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Birth:          5 May 1814 Sharon, Mercer Co., Pa.
Death:          4 Jun 1874 Cincinnati, Ohio
Burial:         Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Notes
1981 book (see for details)
familysearch
1850 in Cincinnati, Ohio physician says b Ohio 2 servants
1860 in Cincinnati, Ohio physician says b Pa 2 servants
1870 in Cincinnati, Ohio physician 3 servants

http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Hamilton/HamiltonChapXII.htm
George Mendenhall.-A native of Beaver county, Penn.. where he was born May 5, 
1814, and a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 
1835, Dr. Mendenhall came to Cincinnati in 1843, and remained a resident of the city 
up to the time of his death June 4, 1874. Very soon after settling here he became one 
of the physicians of the Cincinnati Dispensary, and shortly afterward was a lecturer in 
a summer school of medicine which was carried on for several years. In 1852 he was 
one of the organizers of the Miami Medical College, taking the chair of Obstetrics and 
Diseases of Women and Children. In 1857, upon the consolidation of the school with 
the Medical College of Ohio, he was appointed to a like professorship, and held it until 
the union of the colleges was dissolved in 1860. Five years later, upon the 
reorganization of the Miami Medical College, he resumed his former chair, which he 
continued to fill up to the time of his death. In 1869 he was elected president of the 
American Medical Association, and in 1872 was honored by election to the Fellowship 
of the Obstetrical Society of London. For two years (1850-52) he was an associate 
editor of the Western Journal, and early published a " Vade Mecum " for students 
which ran through many editions.

wrote many texts

http://famousamericans.net/georgemendenhall/
MENDENHALL, George, physician, born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, 5 May, 1814; died 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, 4 June, 1874. He studied medicine in Salem, Ohio, and was 
graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. He 
settled in Cincinnati in 1843, and there acquired a large practice, making a specialty 
of obstetrics, in which he held a high rank. He was professor of that branch in the 
Miami medical college, where he was also dean. 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. In this capacity, 
with his wife's aid, he rendered valuable services to the work of that body. After the 
close of the war they continued their philanthropic work in other directions, and were 
distinguished for their charitable labors. Dr. Mendenhall was a fellow of the Royal 
obstetric society in England, and in 1870 was president of the American medical 
association. In 1854, with other physicians, he established the "Cincinnati Observer," 
and also contributed to other medical journals. He was the author of "The Medical 
Student's Vade-Mecum" (Philadelphia, 1852).

Cincinnati Queen City on google books (saved as gif files)
Transactions of the Annual Meeting By Ohio State Medical Society on google books 
(saved as gif files)

Ohio Biographical Sketches, 1876, on ancestry:
Physician, was born at Sharon, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, May 5th, 1814, his 
parents being Aaron and Lydia Mendephall. His descent runs down from the early 
Quaker settlers of Pennsylvania, one of his paternal ancestors having taken a 
prominent part with William Penn in the "Elm Tree Treaty" with the Indians. His mother 
was a sister of the Hon. Joseph Richardson, Speaker of the House of Representatives 
of Ohio from 1818 to 1822, During his early childhood his parents removed to 
Columbiana county, Ohio, where, when quite a youth, he entered the office of Dr. 
Benjamin Stanton, of Salem, Ohio, as a student. In 1835, when he was less than 
twenty-one years of age, he graduated with credit at the University of Pennsylvania. 
In May of that year he went to Cleveland and at once entered upon a successful 
practice. In 1837 he was appointed Resident Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, 
where he remained but a few months, when he resumed his practice at Cleveland. In 
October, 1838, he was married to Elizabeth S. Maule, of Philadelphia, formerly of 
Richmond, Virginia. In 1843 he was attacked with a pulmonary disease, which 
threatened permanent loss of health and compelled him to abandon the lake region for 
a more genial climate. He settled in Cincinnati in October of that year. His health was 
impaired, he was among strangers, but by a strong energy and the help of his devoted 
wife his circumstances, at first discouraging, soon brightened. He associated himself 
with others in the conduct of the City Dispensary, a charitable medical institution, with 
no compensation to the attending physicians. They also organized a summer school of 
medicine, which was carried on successfully for years; and in 1852 organized the 
Miami Medical College. The prevalence of cholera from 1849 to 1852 entailed upon 
him very great labor, but he lost only a single day from sickness. All through the 
twenty years dating from that time he labored unremittingly as a practitioner, as a 
medical teacher and as a contributor to medical journals. "Mendenhall's Vade Mecum" 
was one of the most successful books of the class ever published. In the year 1870 
he was elected I'resident of the American Medical Association, and shortly before his 
decease had conferred upon him the high honor of a fellowship in the Obstetrical 
Society of London. His reputation as an obstetrician was indeed world-wide. During 
the rebellion he was President of the Cincinnati branch of the Union Sanitary 
Commission. Dr. Mendenhall fell a victim to overwork. He was stricken down with an 
attack of apoplexy in the year 1872, from which he never fully rallied. He subsequently 
visited Europe for his health, and died after his return, June 4th, 1874, in the sixty-first 
year of his age. He was a man of indomitable promptitude, and despised one who 
shirked duty; was ever unsparing of himself, and in his practice was so systematic and 
continuous that the amount of labor he accomplished was the astonishment of his 
professional brethren. His love for his profession was such that it amounted to a 
passion. His greatest happiness was in its practice. He never used tobacco nor 
alcoholic stimulants, nor would he, from conscientious motives, prescribe the latter for 
his patients, excepting in very rare cases, and then with extreme reluctance, from fear 
of the formation of an evil habit. He was firm as a rock for the right; but gentle, 
modest and kindly as a woman; free from all vanity, hating pretence, with an 
exceeding love of truth, a warm, loving heart and the most delicate sense of honor. A 
professional brother said of him, he "never had the privilege of knowing a man whose 
virtues and talents so strongly commanded his regard." 

Parents
MENDENHALL Aaron ()
RICHARDSON Lydia E. ()

Siblings
MENDENHALL George M. (5 May 1814 - 4 Jun 1874)

Marriage To MAULE Elizabeth Shoemaker (8 Oct 1819 - 31 May 1905)
    m. 5 Oct 1838 Philadelphia, Pa.

Notes

Parents
MAULE Caleb Johnson (1795 - 10 Feb 1837)
SHOEMAKER Rachel (26 Mar 1797 - 12 May 1875)

Children by MAULE Elizabeth Shoemaker 8 Oct 1819 - 31 May 1905
MENDENHALL Charles (29 Jul 1840 - 6 May 1898)
MENDENHALL Lydia (27 Feb 1842 - 27 Feb 1842)
MENDENHALL Laura Jane (7 Jun 1843 - 4 May 1845)
MENDENHALL Emma C. (13 Jun 1848 - 13 Jan 1934)
MENDENHALL George (18 Feb 1849 - 6 Jul 1850)
MENDENHALL Elizabeth (21 Oct 1852 - 20 Feb 1853)
MENDENHALL Lawrence (5 Jun 1855 - 30 Dec 1924)

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