BIO:  W. C. SANDROCK, M.D., Oxford Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 501-502

W. C. SANDROCK, M. D., P.O. New Oxford, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1854, a 
son of Julius F. and Sophia Sandrock, the former of whom was, for upward of a 
quarter of a century, a prominent grocer of that city, and reared a family of 
four children, of whom the Doctor is the eldest.  Our subject received his 
scholastic education at Knapp’s Institute, Baltimore.  There he studied medicine 
with Dr. H. W. Webster, Jr., a prominent physician and surgeon, as well as a 
member of one of the most noted families of Maryland.  In 1872 he entered the 
College of Pharmacy, and in 1875 was graduated from that institution, taking the 
first prize in a class of fifteen.  In the same year he matriculated in the 
University of Maryland, and in the spring of 1878 graduated in medicine.  
Locating in Baltimore, he practiced five and a half years, and had an extensive 
practice, but close application to the laborious duties of a practicing 
physician caused ill health, which necessitated his removal to a more salubrious 
clime, and the smoky air of the city was exchanged, in the autumn of 1883, for a 
home in the pleasant borough of New Oxford.  In 1879 his marriage with Miss 
Louisa, daughter of Henry and Louisa Wagner, was celebrated.  Mr. Wagner was one 
of the celebrated Seventh Regiment of Hussars, Col. Baron DeMarbot commanding, 
under Napoleon Bonaparte, and was in action at Waterloo.  While residing in 
Baltimore Mr. Wagner was a teacher of languages.  He died in 1865.  To the 
Doctor and his wife two sons have been born:  Edgar and Walter.  Dr. Sandrock 
has, by reason of merit and skill, firmly established himself in practice, which 
is not only large, but is rapidly extending among the best families of this 
section of the county.  Although a young man, his education and lengthy training 
has eminently fitted him to discharge well the practice of medicine and surgery, 
and his success is all that could be desired, in both a social and professional 
sense.  He is a member of the school board, also belongs to the Patmos Lodge, 
No. 348, A. F. & A. M., of Hanover, and is a member of Adams County Medical 
Society.