History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 418-419, Astoria Township
B. Bell Andrews, physician, located in Astoria 4 years ago,
where he built up a large practice. He was born in Ireland in
1841. His father, Henry Andrews, was a Captain of Scottish
Dragoons, was born in Scotland, where he married Miss Martha
Bell. In 1818, while in command of the arsenal in the city of
Galloway, he favored the insurrectionists and in consequence was
compelled to cross the ocean with his family for America. Dr. A.
graduated at Delaware, Ohio, Literary College and then entered the
printing establishment of Harpel Bros., Cincinnati, where he soon
became foreman. In 1864 he began the study of medicine and in '67
graduated at Starling Medical College, Ohio, and received an ad eundem
degree from the Eclectic Medical College, Philadelphia, and in 1878
Hahnemann College of Chicago conferred upon him the degree of M.
D. In 1867 he moved to Vicksburg and was appointed by Gen. O. O.
Howard assistant physician of Burea Hospital. He then went to
Jacksonville, Ill. and was appointed an instructor of printing and
idiomatic construction of sentences. While there he married Miss
Olive Sealey. He went to Carrollton and became a public lecturer
and finally came here.
