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Wilbur J. Bender (1903-1969; Wilbur Joseph Bender, a brother of H. S. Bender, had attended Goshen College until its one-year closure in 1923-1924, then in 1925 enrolled in Harvard University from which he was graduated in 1927. At some date before 1936 he married Laura Fay, a daughter of Harvard historian Sidney B. Fay (not “Louise” Fay, as one source has it). Wilbur Bender’s main contribution to Mennonite history was his M. A. thesis at Harvard, published as “Pacifism Among the Mennonites, Amish Mennonites and Schwenkfelders of Pennsylvania to 1783,” in Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. I (July 1927), 23-40, and October 1927), 21-48, 80.

  From an obituary of Wilbur J. Bender in Harvard Crimson, apparently from an issue dated April 7, 1969 [http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/4/7/wilbur-j-bender-27-dies-at/], comes the following [quoted here with italics added]:
  In the early 30's as assistant dean, [Wilbur J.] Bender helped organize the Harvard National Scholarship program. He left Harvard in 1933 to teach at Phillips Andover Academy. He served in the Navy in World War II. After retiring from Harvard in 1960, Bender served as a director of the Boston Permanent Charity Fund and was appointed a member of the Massachusetts Crime Commission in 1963.