Biographical Sketch of Dr. Lewis WINDLE (1881); Chester County, PA

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From THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);

Page 771

WINDLE, Dr. Lewis -- Lewis Windle married Mary Stroude, to whom were born twelve 
children, of whom the fifth was Lewis.  He was born Jan. 17, 1819, in West 
Fallowfield township.  He passed his boyhood on his father's farm, educated in 
the common schools, and afterwards attended the Unionville Academy of professor 
Jonathan Gause, where he was classically educated.  He began reading medicine 
with Dr. Isaac Thurman Warld, and attended lectures at the Washington 
University, at Baltimore, where he graduated in high rank march 3, 1846.  He 
immediately began the practice of his profession at Brandywine, where he 
remained one and a half years.  He then removed to Cochranville, where he was 
engaged in a very large and successful practice uninterruptedly to his death, 
April 20, 1879.  During his extended practice of thirty-three years he purchased 
the farm in Highland township where his widow, Sarah Baker Windle, now resides.  
He was married June 8, 1859, to Sarah Baker, daughter of Thomas and Ann 
(Rakestraw), by whom he had five children,--Horace L., Lewis B., T. Frank, Annie 
M., and William Clinton. 
Dr. Windle was noted as a skillful and learned physician, and was highly 
esteemed by the medical fraternity and the community at large.  He was a member 
of the Baptist Church at Atglen, which his family attends.  He was a Whig and 
subsequently a Republican, and was active for his party, although he was never a 
candidate for office.  He was respected for his many personal qualities of heart 
and mind, and the impress of his busy life was largely felt in great good done 
to humanity in his profession of the healing art and of surgery.