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JOHN W. BENDURE, one of the most successful real estate men at Steubenville, where he has resided for fourteen years, was born in Belmont County, Ohio in 1854 and there was reared and educated. Mr. Bendure entered into business life in the grocery trade, locating at Middletown, in Guernsey County, where he continued in business for fourteen years, after which he went into the general merchantile business at Fairview, W. Va. He remained there for seven years, and then came to Steubenville, becoming identified with the Singer Sewing Machine Company. For five of the nine years that he was associated with that company, he was manager of the business of five counties. Mr. Bendure then entered into the real estate line and has made it very profitable through his method of buying vacant property and improving it and subsequently selling. He handles his own property exclusively. On April 5, 1874, Mr. Bendure was married to Miss Mary Jane Brown, who is deceased. He was married secondly in November, 1883, to Miss Lena Melvin, and they have one child, John M. Mr. Bendure and family are members of the Second Presbyterian Church.  Return to Family Tales
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