John Bender and his great-grandson
about 1940

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Harriet Wiggins Bender with her granddaughters Helen and Dorothy Doyle, early 1920s. Harriet was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Wiggins, one of the earliest settlers in El Monte, California. He arrived there in about 1852.