Can I ask for a little help? I turns out that my archive-related skills are as good as useless when it comes to locating the living: and I’d really like to contact members of the Kendall family to ask them about Captain Charles Hansford Kendall (1904-1949). I don’t know whether either of his two sons (Charles Hansford Kendall Jr and John Atterbury Kendall) are alive, but they or their children would be the first I’d like to ask.
I’m also interested in finding out more about Admiral Henry Samuel Kendall, CHK’s older brother: I wonder whether he was one of the people Commander George W. Hoover was talking about with “Project Durante“.
If anyone wants to contact me directly (e.g. for confidentiality about living people), please feel free to email me: I’m nickpelling at nickpelling dot com.
PS: Captain Charles Hansford Kendall’s obituary in the Washington Evening Star of 28th August 1949 noted that “[s]ince 1946 he had been chief of staff to the commander of the Lakehurst (N. J.) Naval Air Station”, which I’d point out isn’t quite the same as the role he had in his Associated Press obituary.
The Kendall Family Tree (incomplete!)
- Henry Simon Kendall (16 November 1855 – 28 November 1935)
married 26 Jun 1895 to Emily Carter Sclater (16 April 1865 – 16 March 1938)- Henry Samuel Kendall [Admiral] (19 April 1896 – 7 November 1963)
married 31 December 1918 to Evelyn Leroy (b. 1895 to Oscor H Leroy & Janet Puroin)
“In the early part of his career he had been a Naval aviator and also assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy Department in D.C.” [boydbooks] - Elizabeth Kendall (5 December 1897 – 5 March 1988)
married 20 Mar 1919 to Dr/Dean Paul Stilwell McKibben (1886-1941)- Paul Stilwell McKibben (4 December 1919 – 21 May 2002)
married 29 Jun 1946 to Susan Jane Boland- Barbara McKibben Varon
- Bill McKibben
- George McKibben
- Paul McKibben
- Richard Kendall McKibben (20 February 1921 – 2011)
Married 23 September 1950 to Patricia Marie Luer- Dea McKibben
- Elizabeth Thresher McKibben (28 November 1922)
- John Hansford McKibben (28 August 1928 – 1999)
Married 11 November 1957 to Costance Stephens (1933-)
- Paul Stilwell McKibben (4 December 1919 – 21 May 2002)
- Richard Carter “Carter” Kendall (20 March 1901 – 25 October 1962)
married 13 April 1931 Margaret Elizabeth Williamson (1910 – 1972)- Margaret Emilie “Peggylee” Kendall (8 February 1932 – 2020)
married Robert J. Fulmer (30 July 1931 – 17 February 2009)- Erich Fulmer
married Mary Lou Hughes (of Cortlandt Manor, NY) - Margaret Fulmer
married Jeffery Wolf
- Erich Fulmer
- Deborah Logan Kendall (29 February 1944 – 10 August 2005)
married 4 September 1971 to James Robert Glatfelter (1948-2015) - David Raleigh Kendall (8 March 1947 – )
- Margaret Emilie “Peggylee” Kendall (8 February 1932 – 2020)
- Charles Hansford Kendall (17 July 1904 – 26 August 1949)
married 16 Jul 1938 to Boudinot Atterbury Oberge (1917 – 20 February 1996)- Charles Hansford Kendall Jr (13 June 1939 – )
married 15 November 1969 to Gloria Anne Gicker (daughter of Mr & Mrs James M Gicker of Overbrook)- ?
- John Atterbury Kendall (29 January 1943 – )
married December 1967 to Ann New (June 1930?) (now Ann New Kendall [Pike?])- ?
- Charles Hansford Kendall Jr (13 June 1939 – )
- Henry Samuel Kendall [Admiral] (19 April 1896 – 7 November 1963)
Hi, John Peling.
Are you saying you’re asking for help? And so I will help you. I am very happy to help anyone who asks for it. You know nothing about the last Kendalov or what the hell his daughter’s name is.
Josef: thanks for trying to help – unfortunately it wouldn’t be right to post a child’s details online, which is why I didn’t post it up before.
@ John. A ha. Kendell is good at searching, there are poppies.
For example, the 1940 census.
Charles Kendall (born 1910) = 30 years.
wife – Beulah Kendell = 26 years.
Children. 2 sons.
Charles Kendall Junior. 4 years.
Bosie Kendall = 3 years.
Why is it good to look for Kendall?
Josef: that’s the wrong Charles Kendall – there are hundreds of Charles Kendalls. 🙁
@ John. And what about this Kendall?
Kendall Henry Samuel. Us Navy and had a submarine. He rode in the sea during the war.
Josef: yes, Admiral Henry Samuel Kendall was Captain Charles Hansford Kendall’s older brother. He’s on the Kendall family tree on this page, and I mentioned him in his own paragraph too.
John Peling: What I want to know is how come you are now answering to the name John? And why have you dropped a letter L in your surname? This is all getting rather suspicious.
Mac Noels: not suspicious enough.
@ Mr. Pelling. I forgot to write one L. I’m sorry. The bee is obviously surprised.
Otherwise, I didn’t find more about Kendall. But it’s a very nice article. Especially about the engineer who quotes Bacon there. He must have been a very smart man. Keep moving forward and not be afraid.
A look into ‘beenverified’ yields:
Charles H Kendall | Chula Vista, California
Age: 82
Phone Number:610-459-1584Addresses:533 Oaklawn Ave, Chula Vista, CA ; 10 David Dr, Thornton, PA ; 923 Old Manoa Rd, Havertown, PARelatives:Jane A Malloy, Gloria G KendallEmail:@aol.com
Seen As:Charles Hansford Kendall, Charles H Kendall Jr
Captain Kendall’s former address 923 Old Manoa Rd. Penfield/Haverton being that of Doc Thornton’s family with Gloria G.Kendall in situ looks like the best lead yet for information, as if nobody else picked up on it. Well done Thomas, but what might it all lead to Nick Pelling, pray tell?
Actually the Philly press details of Charles’ passing in ’49 got it wrong and I blindly followed that lead in puting our two PA towns Penfield and Havertown in the same b9x They are in fact a hundred miles apart with Penfield being near Dubois city, Haverton/Haverford (Old Manoa Rd.) being an outer suburb of Philadelphia, where wife Boudinot hailed from. Who knows where they got Penfield from, surely there’s something behind it and no doubt we’ll get to the bottom of the gaff.
Mr. Pelling,
Hope this is not a UFO/etc. site. Some of the entries seem rather odd.
My name is Gloria Gicker Kendall and I would be happy to assist you in any way I can. Assuredly, my information is up to date, and would fill in many of your blanks.
Please let me know if I can help.