BIOGRAPHY: Frederick Andros, M.D.
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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FREDERICK ANDROS, M.D., was born in Berkeley Massachusetts, 
September 14, 1804. His early life was spent in his native place, where, 
under the tuition of his father, Rev. Thomas Andros, he prepared for 
college, entering Brown University when in the fourteenth year of his 
age, being the youngest student in the institution, and graduating in 1822 
 from the Medical Department in 1826. Thus he finished his literary 
college course at eighteen, and received his medical diploma at the age 
if twenty-two. 
 
In 1833 he came to the Territory of Michigan, which, at that time, 
embraced Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, the Territory of Dakota, and 
indeed all the Northwest to the Rocky Mountains and the British 
Possessions. Dubuque was the only point settled in Iowa. Here Dr. 
Andros made his first stand, opening an office for the practice of 
medicine in the Fall of 1833, and continuing till 1837. 
 
At this period, in consequence of ill-health, he removed to Clayton 
County and engaged in farming. His nearest neighbor at that time was 
Robert Hatfield, who lived thirteen miles distant. He continued farming 
till 1845, when he removed to Fort Atkinson, then the military outpost of 
Iowa, under the command of Captain Sumner, having received the 
appointment of Surgeon at the Fort, and also of Physician to the 
Winnebago Agency. Here he remained in the discharge of his duties till 
the Indians were removed and the Fort vacated in 1848, going thence 
with the command to Long Prairie, Minnesota. He resigned at Blue Earth, 
Minnesota, in 1854, and during that Winter was a member 
of the Minnesota Legislature. 
 
In 1861 he settled at McGregor, where he remained in the practice f 
medicine till the Fall of 1874, when the river location proving unfavorable 
to his health, he removed to Decorah, where he has since practiced his 
profession in partnership with Dr. J. W. Curtis. 
 
In this hasty outline we have failed to notice half the important incidents 
in the eventful career of on of the oldest and most highly respected 
pioneers of Northern Iowa. 
 
While living in Clayton County, Dr. Andros filled for many years almost 
every office in the gift of the people. He was the first Clerk of the District 
Court, Register of Deeds for the County, and a member of the 
Legislature at Iowa City in 1843. He is the father of five children, three of 
whom are living, having married Miss Eliza Bunker, his present wife, in 
Sherburne, New York, in 1830.