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Clendenin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Clendenin, American investor, soldier, and politician * David Ramsay Clendenin (1830–1895), American Union Army general * John Clendenin (born 1934), American businessman * Michael Clendenin (1934–2017), American journalist {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Clendenin
David Clendenin was a 19th-century American investor, soldier and legislator. He represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives from 1814 until 1817. Early life and career He moved from Harford County, Maryland, to near Struthers, Ohio, Struthers in the Mahoning River Valley of Ohio about 1806, residing in Trumbull County, Ohio. He became an investor with a few others in David Eaton’s early iron and steel blast furnaces in Trumbull County, one of the pioneers in the iron and steel industry. The furnaces operated until 1812 when all the men were drafted to serve in the War of 1812. Those furnaces never operated again, although others were established after the war. Clendenin was a small shareholder in the Bank of the Western Reserve, chartered in 1811/2. David Clendenin served as first lieutenant#United States, first lieutenant of Capt. James Hazlep’s company of artillery attached to a regiment of the Ohio Militia in the War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ramsay Clendenin
David Ramsay Clendenin (June 24, 1830 – March 5, 1895) was an American teacher and career officer. He served as a career officer in the United States Army from 1861 to 1891.Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . p. 176. David Ramsay Clendenin was born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania on June 24, 1830. He moved to Illinois in 1850 and graduated from Knox College (Illinois) in 1854. He was a teacher until the outbreak of the American Civil War when in early 1861 he joined the District of Columbia Militia as a private. On September 18, 1861, he was appointed a captain of the 8th Illinois Cavalry and promoted to major the same day. He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the regiment on December 5, 1862, and brevet colonel on February 20, 1865. Clendenin was one of 9 members of the military commission that tried and convicted the Lincoln conspirators from May 8, 1865, to July 15, 1865. He was mustered ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
