Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Clendenen, George W, M D 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

George W. Clendenen, M. D., Fulton, is a native of Boone Co., Va. (now West 
Virginia), and was born Dec. 4, 1844. His parents were Robert A. and Amanda 
(Hinchman) Clendenen. George W. came to Cass Co., Mich., with his parents in 
childhood, and when six years of age his father died, leaving his family in 
indigent circumstances. The subject of our sketch was left to shift for 
himself at an early age. He began by working out summers to earn money to pay 
his way through school in the winters. He attended the union school of Niles, 
Mich., till he fitted himself to enter the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, 
which he did, and passed examination in the literary department and entered 
upon the classic course. He then became a school-teacher, to provide means of 
support while he should be engaged in the study of medicine, he having 
determined to adopt that profession as his calling. He began to read medicine 
in 1872, with his brother, Dr. Floyd Clendenen, of Dowagiac, Mich., now of 
LaSalle, Ill. He soon afterward became a traveling salesman for a wooden-ware 
establishment. Carrying medical books on the various branches with him in his 
travels, he read and studied them as he could find opportunity. He came to 
Fulton in 1874, and has since made this his home. He continued on the road 
till 1876, since which time he has devoted himself to the study and practice 
of medicine. He took a regular course of lectures at the Bennett College of 
Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, of Chicago, from which he received his degree 
of M. D., March 25, 1884; and since that time he has been engaged in the 
practice of his profession at Fulton, with the very best of success. He was 
married in Tuscumbia, Ala., Jan. 15, 1869, to Miss Ellen A. Ferriss, daughter 
of E. W. Ferriss. Mrs. Clendenen was born in St. Joseph Co., Mich. They had 
four children: Blanch, who died aged two years; Gracie, who died aged one 
year; Eddie W. and Kittie G., who are living. Dr. and Mrs. Clendenen are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is also a member of Lodge No. 189, 
A. F. & A. M., and in politics is a Democrat. Although young in the 
profession, Dr. Clendenen is securing a rapidly increasing practice as a 
reward for a zealous and faithful discharge of his professional duties.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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