Talk:John R. Bender

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Nickname[edit]

Could someone explain the inevitability of his nickname?--SilasW (talk) 16:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He was a Native American, and the idea was to convey that white Americans had a narrow view of Indians at that time. But you are correct in implying the nickname was not "inevitable." I removed that word. Kgwo1972 (talk) 19:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not Native American[edit]

According to the Sutton Historical Society in his hometown, Bender was not Native American: "The 1900 census for Sutton Township shows John R. Bender to be the 18-year-old son of Jacob Bender along with three sisters and a brother, Gustaf. Jacob and John's grandparents are all indicated as having been born in Russia." [1]

Birth, Marriage, Death[edit]

John Reinhold Bender was born May 14, 1882 in Sutton, Clay Co., Nebraska. He was the son of Russian immigrants, and his mother died before 1900. He married Pearl Cassell on Sept. 15, 1909 in Knox Co., Indiana. They had 3 children, John Jacob Bender, b. 1911 in Indiana, Margaret Josephine Bender, b. 1914 in Washington, and William "Billy" Cassell Bender, b. 1917 in Tennessee.

John Reinhold Bender died July 24, 1928 in Houston, Texas.

Information from Ancestry.com and U.S. Census Records Pepper46 (talk) 00:33, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Houston Junior College and World War I[edit]

The article could be improved by being more disciplined from using retrospectively applied terms, such as the University of Houston, which was a junior college until 1934; Washington State College (1959); Kansas State Agricultural College (1931);

The article mentions a college that did not field a team in 1917-1918; also there are death or funeral articles elsewhere that indicate that the "Chief" was actually an Army "Major". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 22:35, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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