BIO: William CLENDENIN, Cumberland County, PA
    
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    >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
    Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 43-44
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    CUMBERLAND COUNTY.  43
    
    WILLIAM CLENDENIN. Elsewhere it has been shown that the first John
  Clendenin, who settled in Cumberland county, was married to Janet Huston.
  John and Janet (Huston) Clendenin, among other children, had a son John, who
  was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and rose to the rank of captain.
  He married Elizabeth Caldwell, a sister of Martha Caldwell, the mother of
  John Caldwell Calhoun, the southern statesman. John and Elizabeth (Caldwell)
  Clendenin had tell children, four sons and six daughters. Their second child
  was a son named William, born in 1785, and his genealogical line is the
  subject of this sketch.
    During his life time the father of William Clendenin became seized of a
  farm, lying on the State Road in the northwestern part of East Pennsboro, now
  Silver Spring township. which afterwards was for a long time owned by Daniel
  Fought and his heirs Captain Clendenin made his will in May, 1802, which was
  probated in August, 1802. In it this farm stands bequeathed to his son
  William, and on it in 1814, William began farming on his own account, his
  sister Elizabeth keeping house for him. On March 7, 1816, he was married to
  Mary Wallace, who was born Feb. 22, 1800. With the exception of a period of
  about three years, during which he was in poor health, this farm was William
  Clendenin's home for the rest of his lifetime. He died Jan. 22, 1835, and his
  remains were interred in the Pine Hill graveyard, the earliest public
  graveyard in that part of the county. His widow remained upon the farm until
  in the spring of 1837, when she, with her family of small children, moved to
  New Kingstown. William and Mary (Wallace) Clendenin had children as follows:
  Elizabeth, Robert Wallace, Isabella, William and Mary A., all of whom were
  born on the old farm on the State Road in Silver Spring township. Isabella
  died May 16, 1836, at the age of ten years, and was laid to rest in Pine
  Hill graveyard.
    Mrs. Mary Clendenin lived at New Kingstown until in the spring of 1839, and
  then moved to New Castle, Mercer, now Lawrence, county, where she lived all
  the rest of her days. She died Oct. 29, 1886, and is buried at New Castle.
  She was a woman of rare qualities of head and heart, and a genial, commanding
  person in whatever community she lived. Her memory was remarkable, and among
  her kinsfolk and neighbors mooted questions were often referred to her as
  arbiter, and whatever "Grandmother Clendenin's" recollection was on the
  subject was readily acquiesced in.
    Elizabeth, the oldest child of William and Mary (Wallace) Clendenin,
  married at New Castle, Henry Falls, and early in the fifties moved to
  Cincinnati, Ohio, where Mr. Falls engaged in the carpet business. During the
  Civil war they returned to New Castle, where in 1873 Mr. Falls died and was
  buried. Afterward his widow returned to Cincinnati, and died there in 1894.
  Her remains are interred in Spring Grove cemetery at Cincinnati. Henry and
  Elizabeth (Clendenin) Falls had one daughter and two sons, viz.: Elizabeth
  died when yet a child. and William H. and John C. are living in Cincinnati,
  the former a successful practicing physician, and the latter a druggist.
    When Mrs. Clendenin moved from the farm to New Kingstown, her son. Robert
  Wallace, was put with friends in Carlisle, where he lived until in September,
  1840, when he followed the rest of the family to New Castle. At New Castle he
  entered a dry goods store while yet a boy, and acquired a thorough mercantile
  training. Thus equipped he, in 1848, started in business for
    
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  himself at the corner of Washington and Mercer streets, New Castle, and he
  has continued in that business on the same corner ever since. In 1846 he
  married Belinda, daughter of Dr. Joseph Pollock, a noted physician of his
  day. Their children are William Wallace, Joseph Pollock, Wells Bushnell, John
  McMillan and Mary E. Joseph Pollock died in childhood, and John McMillan died
  in 1870, at the age of sixteen. William Wallace married Marguerite Davis;
  Wells Bushnell married Mary Boyles, daughter of George V. Boyles, of New
  Castle, and Mary E. married Edward Hadnett Ward, of New York. who died in
  1903, leaving one daughter, Helen C. All the survivors of the family are
  living at New Castle, and are conducting the business of R. W. Clendenin &
  Sons. Robert W. Clendenin and wife are still (1904) living, he having reached
  the great age of four score and one years.
    Mary, the third child of William and Mary (Wallace) Clendenin, married B.
  B. Pickett, attorney of New Castle. After their marriage they located
  permanently at Meadville, Crawford county, where Mrs. Pickett died in 1894,
  leaving surviving her husband and five children. The children are Lydia,
  Mary, Benjamin B., Jr., Lucy and William Clendenin. Benjamin B. Pickett, Jr.,
  is an attorney at Meadville, and in 1894-5-6 was district attorney of Crawford
  county, William Clendenin is a physician and professor of nervous and mental
  diseases at the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. The three daughters
  are living at Meadville.
    William, the youngest child of William and Mary (Wallace) Clendenin,
  studied medicine and became a famous surgeon. In 1861 he entered the army,
  and was given charge of the Emory Hospital, at Washington, D. C. Later he was
  on the staff of General Rosecrans, and when the war closed was
  Assistant Medical Director of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he
  helped to organize the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, in which he
  became professor of Anatomy and Surgery, and at the time of his death, May 3,
  1885, was Dean of the Faculty. At one time he was appointed Consul to St.
  Petersburg, but declined the honor, preferring to remain at home and devote
  himself to his profession.
    Dr. William Clendenin married Sabra Burchard and had two children. William
  and Mary. Mary died while a child. William married Adelaide Logan at
  Cambridge Springs, Pa., who died in 1900, leaving one child, a daughter named
  Mary, who is living with Mrs. Sabra Clendenin, her grandmother, at Meadville.
  William lives in Chicago.
    Evidently there was a traveling streak in this branch of the Clendenin
  family, for of the fifteen descendants of William and Mary (Wallace)
  Clendenin who grew to maturity, ten visited the different countries of
  Europe, five attended the best schools of Europe, four visited the three
  different continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and one circled the globe.