Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....W. D. Andrews November 19 1855 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   W. D. ANDREWS, county treasurer, is a native of Barbour county and son of Dr.
W. and Martha (Daniel) Andrews, and was born November 19, 1855. His early
educational training embraced the studies usually taught in the common schools,
and subsequently, in 1877, he took a full course in Eastman's Business college
at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., receiving his diploma the latter part of that year. In
1878 he began farming in Barbour county, but two years later relinquished
agricultural pursuits and engaged in merchandising, which he continued about two
years and then disposed of his stock and accepted a position as bookkeeper with
B. B. Conner at Harris. He was thus employed till 1891, at which time he
resigned the position and became railroad agent at Harris. In addition to, his
duties as agent, Mr. Andrews is extensively engaged in farming, and is also
administrator of the large estate of his father, which consisted of 3,000 acres
of land owned jointly with B. B. Conner, and 1,500 acres belonging exclusively
to the Andrews family. Mr. Andrews has been a leading politician of Barbour
county for some years, but not until recently would he permit the use of his
name for any official position. At the earnest solicitation of his many friends
he offered himself, in the spring of 1891, as candidate for the office of county
treasurer, and such was his popularity that he was complimented by receiving the
nomination on the first ballot by a very flattering majority. Mr. Andrews is
deservedly popular with the people of Barbour county, and is certainly a
businessman of superior sagacity. He is a member of Ebenezer lodge, No. 210, F.
& A. M., and also to the Pythian order. His wife, Lena Boyer, daughter of George
Boyer, whom he married on the 25th of April, 1888, has borne him two children :
Ernestine and Rhett. Dr. Andrews' father was born in Wilkes county, Ga., in the
year 1819. He graduated from the medical department of the Pennsylvania
university, began the practice at Eufaula, Ala., in 1841, and followed the
profession there till 1859, at which time located in the vicinity of
Spring-Hill. He married his first wife, Martha Daniel, in 1842, and by her
became the father of several children, but one of whom, W. D. Andrews, is
living. Mrs. Andrews died in 1856, and three years later the doctor took to wife
Laura Wilson, who bore him three children, two of whom are living at this time,
namely : Eloise, wife of G. W. Grant; Eva, attending school at Huntsville, and
Alfred, a student of an educational institution at the town of Midway, Ala. Dr.
Andrews was a prominent member of the Methodist church and for many years
exerted a powerful influence for good in the community. He departed this life in
August, 1881.



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