Mendenhall, George
physician, author, was born May 5, 1814, in Sharon, Pa. On the organization of the United States sanitary commission at the beginning of the civil war, he was one of the associates and president of the Cincinnati branch of the commission. He was the author of The Medical Student's Vade- Mecum. He died June 4, 1874, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
MENDENHALL, JAMES WILLIAM, clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in Ohio. He was a methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Review from 1888; and the author of Echoes from Palestine; and Plato and Paul. He died in 1892.
MENDENHALL, THOMAS CORWIN, educator, scientist, author, was born Oct. 4, 1841, near Hanoverton, Ohio. He is a prominent scientist; president of the Worcester Polytechnic institute from 1894; and author of A Century of Electricity.