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Surnames: Gorrell
Classification: Bible
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20th Century Souvenir Edition of the Ossian News. January 1st, 1900, page 53.
Dr. Andrew G. Gorrell, one of our leading physicians, noted for his careful and
conservative treatment of disease, was born in Warren, Ohio, of parents who were among the
first to brave the dangers of the untried Western wilderness, as Indiana was called half a
century ago. The doctor came of good old Scotch-Irish stock -- a race whose firy (sic)
ardor not even the chilly blasts of adversity could dampen -- a people of strong religious
inclinations: integrity inherited for many generations.
The young doctor-to-be spent his early boyhood days in the clearing with the ax, and on
the stumpy field behind the plow. He received his early education at Ossian, and fought
his way upward against the many exigencies and difficulties that confronted him. When the
war broke out in 1861, he was one of the first to offer himself to his country, and from
September, 1861 to February, 1866, he followed the flag with the passion, vehemence and
patriotism that characterized his early fathers. On a hundred hard-fought battle fields
he received that experience which influenced his life.
After his discharge, at the close of the war, the subject of the sketch began the study of
medicine with his brother. Dr. J. R. Gorrell of Newton, Iowa, -- finishing at Ann Arbor,
Michigan. He holds a diploma from the medical department of that noted institution as
well as one from the medical department of the state university of Iowa.
Dr. Gorrell practiced successfully many years in the west as well as in Indiana. His
health, however, obliged him for a time to quit active practice in Iowa, where he was
becoming widely known because of his careful and painstaking study of and treatment of
disease.
In 1895, the doctor began work in his present territory, his efforts soon gained him a
wide patrionage (sic). He is an active church worker, a patriotic, conservative citizens,
a type of our representative men of Ossian.