Harlan, Edgar Rubey. A Narrative History of the People of Iowa. Vol IV. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1931 p. 81 J. HENRY BENDIXEN is vice president and general manager of the Bettendorf Company at Bettendorf, Davenport. He has been closely associated with the founders of the business for a number of years, and since 1906 has held the office of vice president and manager of sales. He was born in Germany, June 12, 1870, son of Henry and Martha (Johanssen) Bendixen, who a few months after his birth came to America and settled at Davenport. J. Henry Bendixen was educated in public schools, learned the trade of machinist, and worked at his trade in davenport and Chicago for fourteen years. For four years he had charge of the machine shop of the Illinois Steel Company. Mr. Bendixen on returning to Davenport in 1894 was made assistant superintendent of the Bettendorf Axle Company, the world's largest manufacturer of steel railroad car equipment. Mr. Bendixen proved a very able ally of W.P. Bettendorf, the inventor and founder of the business since he was exceptionally well qualified in both mechanical and sales department of his business. In 1906 he became vice president and sales manager and he has continued in the same post since the death of W.P. Bettendorf and the reorganization of the company in 1913. Mr. Bendixen is also vice president of the Bettendorf Improvement Company and a director in the Bettendorf Water Company, Bettendorf Light & Power Company and the Westco-Chippewa Pump Company. His brother, Peter Bendixen, is another of the men who have through their mechanical or business genius contributed to the making of the Bettendorf Company, one of the greatest industries of Iowa. Peter Bendixen has been with the company thirty-five years,and successively as machinist, shop foreman, assistant superintendent and since 1917 as general superintendent of the company. J. Henry Bendixen is a member of the Rock Island Arsenal Golf Club, the Spring Brook Golf Club, and the Treadway Rod and Gun Club. His brother Peter is a member of the Treadway Club, the Davenport Country Club, is a director of the Davenport Chamber of Commerce and is secretary of the Iowa Manufacturers Association. J. Henry Bendixen married in 1894, Johanna Kramp, who was born in Germany. They reared their nephew, Harry Kleeburg. Harry Kleeburg is married and has two children, Johanna Kleeburg and Henry Bendixen Kleeburg. Peter Bendixen married Margaret Mumm, a native of Germany. They have two children; Harold Henry, a graduate of Purdue University, now a metallurgist with the Bettendorf Company, and Harriett, who is a graduate of the University of Iowa. Cathy Joynt Labath Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm