEORGE WASHINGTON, who died in infancy;
SAMUEL, who married ELIZABETH WENNER (resides at Berwick where he has
been boss of the planeing mill for 20 years); ENANDUS, a farmer, married
to CATHERINE WENNER (resides in this township); JOHN M., lumberman,
married to MATTIE DERR (lives in Muncy, Lycoming Co.); THOMAS, a farmer,
married to SALLIE CRAMER, after whose decease he married MAGGIE KLINE
(lives in Benton Twp.); FRANK P., a farmer, marrried to ELIZA PEALER
(lives in this twp.); SUSANNA, wife of ELIAS WENNER, of this twp;
SALOME, unmarried, in this twp; and ELIAS P. Our subject was born Feb.
11, 1838, and lived with his father until he was 25 years of age. He
then married and worked for a year at shoemaking, later buying a farm
near Jonestown in this twp. (also bought farms at Pealertown and
Greenwood Twp.) He then moved to Bendertown, where he built a store
...thence to Benton ... returned to Bendertown, and 8 years later bought
the farm on which  he now resides near Stillwater. In Oct, 1862, he was
drafted and entered the Union Army in the 178th Regiment, and served 9
months. He then returned home, married and in the fall of 1864 enlisted
in the 198th Regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was
severely wounded to Lee Farms, Va., where he received a bullet through
the neck and a flesh wound in the arm, and was laid up in the hospital
for 3 months. April 14, 1864, he married REBECCA, daughter of JACOB
MARKLE, of this twp. She was born Mar. 25, 1843, and has borne her
husband 6 children: CLARA; TORRANCE, who is a clerk in Wilkesbarre;
LLOYD; SALLIE  C.; PEARL; and MARY AGNES, who died Dec. 19, 1877. MR.
BENDER takes an active interest in political matters and has held many
twp. offices. He is an active member of the G.A.R. and also a member of
the German Reformed Church.