Charles C. Bender    

CHARLES C. BENDER has been a resident of Erie county from the time of his nativity and is a member of one of its sterling families and is a popular young business man of the city of Girard. Mr. Bender was born on the homestead farm of his father, in Girard township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1885, and is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Know) Bender, who still reside in that township, where the father is a successful agriculturist and stock-grower and a citizen of prominence and influence in his community.

He is a Republican in politics and has held various local offices of trust. Concerning their children the following brief record is entered: Louise is the wife of Edward Biegert, a successful farmer of West Springfield township; Lena is the wife of Fred Cowley, and they reside in the city of Erie, this county; Charles C. was the, next in order of birth; Walter remains at the parental home; Frank is a carpenter by trade and resides in Girard; and Adolph, Clara and Nellie remain with their parents at the pleasant farm home.

Charles C. Bender is indebted to the public schools of his native township for his early educational training, and after leaving school he continued to be associated in the work and management of the home farm for two years. During the ensuing two years he was employed in the service of the Nickel Plate Railroad, after which he held for some time the position of engineer in a factory in Girard. In 1907 he was engaged by Mrs. F. Lommer as manager of the large and finely equipped pool and billiard rooms and bowling alley of which he now has charge, and under his regime the place has attained marked popularity and success, as every attention is given to the demands of patrons and to offering the best of service, with the constant maintenance of good order. Mr. Bender has a wide acquaintanceship in his native county and is well entitled to the esteem in which he is held as one of the enterprising young business men of the city of Girard.

A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests, Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1909, pages 452-453.  More Erie County History Books   Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.