Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Thomas Jefferson MENDENHALL
Thomas moved with his parents to Ohio while he was quite young and spent his early boyhood there. But as he approached manhood, he returned to his birthplace to prepare himself for the life work he had selected, the medical profession. He was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College and subsequently, resident physician for the Kirkbride Hospital, a private asylum for the insane, where he remained for three years.
After his marriage he moved back to Delaware, where he practiced for six years. In the spring of 1857 he went to Missouri and selected Palmyra as a place of residence. There he was engaged in a large practice for nine years, part of the time being the riotous period of the Civil War. He taught classes at St. Paul's College in Palmyra on natural sciences and physiology. Thomas practiced medicine in Palmyra from 1857 to 1866. In 1866 he moved to Chicago, where he remained for two years, returning again to Missouri in 1869, locating in Monroe. Shortly after the death of his first wife, he again returned to his boyhood home and resumed active practice.
Thomas was one of the most faithful and efficient members of St Jude's Church, serving as a member of the vestry for thirteen years, as treasurer for nine years and as Junior Warden for nearly three years. When the parish was not financially able to engage a sexton, Thomas acted in that capacity with unostentatious regularity with no other thought than that the Church might be in proper condition to receive the worshipers.
In the winter of 1898, feeling that he would like to see his children and his grand-children once more, he went west to make them a visit. While there he became, for the first time, a victim of that disease so dreaded by old people, the grippe, and this proved to be the beginning of the end. He never recovered from the effect of that attack. He spent one year with his children in Montana, and then returned to Monroe for the tender care of his daughter, Mrs. Aaron Boulware, and her family, growing more feeble in body and mind until he died.
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