High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Curran Mendenhall was born on February 20, 1871 in Marlboro, Ohio. He died on June 2, 1957 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Mendenhall was a graduate of Ohio Normal University. He married Alice May Boutelle (born 1876) and had two children, Margaret Boutelle Mendenhall, born in 1916 in New York and Alice Curran Mendenhall, born in 1918 in Washington, DC. Mendenhall was the son of William King Mendenhall (born on December 14, 1836 in Concord, Chester County, Pennsylvania) and Emma P. Garrigues (born on November 23, 1846 in Newtown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania).