Biographical Sketch of John P. Andrews, Dallas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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John P. Andrews, a physician and farmer of Urbana, Dallas County, 
is the son of Mark and Virginia (Thompson) Andrews, and was born
in Buffalo, MO., in 1847.  Mark Andrews was born in Virginia in
1812, and was a physician by profession, practicing medicine for
several years in Dinwiddie County, VA., before his removal to
Dallas County, MO., where he also engaged in the practice of his
profession until his death, which occurred in 1866.  He had 
twelve children, of whom nine are now living, viz.:  Martha Darby
(only child by a previous marriage), Virginia Fletcher, Emily
Darby, Lucy Reser, Harriet Coon, Joseph Andrews, Susan Darby, Mark
Andrews and John P. Andrews.  The paternal grandfather of our sub-
ject died of small-pox in the army, during the War of 1812.  John
P. Andrews spent his early life in Dallas County, MO.  He sub-
sequently attended college at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and later read
medicine with Drs. Slavens & Vaughn, of Urbana, having previously
been engaged in school-teaching.  In 1873-74 he taught in the 
Urbana High School, and the following year the Morrisville School.
In 1876-77 he had charge of the Dadeville School, and in 1877-78
was principal of Rondo Institute, Polk County.  In 1881 he entered 
the St. Louis Medical College, which he attended three consecutive
terms, graduating in 1884.  He then returned to Dallas County, and
immediately began the practice of his chosen profession at Urbana,
in partnership with Dr. Vaughn, his former preceptor.  In 1874 Dr.
Andrews married Miss Ritha Hightshoe, who was born in Indiana in
1849, and is the daughter of David and Elizabeth (Burne) Hightshoe,
natives of Ohio and West Virginia, respectively.  Of the seven 
children born to Dr. and Mrs. Andrews, five are now living, viz.:
Henrietta V., Zula R., Alice, Rolla and Bessie.  The Doctor is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he 
sympathies are with the Republican party.
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