History of McArthur, (Vinton County) Ohio United States of America

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Dr Andrew Wolf, physician, was born, July 19th, 1810, in Athens county, Ohio, and is the third of ten children whose parents were Christopher and Rhoda (Dorr) Wolf. His father was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, of German lineage, and principally engaged in farming, although he was interested in milling and in the manufacture of salt; he settled at an early day in Athens county, where he married Rhoda, daughter of Matthew Dorr; she died in 1856. Andrew worked on a farm until he was twenty years old, and attended school in winter. In 1830 he entered the Athens Academy, where he pursued a literary course for some three years; towards the close of his studies there he commenced to read medicine under the supervision of Dr. Columbus Bierce, of that place. He then went to Washington county, New York, where he continued his medical studies under the guidance of Dr. Jonathan Dorr, of Cambridge, in that county, and during his three years sojourn from home also attended medical lectures at the Vermont Academy of Medicine, graduating there with honor. Returning to Athens, Ohio, he passed the winter there, and thence removed to McArthur, Vinton county, where he has since resided, and has established an extensive and remunerative practice; his surgical skill is extraordinary. He has labored incessantly and energetically in his profession for upwards of forty years, and having ever been a man of most temperate habits possesses at his advanced age a powerful body and temperament. Politically he is a Republican, having originally been a Henry Clay Whig. His religious belief is that of the Episcopal Church. He was married in 1836 to Eliza, daughter of Captain Robert Lotridge, of Rensselaer county, New York; she died in 1859, having had two children. He was a second time married, in 1860, to Pauline Bryan, also a native of Rensselaer county, New York.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

History of McArthur, (Vinton County) Ohio

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