Brief Life History of Phillip
When Phillip Bender was born on 10 May 1896, in Eureka, McPherson, South Dakota, United States, his father, Frederick Philipp Bender, was 36 and his mother, Elisabeth Heupel, was 35. He married Emma L. Schell on 19 September 1920. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Township 143 Range 82, Oliver, North Dakota, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 15 June 1971, in Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Garden, Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States.
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- Philip Bender, "United States 1950 Census"
- Philip Bender, "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016"
- Phillip Bender, "Find A Grave Index"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
German: occupational name for a cooper, a short form of Fassbender . Compare Bainter and Painter .
English (London): metonymic occupational name for an archer or bow maker, from Middle English bender, an agent derivative of benden ‘to bend’ (Old English bendan). Compare Benbow .
Hungarian: from bender ‘curl’, hence a nickname for someone with curly hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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