1819 The tract for Bendersville was sold to Jacob and Henry Bender by William Saddler. [1]
1835 Jacob Bender was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bendersville. [2]
1850 Jacob C Bender (age 69) and Eve Bender (age 59) lived at Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania with Cathrine (age 35), Jacob (age 14). George Persel (age 26) and Wesley Persel (age 9) lived with them. [3]
1859 A memorial for Eve Catherine Bender reports her date of death as September 27, 1859. [4]
1860 Jacob C Bender (age 78) lived at Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania with Sydney Wierman (age 25), housekeeper. [5]
1865 A memorial for Jacob C Bender reports his date of death as July 21, 1865. [6]
A biosketch reports [7]:
Jacob S. Bender. M. D., Carlisle, was born at Bendersville, Adams County, Penn., September 21. 1831. 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 Homoeopathic 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. Marengo. Ga.; Resaca. Ga.; Pumpkin Vine Creek. Ga.; Peach Tree Creek. Keuesaw 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.
[1] John Timon Reily, History and Directory of the Boroughs of Gettysburg, Oxford, Littlestown, York Springs, Berwick, and East Berlin, Adams County, PA (Gettysburg: J. E. Wible Printer, 1880), 157-159, [GoogleBooks].
[2] H. C. Bradsby, Aaron Sheely, M. A. Leeson, History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania [Adams] (Warner, Beers:1886), 308, [GoogleBooks].
[3] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial 48923821, [FindAGrave].
[5] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial 48923955, [FindAGrave].
[7] Samuel P. Bates, P. A. Durant, and J. Fraise Richard, History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, Part II Cumberland (Warner, Beers:1886), 368, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].