Dr. Samuel Bender was born in Maryland in 1795, a son of Henry Bender, who was born in Germany and who came to the United States about 1785. The family afterward moved from Maryland to Pennsylvania, thence in 1818 to Madison, Indiana, and there, in 1820, Dr. Bender married Miss Mary A. Dawes, a native of Boston, a daughter of Caleb and Susan Dawes, who came to this country from England in 1778 and settled first in New York and later in Boston. Dr. Bender was by trade a carpenter, was a skillful workman, and built the first winding stairs west of the Alleghany Mountains. He fitted himself for the practice of medicine in the Medical Department of the Transylvania University, did his first work in this line in Tennessee, and in 1841 became a resident of Dade County, Missouri, and eventually one of the most successful physicians of that section, his services being called into requisition for many miles around. He died in 1867, having first been a Whig and later a Republican in politics. He was a surgeon in the Union Army for a short time during the war, was a member of the Christian Church and an active worker in the same. He reared the following children: Selina H. b 1821, Annetta b. 1824, Serena b. 1827, Alexander C. b. 1829 Amanda b. 1831 Henry Clay b. 1834, Ormel C b. 1836, Mary Cyrella b. 1838, Oscar H. b.1841.
[obituary contributed by Sandra Miranda]
[obituary contributed by Sandra Miranda]
Dr. Samuel Bender was born in Maryland in 1795, a son of Henry Bender, who was born in Germany and who came to the United States about 1785. The family afterward moved from Maryland to Pennsylvania, thence in 1818 to Madison, Indiana, and there, in 1820, Dr. Bender married Miss Mary A. Dawes, a native of Boston, a daughter of Caleb and Susan Dawes, who came to this country from England in 1778 and settled first in New York and later in Boston. Dr. Bender was by trade a carpenter, was a skillful workman, and built the first winding stairs west of the Alleghany Mountains. He fitted himself for the practice of medicine in the Medical Department of the Transylvania University, did his first work in this line in Tennessee, and in 1841 became a resident of Dade County, Missouri, and eventually one of the most successful physicians of that section, his services being called into requisition for many miles around. He died in 1867, having first been a Whig and later a Republican in politics. He was a surgeon in the Union Army for a short time during the war, was a member of the Christian Church and an active worker in the same. He reared the following children: Selina H. b 1821, Annetta b. 1824, Serena b. 1827, Alexander C. b. 1829 Amanda b. 1831 Henry Clay b. 1834, Ormel C b. 1836, Mary Cyrella b. 1838, Oscar H. b.1841.
[obituary contributed by Sandra Miranda]
[obituary contributed by Sandra Miranda]
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