Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....J. W. Drewry September 27 1827 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   J. W. DREWRY, M. D. - The subject of this sketch, the oldest practicing
physician in Eufaula, and one of the best known medical men of southern Alabama,
was born in Hancock county, Ga., on the 27th day of September, 1827. After
receiving a liberal education, he began his professional studies in 1847 under
the able management and instruction of Dr. White, of Milledgeville, with whom he
remained one year, and then entered, the Medical college of Philadelphia, Penn.,
from which he graduated in the class of 1849. He remained in Philadelphia for
some time after receiving his degree, and in the fall of 1850 opened an office
at Americus, Ga., where he practiced one year, thence moved to Barbour county,
Ala., locating at Spring Hill, where on account of failing health he abandoned
the profession for a time, and engaged in the more congenial pursuit of
agriculture. Subsequently he resumed the practice in connection with planting
and resided at Spring Hill until 1866, at which time, seeking a wider field for
the exercise of his professional ability, he removed to Eufaula, where, with the
exception of a brief period of service in the hospital at Atlanta during the
war, he has since practiced his profession with a success which has placed him
in the front rank of medical men in his part of the state. All the qualities
that go toward making up the popular and successful physician are well defined
elements of his character, and during his long period of residence in Barbour
county his reputation has continued to grow in public favor, and although at an
age when most professional men think of retiring from active life, he is still
in active practice with a large and lucrative business. The doctor is a member
of the Methodist church, as is also his wife, and stands high in Masonic
circles, being a royal arch Mason. In 1851, in Jones county, Ga., he was united
in marriage to Miss A. E. Ethridge, who has borne him five children: Stella,
wife of J. G. Guice; John, cotton merchant at Dothen, married Anna McDonald of
Cuthbert, Ga.; Carrie, wife of John P. Foy, banker of Eufaula; James A,,
superintendent of Bluff City mills, Eufaula, married Mamie Harrison of Barbour
county; and Lillie, wife of A. C. Mitchell of Eufaula. The name of the doctor's
father was John Drewry, a native of Virginia, who, when a young man, moved to
Hancock county, Ga., where he first followed the tailor's trade, and later
engaged in planting. After his marriage with Elizabeth Wallace, he moved to the
county of Putnam, thence to Hancock county, and finally to Alabama in 1857,
settling in Barbour county, where he died in 1857; his wife survived him several
years, dying in 1872. John Drewry was a very successful farmer, and everything
to which he turned his hand appeared to prosper. He was a descendant of an old
and highly honorable Virginian family which came came to America in colonial
times, and settled near the point which is still known by the name of Drewry
Bluff, a place of historic interest in the Old Dominion.



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