BIO: W. W. ANDREWS, Centre County, Pennsylvania Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Carolyn Wilkinson Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/ _______________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898. _______________________________________________ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, page 135 W. W. ANDREWS, M. D. Despite the healthfulness of this favored region, the aid of medical science is still invoked to counteract the encroachment of disease. Among the able men who have devoted their lives to this work is the subject of this sketch, a well-known physician of Philipsburg, Centre county, whose careful and thorough preparation for his profession, together with his native ability, early won him an enviable standing. A word concerning his ancestral history will be in order before proceeding to an account of the Doctor's own career, especially as his forefathers were among the pioneers of this State. His grandfather, John Andrews, a Pennsylvanian by birth, was a packet-boat builder at one tie, later becoming a farmer. He purchased a large tract of land in Columbia county, Penn., and although he disposed of portions of it as suitable opportunity appeared he retained a fine homestead, where he passed his last days and died at the age of seventy-six years. W. C. Andrews, our subject's father, was born in Columbia county in 1838, and after receiving a common-school education engaged in business as a cabinet maker. During the Civil war he enlisted in the Union army, served until the close of the struggle, and on his return to the ways of peace he became interested in mercantile pursuit, first at Lock Haven and for some years past at Philipsburg. His wife, Mary Lemmon, a native of Columbia county, died in 1884 aged forty-five years. Dr. Andrews, who was born April 2, 1861, in Columbia county, was the only child of his parents. The public schools of Lock Haven afforded him good preliminary training, and after graduating from the high school he took the scientific course in the state Normal School there. Pursuing his studies further, he was graduated from Dickinson Seminary in 1884, from the scientific course, receiving the degree of B. S., and in 1888 he obtained the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. From boyhood he had had an inclination for the medical profession, and before leaving Lock Haven to attend school he had begun to read medicine with Dr. Walls, of that city. An excellent opening for practice he found at Peale, Clearfield county, as surgeon for the Clearfield Coal Co., and there Dr. Andrews remained three years. In 1891 he located at Philipsburg, and in his six years of residence there has established an extensive practice among the best people of the community. Among his professional confreres his talents are recognized, and he is a member of the County and State Medical Associations, and of the West Branch Medical Society. He is surgeon at the state Cottage Hospital in Philipsburg, and has been on the medical staff of same since it was organized in 1892. In 1888 Dr. Andrews was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Jones, an attractive young lady of Philipsburg, daughter of Alfred Jones, a prominent hardware merchant. One daughter, Ruth, brightens their home. In politics the Doctor is a stanch Republican; socially he is a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F, both of Philipsburg.