Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Kendall, W. M. 1869 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

W. M. KENDALL, M. D., was born in Leavenworth, Crawford county, Indiana,
December 25th, 1869. His father, William H. Kendall, was a druggist of that city
and a native of the same State. The Kendall family are of English ancestry, many
members of which have attained prominence in the dramatic world as actors in
this country and in Europe.

The father died in 1882 and the widow and three children removed to Cincinnati,
Ohio. Here Dr. Kendall took a high-school course and a course in medicine at
Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, graduating in 1892. Later he took a special
course in surgery and post-graduate course in orificial surgery at Chicago
Homeopathic Medical College. Dr. Kendall commenced the practice of his
profession in Cincinnati. He remained there three years, then removed to Dayton,
Ohio. In August, 1905, he came to California and located at Ocean Park, where he
has acquired an extensive practice. He is member of the California State
Homeopathic Medical Society and the Los Angeles County Medical Society; local
surgeon for the L. A. & P. Ry., and health officer of the city of Ocean Park. He
is a Mason, and member of the B. P. O. E. At the school election, 1908, he was,
without opposition, elected a member of the Board of School Trustees. Dr.
Kendall married, November 22nd, 1892, Miss Jessie Todhunter, daughter of W. H.
Todhunter, a prominent attorney of Middleton, Ohio. They have two children,
Marcus T. and Marion G. Dr. Kendall's home and office is at No. 207-207 1/2
Ocean Front, Ocean Park.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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