Dr. John Talcott MENDENHALL
- Born: 8 May 1913, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Marriage (1): Dr. Sarah "Sally" Louise CORNELL on 9 Dec 1942 in New York City, New York County, New York
- Died: 7 Mar 2003, Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin at age 89
- Buried: 19 Apr 2003, Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin
 General Notes:
ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 9th Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
FAMILY: Grandchild of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake
MILITARY: World War II, U.S. Navy officer in England and landed at Normandy where he set up a hospital in a nearby French town
TRIPS: England (1926); Bermuda (1938)
NOTEWORTHY: M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School;
Chief of the V.A. Middleton Hospital Surgical Service, Wisconsin;
President of the Wisconsin Surgical Society;
Member of the Madison Literary Society;
Published paper on the medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition;
Founding member of the reorganized Mendota Yacht Club (1930)
Research Notes:
-- Mendenhal Family Association (http://mendenhall.org/mfa/tng/getperson.php?personID=I29849&tree=Mendenhall2010)
-- Find A Grave, Memorial # 86643297
John married Dr. Sarah "Sally" Louise CORNELL, daughter of John Black CORNELL and Louise Havemayer JACKSON, on 9 Dec 1942 in New York City, New York County, New York. (Dr. Sarah "Sally" Louise CORNELL was born on 4 Jan 1917 in New York City, New York County, New York, died on 12 Oct 1999 in Westport, Dane County, Wisconsin and was buried on 6 Nov 1999 in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.)
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