Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Wendell A. September 9, 1840 - 
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WENDELL A. ANDERSON, M. D., son of Dr. A. W. Anderson, formerly of Cumberland 
Co., Me.; was born in Gray, Me., Sept. 9, 1840. He prepared for college at 
Gorham Academy, Gorham, Me., from 1853 to 1857, entering the Freshmen Class, 
of Bowdoin College, in August, 1857, where he remained one year. In the summer 
of 1859, he commenced the study of medicine with his father, and attended 
lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City in the 
winter of 1860 and 1861; continued his studies at the Portland School for 
Medical Instruction until September, 1861, when he entered the regular army of 
the United States, as a medical cadet, and was assigned to duty at Annapolis, 
Md. In the fall of 1862, he again attended lectures at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, where he graduated in March, 1863. In April of the 
same year, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 3d Md. V. I., with which 
regiment he served in the field at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and in all its 
subsequent engagements with the Army of the Potomac, from the Wilderness to 
Lee's surrender, having been commissioned as Surgeon in March, 1864. After the 
war, he again pursued his studies in New York, and in February, 1866, settled 
at La Crosse. From 1869 to 1873, he was Examining Surgeon for Pensions and 
City Physician of La Crosse from 1870 to 1875, and from 1877 to 1881; was 
elected a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society in 1871; was President 
of the Board of Education from 1873 to 1877, and Chairman of the Democratic 
State Central Committee in 1875 and 1876. In March, 1864, he was married to 
Susie M., daughter of John G. Small, Esq., of Boston, Mass.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 734.

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