BIO:  Christian Bender, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Franklin Township, Pg 105

CHRISTIAN BENDER was born in 1828 in York County, and is a son of Lewis and 
Catherine (Hershey) Bender.  His grandparents were natives of Lancaster County, 
Penn., but came to York County at and early day.  His father was also a native of 
Lancaster County; his mother was born in York County.  They owned a farm of 165 
acres, which the father farmed until a few years before his death.  They were 
active members of the United Brethren Church, and left eight children:  Mary, 
Christian, Henry, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lydia, Michael and Catherine.  Christian 
Bender followed farming until his marriage, when he engaged in threshing, farming 
and teaming, which he is still following.  He owns ninety-three acres of well 
cultivated land in Franklintown Township, also a small farm of twenty-eight acres 
of mountain land.  In 1851 he married Elizabeth Mumper, a daughter of Michael 
Mumper, a prominent farmer of Franklin Township, who died in 1859.  They have 
five children:  Samuel H., Mary E., Edward L., Lilly E. and Sallie.  Nearly all 
the family belong to the United Brethren Church.  Mr. Bender has been a director 
of the Dillsburgh and Mechanicsburgh Railroad for fourteen years.