History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV, p. 296,
Pendleton County

     HENRY A. W. BENTLE, had a busy career for many years as a farmer
and rural mail carrier, and as an occupation to furnish him employment
for his retirement he is now a stockholder in the Boyd Milling Company
at Boyd and bookkeeper and general manager of those mills.
     Mr. Bentle was born in Kenton County, Kentucky, December 18, 1856,
a son of John A. and Mary (Harlan) Bentle.  His father was born in
Sheffield, England in 1826, came to the United States when a young man
and located at Cincinnati, where he met Mary Harlan who was born in
Bavaria, Germany, in 1824, and had also lived in Cincinnati from
girlhood.  After their marriage they moved to Kenton County, Kentucky,
lived on a rented farm for a year, and then bought land in Pendleton
County, where they achieved prosperity and a competence and lived and
died.  They were active members of the Lutheran Church, and John A.
Bentle was an elder and president in his church for many years.  There
were only two children, William dying in infancy.
     Henry A. W. Bentle grew up on the home farm in Pendleton County and
had a public school education.  On February 11, 1879, he married Anna M.
Eckert, who was born at Moscow, Ohio, August 3, 1860.  After their
marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bentle located on the old homestead, and he
continued its cultivation for many years and for fifteen years carried
mail on the rural delivery out of Falmouth.  Mr. Bentle sold his farming
interests in 1920 and bought his home in Boyd and also some stock in the
Boyd Flouring Mills.  He is a republican in politics and is a very
prominent member of the Masonic Order.  He is a past master of Onon
Lodge No. 22, F. and A. M., is a high priest of Hauser Chapter No. 16,
R. A. M., and past eminent commander of Cynthiana Commandery No. 16, K.
T., and a past worthy patron of Eastern Star No. 87 of Falmouth.  Mr.
and Mrs. Bentle are members of the Presbyterian Church.
     Eleven children were born to their marriage and ten are still
living: John A., deceased; Marie, wife of Fred Engelberg; William H., a
farmer in Pendleton County; Carrie, wife of John W. Brandt; L. A., a
farmer in Dearborn County, Indiana; Minnie, wife of a Walter McMillan of
Hamilton County, Ohio; George, a farmer in Dearborn County, Indiana;
Emma, wife of Walter C. Doan, of Dearborn County; Alfred O., of
Pendleton County; Joseph R., a farmer in Pendleton County; and Edwin W.,
a farmer in Dearborn County, Indiana.

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