 On January 4, 1865, during the American Civil War, he was appointed to a committee to recruit men from Stuyvesant, New York.By 1878 Wendover was a director of the National Union Bank of Kinderhook.Wendover was elected President of the bank in January 1879, to succeed William H. Tobey who had died in May 1878, and remained on this post until his own death.