BIOS: Frederick William BENDER, Springs, Somerset County, PA

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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania; Bedford County by E. 
Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by William H. Welfley; v.3, Pub. The Lewis 
Publishing Company, New York/Chicago 1906, ppg. 223/4

Frederick William BENDER.

Frederick William Bender, of Springs, is a son of John Bender, who was born 
in Germany and at the age of twenty emigrated to the United States.  He 
settled in Garrett county, Maryland, where he became a farmer and was also 
engaged in business as a brewer and distiller, and in manufacturing a patent 
medicine clled [sic] "Bender's Tonic," which he is still manufacturing and 
selling.  Mr. Bender married Elizabeth Otto, whose parents were natives of 
Germany, and their children were: Barbara, Jacob J., Daniel H., George L., 
Frederick William (see forward), John H., Charles A., Samuel and Christian E.
Frederick William Bender, son of John and Elizabeth (Otto) Bender, was born 
May 1, 1869, at Grantsville, Maryland, and received his education in the 
public schools of New Germany, Maryland.  At the age of fifteen he left 
school and worked at farming and lumbering.  In 1890, in company with his 
brother, Jacob J. Bender, he went into the business of drilling wells, and 
continued in this line of industry until 1895.  In that year, in partnership 
with E. M. Miller, he opened a general store at Springs, under the firm name 
of F. W. Bender & Company.  In the following autumn he purchased his 
partner's interest and in 1896 sold out the store to his brother, Charles A., 
returning to the drilling business.  At the end of six months, however, he 
bought back the store and at the same time disposed of his interest in the 
drilling machinery.  He is a stockholder in the Somerset Telephone Company. 
Mr. Bender's business has grown from a small country grocery to what might be 
termed a department store.  He now purchases some lines in carload lots.  
Miss Cora E. Miller, an efficient young lady, is his bookkeeper and manager 
of the dry goods department.  In his political principles he is a Democrat.  
He is a member of the Mennonite church.
Mr. Bender married, July 16, 1893, Melinda, daughter of Daniel J. Miller, of 
Springs, and their children are: Ray, born December 11, 1894; Rhoda, June 4, 
1897; Walter Anderson, March 17, 1899; Lucretia, April 13, 1901; Albert Fred, 
January 24, 1906.