BIO: Jacob S. Bender, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

368  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

  JACOB S. BENDER, M. D., Carlisle, was born at Bendersville, Adams 
County, Penn., September 21, 1834.  His grandfather, Conrad Bender, a 
native of Germany, came to Pennsylvania when a young man, and settled 
at Hanover, in York County, and there married.  He had two sons, Jacob 
and Henry, who laid out the town of Bendersville, and four daughters.  
Jacob married Miss Eva Schlosser, who died in 1859, upward of sixty 
years of age.  Jacob's death occurred in 1865, aged eighty-four years; 
he was the father of eleven children, seven of whom are living:  
Conrad; Catherina, wife of Wilson Naylor; Elias, who is a farmer in 
Holt County, Mo.; Susan, wife of Tobias Schlosser, a dentist in 
Hagerstown, Md.; Hannah, wife of John Cullings, a farmer near 
Bendersville; John Wesley, a dentist at Shippensburg, Penn., and Dr. 
Jacob S. Our subject worked on his father's farm, attending school in 
the winter seasons until eighteen years of age; then entered Hagerstown 
Academy, where he pursued his studies for three years, and began to 
study medicine with his cousin, Dr. J. J. Bender, and was graduated 
from the Pennsylvania Homeopathic College of Medicine in the spring of 
1862.  Soon after his graduation he was appointed assistant surgeon 
(with the rank of first lieutenant) in the Twenty-ninth Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and remained in the service until the close of 
the war.  He was with Sherman on his "march to the sea;" was at the 
battles of Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Mareugo, Ga.; Resaca, Ga.; 
Pumpkin Vine Creek, Ga.; Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, and at the 
various other engagements and skirmishes in which his regiment 
participated.  He was mustered out with the regiment at the close of 
the war; then went to Colorado and Nebraska, where for four years he 
was engaged in practicing medicine between Omaha and the Rocky 
Mountains.  After this experience he located in Carlisle, where he has 
since practiced his profession.  October 21, 1876, he was married to 
Miss Laura Conlyn, a native of Carlisle, and a daughter of Thomas and 
Esther (Barber) Conlyn.  One child has been born to this marriage - 
Esther McKinley Bender.  Dr. Bender is a member of Post No. 201, G. A. 
R., and he and wife are identified with the Presbyterian Church of 
Carlisle.