San Joaquin County Biographies


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JOHN A. BENDER.
 
        Since 1903 John A. Bender has been residing in the Lodi section of San 
Joaquin County and is the owner of a forty-acre vineyard five miles south of 
Lodi. He was born in Menno, S. D., August 11, 1885, a son of John K. and 
Christina (Bender) Bender. John K. Bender was a farmer in his native land of 
Russia, having been born near the city of Odessa. In 1903 the family came to 
California and located in the vicinity of Lodi where the father purchased a 
twenty-acre vineyard on Cherokee Lane; later he sold this ranch and removed to 
Lodi, where he passed away in 1916, and the mother passed away in 1906. They 
were the parents of four children: Charles C.; John A., our subject; Margaret, 
Mrs. Henry Bender; and Bertha, Mrs. Rudolph Rode, both living in the Henderson 
district.
        John A. Bender received a grammar school education in Menno, S. D., and 
assisted his father with the ranch work until he was twenty-one years old, when 
he bought 160 acres on the Elliott road north of Lockeford, where he engaged in 
farming for six or seven years; on this quarter section of land he set out a 
vineyard of twenty-five acres; later he sold his ranch and bought the place 
where he now resides, which is situated about four miles south of Lodi; this 
ranch contains forty acres, one-half of which is in alfalfa and the remaining 
half is set to vineyard; there are two irrigating plants on his ranch, one with 
a five-inch pump with a twelve-horsepower motor and the other with a six-inch 
pump with a fifteen-horsepower motor; Mr. Bender has also remodeled the house 
into a comfortable and modern residence.
        On October 28, 1906, in Lodi, occurred the marriage of Mr. Bender, which 
united him with Miss Pauline Schenkenberger, a native of South Dakota, born near 
Scotland, a daughter of John and Louise (Barrett) Schenkenberger. Mrs. Bender 
received her education in her native state and accompanied her parents to 
California about twenty-five years ago and here her father engaged in farming in 
the vicinity of Lodi. Mr. and Mrs. Bender are the parents of nine children: 
Herbert, Thelma, John, Jr., Roberta, Roy, Robert, Alfred, Raymond, and Willard. 
Mr. Bender is a Republican in politics and the family are identified with the 
German Reformed Church.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1521        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.