George H. Bend

George Hoffman Bend (August 3, 1838 – February 15, 1900) was an American banker, member of the New York Stock Exchange, and a prominent member of New York society during the Gilded Age. Early life Bend was born on August 3, 1838, in New York City. He was the second son of seven children born to William Bradford Bend and Catherine Ann (née Thomas) Bend. His siblings were: William Bradford Bend (1837–1905), who married Isabella Tomes (1840–1916), Katharine Ann Bend (d. 1901), who married James Kennedy Whitaker, and Elizabeth Pelham Bend (ca. 1845–1933), who married Henry Asher Robbins (1829–1914), a founder of the Waltham Watch Company who owned the Asher House in Southampton. His paternal grandparents were Reverend Dr. Joseph G. Bend, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Baltimore, who married a granddaughter of Mary Boudinot, sister of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress from 1779 to 1783. His daughter, Susan Boudinot, married William Bradford, the Attorney General in President Washington's second cabinet. His maternal grandparents were Philip Thomas and Frances Mary Ludlow, who married in 1807. Thomas, a close friend of Abraham Schermerhorn, was the son of Philip Thomas and Sarah Margaret Weems, daughter of William Weems, of Calvert County, who married in 1782. Frances was the daughter of James Ludlow and Elizabeth Harrison, herself the daughter of architect Peter Harrison. James, the tenth of twelve children born to William Ludlow, was a 1768 graduate of Columbia College and the grandson of Captain George Duncan and Gabriel Ludlow, who established the Ludlow family in America, coming to New York from England in 1694. Gabriel, a father of thirteen, became one of the most successful merchants in New York. Gabriel's ancestry is traced to Edward I of England, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Philip III, of France.