Andros, Frederick Dr. 1802 – 1895

ANDROS, BUNKER, BENTON, BIRKHOLZ

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Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Source: Decorah Republican May 2, 1895 P 1 C 3

THE PIONEER M. D. OF N. E. IOWA.
Death of Dr. F. Andros at the advanced of 92 Years.
Dr. Frederick Andros, once a resident of this city for a few years, but for a long period a dweller in Clayton county, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. L. M. Benton, in Minneapolis, last Friday, after a lingering illness. He had lived to the age of ninety-two years, and at various periods of his life was a moving factor in events which are now of great historical interest.
Dr. Andros was born Sept. 14, 1802, at Berkeley, Mass. He was the son of Rev. Thomas Andros, who was noted throughout New England for his classical and theological learning. After receiving a thorough classical education Frederic Andros studied medicine with one of the best known surgeons of New England at that time. He removed to Western New York, settling at Plymouth, whore he married Miss Eliza Bunker, a direct descendant of the original owner of Bunker Hill. For two years he lived in Canada, then removed to Detroit, and in 1834 he joined a party starting for the lead mines of Illinois and Iowa. He located at Dubuque, and was the only physician west of the Mississippi then legally entitled to practice his profession. In 1838 he took a claim in Northern Iowa. In 1843 the doctor was elected to represent Northern Iowa in the territorial legislature. In 1846 he was appointed physician to the Winnebago Indians, then located about Fort Atkinson, and when they were removed he went with them to Long Prairie. Minn. In 1854 Dr. Andros, then stationed at Blue Earth, whither the Winnebagos had been removed, was elected to the Minnesota legislature to represent the northern part of the state. Later he returned to his Iowa homestead, where he resided until 1861, and then removed to McGregor, Iowa. When the C. M. & St. Paul railway was completed to Mitchell he removed thither from Decorah (where he had been living, as a partner with Dr. J. Wilbur Curtis,) and made that place his home until failing health compelled him to retire from practice.
Dr. Andros leaves two daughters and a son. They are Mrs. L. M. Benton, of Minneapolis, Mrs. John Birkholz, of Grand Forks, and R. S. S. Andros, of Pomona, Cal. Dr. Andros had been a Mason seventy years, and was buried by that fraternity.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he died April 28, 1895 and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN.