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JOHN P. ADDIS.     The efficient and honored superintendent of the Scioto County Infirmary, in Washington Township, has been prominently identified with various lines of enterprise in this county, where he is the owner of a finely improved farm and other valuable realty, and where he commands secure vantage-place in popular confidence and esteem, as is evidenced by his being called to the exacting office of which he is now the incumbent and in which he is giving a most effective and satisfactory administration.
     Mr. Addis was born in Sims Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas and Joan (Phillips) Addis.  Thomas Addis was born in Adams County, this state, in 1840, and is a son of Rev. Freeman Addis, who likewise was born in Adams County, a member of a sterling pioneer family of that county.  Rev. Freeman Addis became a clergy man of the Baptist Church and labored with much of consecration and zeal in the uplifting of his fellow men.  He finally removed from his native county to Lawrence County, where he purchased and established his home on a farm, in Sims Township.  While giving his personal supervision to his farm he continued his earnest services as a minister and he held the reverent affection of those who came within the sphere of his benignant influence during the course of his long and useful life.  He was well advanced in years at the time of his death, and he and his noble wife reared a family of eight children - Isaac, Thomas, Barbara, Benjamin, Barton, Mary, Lewis and Margaret.  At the inception of the Civil war three of the sons, Isaac, Thomas and Benjamin, enlisted in defense of the Union, and all continued in active service until the close of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation was perpetuated.  Barton, the fourth son, likewise enlisted in 1861, and he sacrificed his life on the field of battle.  Lewis, the youngest of the sons, was too young for enlistment until the final year of the war, when he entered the ranks and made an admirable record as a youthful patriot.  The father was beyond the age limit for military service, but he zealously applied himself in recruiting soldiers and caring for the families of those who had gone to the front, as well as widows and orphans of soldiers who had fallen in battle.  He amplified his patriotic service by serving as a trainmaster in the moving of Union forces during the last part of the war.  During his entire adult life this sturdy clergy man and patriot was unflagging in his support of the principles of the democratic party, and from this political faith his sons and other descendants have not departed.
     Thomas Addis was about ten years of age at the time of the family removal to Lawrence County, where he was reared to manhood under the discipline of the home farm and attended the pioneer schools, besides having the benignant influences of a home of marked culture and refinement.  He was about twenty-one years old when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation and he promptly tendered his services in defense of the Union.  Crossing the Ohio River, he enlisted as a private in the Second Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he saw active and arduous service during the earlier part of the war.  After receiving his honorable discharge he returned to Ohio and within a short time thereafter he re-enlisted, as a veteran.  At this time he became a member of the One Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the command of General Thomas, and he continued in active service for some time after the final surrender of Generals Lee and Johnston.  Upon receiving his honorable discharge for a second time, he returned to his home in Lawrence County, with a record of faithful and gallant service as a soldier of the republic and as one who had taken part in many important engagements.
     Turning his attention once more to the pursuits of peace, Thomas Addis purchased a farm in Sims Township, Lawrence County, and in addition to giving effective supervision to the cultivation and improvement of his farm he developed also a prosperous enterprise in the burning of charcoal, which he sold and delivered to various iron furnaces in the vicinity.  In 1890 Mr. Addis sold his farm and removed to Scioto County, where he purchased a good farm, in Madison Township.  On this homestead he remained until 1913, when he sold the property, and he now resides in the home of one of his daughters, at Waterloo, Lawrence County, having retired after long years of earnest and fruitful endeavor.  His wife was born in Aid Township, Lawrence County, and was a daughter of Henry and Rebecca Phillips.  She was summoned to eternal rest in 1894, at the age of fifty-five years, and is survived by six children - John P., Barton, Minnie, Hattie, George and Bertha.
     To the district schools of his native township, in Lawrence County, George P. Addis is indebted for his early education, and when a lad of but twelve years he became a productive worker, as a driver of one of his father's teams and as an assistant in various departments of the farm work.  He remained at the parental home until he had attained to his legal majority and then made a trip to the South, but he was not sufficiently impressed with the advantages and attractions of that section of the country to make there a definite location.  Upon his return to Ohio he engaged in farming and the cutting of timber in Jefferson and Madison townships, Scioto County, and a few years later he turned his attention to contracting in the construction of public highways.  While thus engaged he purchased a farm in Harrison Township, as well as village property at Harrisonville, where he established himself in the general merchandise business, to which he continued to give his supervision until May, 1914, when he was appointed superintendent of the county infirmary, the office of which he is now the incumbent.
     Mr. Addis cast his first presidential vote in support of Grover Cleveland and he has since continued a stalwart advocate and upholder of the cause of the democratic party, in the local affairs of which he has been prominent and influential.  He is at the present time a member of the Democratic County Committee of Scioto County and also of the party's executive committee in this county.  While a resident of Jefferson Township Mr. Addis served as assessor, constable and land appraiser, and in Harrison Township he was called in turn to the offices of assessor, land appraiser and justice of the peace, besides having served fifteen years as a member of the election board of the township.  He is a charter member of the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Harrisonville, where he is also affiliated with the camp of the Sons of Veterans, his father being a valued and appreciative member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and he holds membership also in the Modern Woodmen of America and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.  Mrs. Addis is a zealous member of the Baptist Church and has been a popular figure in church and social circles.
     In the year 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Addis to Miss Julia Delaney, who was born at Scioto Furnace, a daughter of John and Mary (Wolfe) Delaney, both natives of Pennsylvania.  From the old Keystone State Mr. Delaney came to Scioto County, Ohio, where he remained for several years, and after the death of his wife he returned to Pennsylvania, which continued to be the place of his residence until his death.  Mr. and Mrs. Addis have eight children, namely: Bertha, Minnie, Lillie, Edward, William, Thomas, Emma and Floyd B.
 Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 993

FRANK S. ALLEY.     As superintendent of the Valley Township schools at Lucasville, Mr. Alley has performed a service during the last five years which creates in his administration a new epoch in the history of education in this vicinity.  Mr. Alley has had a long experience in the educational field, covering more than thirty years, and is an exponent of progressive, and practical ideals that have been signally exemplified in the schools of Lucasville.  Having been a teacher all his active life, Mr. Alley has likewise been a student, and by his experience has worked out plans and methods which in other places as well as at Lucasville have been applied in making the schools vital institutions for the welfare of the rising generations.
     Frank S. Alley was born in Franklin County, Indiana, on a farm, gained his early schooling there, and began teaching in the country at the age of seventeen.  His work as a teacher alternated with that of student in higher schools for many years.  He was subsequently graduated at the Brookville High School, following which he taught both in the country and in the Brookville High School, and in 1890 was awarded his master's degree at Moorshill College, where he had previously completed the scientific course.
     Mr. Alley in 1881 became principal of the Fairhaven school in Preble County, Ohio, remained there three years, then became superintendent at New Paris in Preble County, and during that seven years of service was also for a time a member of the county board of school examiners.  In 1890 Mr. Alley was granted a life certificate by the state board of education after an examination.  In 1891 he became superintendent of schools at Ripley, Ohio, remained there six years, was for four years superintendent of the city schools at Dayton, Kentucky, and for three years at Bellevue, and then returned to Ohio and for three years was superintendent of the schools at Greenfield.
     Mr. Alley took charge of the Lucasville schools in 1909.  Since that time the fine new high school building has been erected, for which he drew the plans, and which in its equipment and arrangement is regarded as one of the best rural high school buildings in Ohio.  At the same time he has raised the class of the Valley Township schools from third to first, and the State University recognizes the high school as one of the best in any rural community in the state.  The school not only prepares pupils for entrance to the State University in any of the courses, but also has a strong department in agriculture, manual training and domestic science.
     Mr. Alley first married Lydia M. Riker.  There are four sons: Orris, who is a graduate of the high school and of the Campbell Business College at Cincinnati and is now connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; Charles, who graduated from the Inland Printer Technical School at Chicago, is now with the Elbert & Richardson firm of printers at Cincinnati; Bruce and John are both graduates of the high school and are connected with the Yale Motorcycle Company of Toledo.  Mr. Alley's present wife was Emma J. Baker.  The family are members of the Methodist Church.  Mr. Alley is affiliated with the Masonic Order, having taken the Knights Templar degrees, and in politics is a republican.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1338 -

THOMAS C. ANDERSON.     A well-known and highly respected member of the Scioto County bar, Thomas C. Anderson, of Portsmouth, takes an active interest in local affairs, and as a landholder is identified with he advancement of the agricultural prosperity of this part of the state.  A son of Thomas Anderson, Jr., he was born in Chauncey, Athens County, Ohio, of pioneer ancestry.
     Thomas Anderson, Sr., his paternal grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, was an early settler of Fairfield County, Ohio.  Buying a tract of land near the present site of Lancaster, he cleared an opening, and in the log house which he built subsequently lived until his death.  He married Magdalene Mechlen, whose parents were also pioneers of Fairfield County, the original Mechlen farm, near Lancaster, joining the Anderson homestead.
     Thomas Anderson, Jr., was born on the parental homestead, near Lancaster, Ohio, in 1829, and in the pioneer schools of his day acquired a practical education.  Preferring some other occupation than that of a farmer, he went to Chauncey on leaving school, and was there for a time employed as clerk at the salt works.  In 1852, lured westward by the call of gold, he started with his brothers for California, sailing from New York.  When but a short distance from land, he was accidentally shot, receiving a serious wound.  There being no surgeon on board, the ship landed, and he was taken to a hospital in Philadelphia, where his death occurred when he was but twenty-three years of age.
     The maiden name of the wife of Thomas Anderson, Jr., was Louisa Cutler.  She was born in Amesville, Athens County, Ohio, a daughter of Charles Cutler, and granddaughter of Ephraim and Leah (Atwood) Cutler, while her great-grandfather, Manasseh Cutler, the New England statesman and patriot, who took a very active part in the early settlement of Ohio, and was largely instrumental in successfully carrying through the famous Ordinance of 1787, which dedicated the whole territory of which the settlement at Marietta was a part to freedom, education and religion, Manasseh Cutler belonged to a prominent New England family, whose history has been published in two volumes.  Ephraim Cutler, son of Manasseh Cutler, came to Ohio in 1795 as agent for the Ohio Company, of which he was a stockholder, and, with his family, lived at the garrison in Waterford until 1799, when he moved to Ames.  Very prominent in public affairs, he served as a member of the Territorial Legislature, and also of the first constitutional convention.  An extended account of his life appears in the "History of Athens County," published in 1869, C. M. Walker being the editor.
     Mrs. Louisa (Cutler) Anderson being left a widow when young, with one child, Thomas C. Anderson, married for her second husband Dr. Lorenzo Fuller, of Amesville.  She did not live many years thereafter, dying at the age of thirty-seven years.  By her second marriage she had two sons, William Fuller and Louis Fuller.
     Doctor Fuller was very kind to his stepson, Thomas C. Anderson, and not only offered to educate him, but would willingly have had him share equally with his own sons in his estate.  Mr. Anderson, however, decided to live with his uncle, Samuel H. Anderson, who occupied the old Anderson homestead.  He had previously laid a good foundation for his future education in the Amesville schools, and at a seminary.  He therefore entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, where he was graduated with the class of 1871.  Turning his attention then to the study of law, Mr. Anderson read elementary text books until 1872. when he entered the law office of Moore, Jackson & Newman, in Portsmouth.  Admitted to the bar by the district court during the same year, he immediately began the practice of his profession in Portsmouth, where he has since continued most successfully, from 1875 until 1880 having been in partnership with J. W. Bannon, and later with Judge George M. Osborn.  Mr. Anderson is interested in agriculture, and devotes a part of his time to the management of his farm, which lies two miles out from the city, and though he does not specialize in stock raising he takes great pride in his fine herd of Jersey cattle.
     Mr. Anderson married, in 1876, Ida Frances Cole, daughter of Capt. Amos B. Cole, and granddaughter of Silas W. Cole, a pioneer of Portsmouth.  Silas W. Cole was born in Chenango County, New York, Aug. 2, 1797, and there learned the trade of a wagon maker.  Going to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1819, he taught English in a German school for a short time, and then, with two companies, came in a skiff to Portsmouth, Ohio.  Locating in Washington Township, he followed his trade until 1825, when he took up his residence in Portsmouth.  Becoming prominent in public affairs, he served as clerk, overseer of the poor, health officer of Wayne Township, president of the town council, street commissioner, and was also county commissioner and infirmary director.  His death, which occurred Jan. 6, 1867, was mourned as a public loss.  Silas W. Cole was twice married.  His first wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Huston, was a daughter of William Huston, and the grandmother of Mr. Anderson.  She died in 1861, and he married for his second wife Antoinette Squires.
     Amos B. Cole was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1827. and in the public schools acquired his early education.  In 1846, at the age of nineteen years, he enlisted as a soldier, and with his command proceeded to Mexico, where he served with courage until 1848, when he returned to Portsmouth, and embarked in the insurance business.   Enlisting for service in the Union Army during the Civil war, in 1862, he was commissioned, on Aug. 22, 1862, captain of Company F, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was with his regiment until Dec. 19, 1864, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability.  A man of intelligence and ability, he was influential in the management of local and county affairs.  He was clerk of the Scioto County courts from 1873 until 1879; and served one term as representative to the State Legislature, and for two terms as state senator.  He died at his home in Portsmouth, Sept. 3, 1897.
     Amos B. Cole married, in 1851, Martha E. Orme, who was born in Scioto County, a daughter of John Orme, and granddaughter of John Orme, Sr., and his wife, Elizabeth (Graham) Orme, pioneers of the county.  John Orme married Phylura Hayward, who was born in Vermont, Oct. 16, 1808, a daughter of Moses Hayward.  Her grandfather, Capt. Caleb Hayward, was born and reared in Scotland, and having emigrated to America in colonial days settled in Connecticut.  Moses Hayward was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1766.  In 1787 he migrated to Vermont, locating in Norwich, where, in 1793, he married Hannah Smith.  In 1814 he removed with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from there coming, in 1816, to Scioto County, Ohio.  Settling in Union Township, he bought land, and in addition to carrying on general farming was engaged in the manufacture of buckskin gloves.  He lived to the venerable age of ninety-four years, passing away Oct. 2, 1866.
     Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have reared seven children, namely: Clifford, Bessie Louise, Martha Kate, Lottie L., Charles Levi, Mary E., and Hayward M.  Bessie L. is the wife of Charles Lyman Frederick, and has two children, Lyman and Martha.  Martha Kate married Alan N. Jordan, and they have two children, Mary Frances and Alan N., Jr.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1298

WILLIAM B. ANDERSON.     This name of a prominent Portsmouth merchant bespeaks an extensive relationship with pioneer families in Southern Ohio, including the Warwicks, the Russells, the Hibbs, Lucas and others.  The Andersons have been active in local business affairs for many years, and William B. Anderson is president of the Anderson Brothers Company and president of the Portsmouth Board of Trade.
     He was born at Howards Mills, Kentucky.  His father, the late George Washington Anderson, was born in Bath County, Kentucky, Jan. 18, 1830.  Grandfather William Anderson, a native of Virginia, left that state for Kentucky, and spent the rest of his days on a farm in Bath County.  He married Fanny Graham, whose father was Judge Graham, of Virginia.  George W. Anderson began his business career at the age of sixteen, as clerk in his uncle's store in Mercer County, Kentucky, and two years later became clerk on the steamboat Blue Wing, running between Frankfort and Louisville.  Six months of that and he returned to Mercer County, and in 1856 went to Cincinnati to take a course of training in Bartletts Commercial College, and remained for a time as one of the teachers.  From 1857 until the winter of 1859-60 he had a store at Howards Mills, Kentucky, following which he was successively engaged in merchandising at Camargo for two years and then at Mt. Sterling.  The war was in progress, and Mt. Sterling was raided by John Morgan's band.  Being apprised of the enemy's approach, Mr. Anderson secreted his most valuable goods in some coffins owned by an undertaker who, while a southern sympathizer, was a true friend of the merchant.  By this little strategy the goods were saved, but on a second raid by the same band his store was cleaned out and he determined to remove to the north side of the Ohio River.  Accordingly, in October, 1864, he moved to Portsmouth and with Peter Helms opened a store on Market Street.  When peace came a few months later, he returned to Mt. Sterling, but in February, 1867, began a more permanent connection with Portsmouth as a business man.  His store this time was on Second Street at the corner of Court, but in the fall it was removed to a building erected for him by Dan McFarland in the same block.
     The only other interruption to his career as a Portsmouth merchant came in 1872, when he sold out and went to Kansas and tried both merchandising and farming in the Sunflower State, being member of the firm of J. F. Warwick & Company.  Having disposed of his Kansas interests in 1874 and returned to Portsmouth, George W. Anderson bought the shoe store of R. M. Lloyd & Company on Chillicothe Street.  The stock was later moved to Second Street, occupying the west half of the building later the home of the Hibbs Hardware Company, on the north side of second between Court and Market.  While in that location W. B. Anderson became associated with his father under the firm name of G. W. Anderson & Son, and the subsequent admission of Eugene G. Anderson changed the title to G. W. Anderson & Sons.  A stock of dry goods was added in 1886, and a change made to more commodious quarters in the Huston Stone Front, opposite, but after nine years the store was moved to near the Washington Hotel.  That remained the place of business until after the death of George W. Anderson, which occurred Oct. 8, 1895.
     On Oct. 22, 1857, George W. Anderson married Annie Warwick.  Her father, Dr. Beverly G. Warwick, was born in Nelson County, Virginia, Dec. 25, 1805, a son of Nelson Warwick, and was liberally educated for the time.  In 1825 he taught in Nelson County at Bethel Church, moved to Augusta County in 1827, teaching three years near Waynesboro, and for four years followed the same work at Staunton.  In the meantime he had studied medicine under Dr. T. Reynolds, and in 1837 attended lectures in the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati.  Beginning in 1838, he practiced a year at Deerfield in Augusta County of his home state, and then at Middlebrook, Virginia, until 1856.  In 1857 he was graduated from the Miami Medical College and the following winter attended Ohio Medical College, which also gave him a diploma.  Doctor Warwick was also a minister of the gospel, having been licensed as a local preacher of the Methodist Church in 1850 and in 1857 was ordained a deacon by Bishop Morris.  Doctor Warwick came to Portsmouth in 1858, but the following year removed to Lucasville, where he kept a general store and drug store, besides other professional activities, and lived there until his death on June 14, 1880.  Doctor Warwick married, Sept. 19, 1833, Mary Fisher, a daughter of Anthony Fisher, of Churchville, Virginia.  She died Feb. 1, 1902, the mother of seven children.
     George W. Anderson and wife had thirteen children, and those who grew up were: William Beverly; Maggie M., wife of Dr. J. N. W. Crawford; Sallie J., who died at Cincinnati Oct. 13, 1901, the wife of Dr. F. H. Williams, of Portsmouth; George B., who died at Cincinnati Jan. 13, 1902; John Frank; Charles N., president of the Anderson-Newcomb Company, of Huntington, West Virginia; Eugene G., president of the Western Dry Goods Company, Seattle; Preston H., in the department store of Hale Bros., San Francisco; Warwick W., secretary and treasurer of the Anderson Bros. Company, Portsmouth, Ohio; Nelson R., an attorney, of Seattle; and Crawford, secretary of the Western Dry Goods Company, Seattle.
     William B. Anderson was a pupil in public schools until sixteen, and then began a practical business experience which has covered forty-one years.  His first work was in his father's store, and in 1878 he was made a partner.  In March, 1900, the store was removed to its present location on Chillicothe Street, the building having been erected for the company by Doctor Crawford.  In 1903 Mr. Anderson acquired title to the adjoining building, and now the extensive stocks of the various departments occupy four floors in the two buildings.  In 1904 the firm was incorporated as Anderson Brothers Company, with Mr. Anderson president, Charles N. Anderson vice president and Warwick W. Anderson secretary and treasurer.  Since then Russell W. Anderson has come into the company as second vice president.
     Besides being executive head of one of the chief mercantile houses of the Hanging Rock region, Mr. Anderson is vice president and director of the Security Savings & Trust Company, a director of the Breece Manufacturing Company, vice president of the Anderson-Newcomb Company, of Huntington, West Virginia.  He is president of the Portsmouth Board of Trade, and for many years has been public spiritedly identified with both the commercial and civic welfare of this city.
   William B. Russell, father of Mrs. Anderson, was educated in early life for the profession of physician, but did not complete his course in medical college, and turned his attention to agriculture and horticulture on his farm in Brush Creek Township. Later he came to Portsmouth to give his children school advantages and became accountant in the hardware store of his brother-in-law, J. L. Hibbs.  He died at Portsmouth at the age of seventy-five.  His first wife was Rhoda Hered, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Kendal) Hered.  Her five children were named George, John, Joseph, Carrie and Ellen.  The second wife, and the mother of Mrs. Anderson, was Rebecca Lucas Hibbs.  She was born in Union Township of Scioto County, Aug. 3, 1825.  Her father, Jacob Hibbs, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania Nov. 5, 1793.  Jacob's father was Aaron, one of the first settlers in Adams County, Ohio, having located near the present site of Locust Grove about 1800.  Aaron married Catherine Humphreys, and he died in 1852 and she in 1846.  Jacob Hibbs assisted in clearing a farm from the wilderness and after his marriage removed to Union Township, in Scioto County, where he died in 1852.  His marriage to Rebecca Lucas introduces another interesting family into this record.  Her father. Judge Joseph Lucas, was born in Virginia in 1771.  His father, William Lucas, was born in Virginia in 1742, and Feb. 13, 1777, enlisted for three years in the Second Virginia Regiment and served with the rank of captain.  In Virginia he was a large planter, operating with slave labor.  In 1800, having sold his Virginia estate, he moved into the Northwest Territory to join his sons, who had preceded him as pioneers.  He located at Lucasville and died there in 1814, being buried in the Lucasville Cemetery with military honors appropriate to his service as a Revolutionary soldier.  Judge Joseph Lucas had come into Ohio in 1797, accompanied by his brother William, for the purpose of locating their father's land warrants, and settled at the mouth of Pond Creek, in what is now Rush Township, Adams County, then.  Joseph Lucas was well educated and took a prominent part in affairs, being one of the three who represented Adams County in the first session of the State Legislature.  At the session beginning in March, 1803, at Chillicothe, Scioto County was organized, and he was one of the men appointed associate judge of the new county, an office he held until his death in 1808.  Joseph Lucas married Hannah Humphreys, and they reared three sons and three daughters.
     Mrs. Anderson was one of six children, namely: Charles F., William L., Edward W., Mary G., Ida and Mabel Russell.   Mr. W. B. Anderson and wife have reared seven children, named Maud, Russell W., Ann E., Margaret, William B., Jr., Richard L. and John L. Maud is the wife of Arthur N. Horr, and has two children, Beverly David and Arthur N.  Russell W. Anderson married Ruth C. Pontius.  Ann E. is the wife of Oliver Morton Shumway.  Mr. Anderson and wife are members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is president of the board of trustees and has been superintendent of the Sunday School twenty five years.  His fraternal membership is in Aurora Lodge No. 48, A. F. & A. M., Mount Vernon Chapter No. 23, R. A. M., Solomon Council No. 79, R. & S. M., and Calvary Commandery No. 13, K. T.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 807

GEORGE B. M. ANDRE.     Engaged in the successful practice of his profession at Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Doctor Andre is numbered among the representative physicians of his native county and is a scion of a well known pioneer family of this section of the state.  He was born on a farm near Powellsville, Scioto County, on what is locally designated as the French Grant, and in the same neighborhood were born and reared his parents, his father having been one of the substantial farmers and influential citizens of Scioto County at the time of his death and the mother still maintaining her home in this county.  Of the ten children the following brief data may be consistently given: William V. is a successful farmer of Scioto County; Joseph C. is engaged in farming in Lawrence County; Doctor Andre, of this review, was the next in order of birth; Clarence L. is a substantial farmer of Scioto County; Carrie is the widow of William Hamerstein and still resides in this county; Andrew J. likewise is a progressive agriculturist of the old home county; Lillian is the wife of Luther Wheeler, likewise of Scioto County, her husband being a farmer and also operator of a saw mill and a threshing outfit; James C. is also to be designated as one county; of the effective exponents of the agricultural industry in his native Blanche C. is the wife of Thomas S. Collet and Bertha is the wife of William Emory, both of Scioto County.
     Doctor Andre was reared under the sturdy discipline of the home farm and that he made good use of the advantages afforded him in the public schools of his native county is shown by the fact that at the age of twenty-one years he proved himself eligible for pedagogic honors and became a successful teacher in the schools of Scioto County.  He was thus engaged for seven years, at the expiration of which he was able to follow out the course of his ambition and well formulated plans, by entering Miami Medical College, in the City of Cincinnati, in the year 1894.  He completed the prescribed curriculum of this excellent institution, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1897 and from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He began the practice of his profession in the Village of South Webster, Scioto County; where he remained fifteen years, within which his practice became inclusive and representative throughout that part of the county and his earnest and effective work gave to him high standing among his confreres in this section of the state.  In 1912 the doctor established his residence and professional headquarters at Wheelersburg, where he has fully maintained his success and popularity both as a physician and as a citizen of progressiveness and sterling worth.  Doctor Andre is actively identified with the Scioto County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society; is affiliated with Western Sun Lodge, No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons; is a charter member of Wheelersburg Lodge of the Knights of Pythias; and in polities he is aligned as a loyal supporter of the principles and policies for which the democratic party stands sponsor.
     On the 7th of November, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Andre to Miss Alice Gifford, who likewise was born and reared in Scioto County.  Of the five children all are living except the third, Alma May.  The surviving children who form a bright coterie in the happy home circle are Edna M., Earl R., Ralph G. and George E.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1186