Andrew Dunnington, M.D.
 

ANDREW DUNNINGTON, M.D., of Thorntown Boone county, Ind., is a native of Putnam county, in the same state, and was born November 19, 1839. His parents were William and Mary (Douglass) Dunnington, the former of whom was born in that part of Virginia now known as West Virginia, in June, 1806, and was a son of Reuben Dunnington, a native of the same county and state, and a farmer and stockman of considerable note. Reuben Dunnington was the father of seven children, who are all now deceased. They were born in the following order, and were named John, Reuben, William, Joshua, Palatiah, Henley and Lottie. The family were of Scotch Presbyterian stock and possessed all the virtues of that sturdy race, which necessarily gave them the position in society which the exercise of those virtues always brings. William Dunnington, one of the children born to Reuben and _enume_ [sp?] rated among the family of seven mentioned above, was reared in Knoxville, Tenn., to which place his parents had removed in 1818, and there was taught tanning. About 1832 he came to Union county, Ind., where, for a few years he followed his trade, and then moved to Putnam county, where he lived until 1856, when he moved to Morgan county, where he was engaged in another branch of business until 1865, when he removed to the neighborhood of Stilesville, Hendricks county, where he died in February, 1870. The marriage of William Dunnington to Mary Douglass occurred in Putnam county, Ind., in 1834. She was a native of Kentucky, and daughter of Hugh Douglass. The children born to William and Mary numbered eight, and were named John W., Andrew, Hugh, Emeline, W. W., E. M., Eliza and Rueben C. The mother of this family was called away in April, 1845. Andrew Dunnington was reared in Putnam and Morgan counties, Ind., and after receiving his preparatory education in the Greencastle school, and the Friends' academy at Mooresville, Morgan county, attended Asbury university, now Depauw university, and next studied medicine under Dr. Green of Stilesville, Monroe County, Ind., for three years; he then attended the university at Ann Arbor, Mich., from which he graduated in the spring of 1866. His first eighteen months' practice was with his former preceptor, Dr. Green, at Stilesville, and then, for the period of fifteen years he conducted a most successful practice at Cloverdale, Putnam, county. In 1882 he located in Thorntown, Ind., where he practiced until the spring of 1891, and then for a year had charge of the Keeley institute at Plainfield; thence he went to Frankfort, Ind, where he remained until the spring of 1894, when he made a final settlement in Thorntown. On the twenty-third day of May, 1872, the doctor married, at Danville, Ind., Mary Helen Cash, who was born in that city January 8, 1846, a daughter of Coleman and James (Chambers) Cash, and by this union became the father of two children, viz: Gertrude Lucille and Guy W. The doctor and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church and in politics he is a republican; he is also a member of the I. 0. 0. F. and of the Masonic fraternity. He has been most successful in his general practice as physician, but is renowned as a specialist in catarrhal and throat troubles, in the treatment of which he has no superior in the county of Boone.
 

Transcribed by: Chris Brown
Source: "A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," pp 296-297, 1895, A. W. Bowen & CO. Chicago