Dr. W. A. Hewins

    Dr. W. A. Hewins, of Chandler, was born in Ohio Township, Warrick County, Indiana, February 27, 1851, being the fourth of six children born to William H. and Matilda (Snyder) Hewins, who were natives of Geauga County, Ohio, and Lycoming County, Pennsylvania respectively. Mrs. Hewins came to Warrick County, Indiana, in April, 1829, and eight years later Mr. Hewins made settlement within the county's borders and January 2, 1844, they were united in marriage.

    The immediate subject of this memoir assisted his parents on the home farm until his majority. By close application to books he qualified himself for the teacher's profession, which he followed seven terms, and during this time read medicine at intervals, under the advisement of Dr. Charles Parke, of Millersburg. The winter of 1876-1877 he attended the Louisville Medical College, and the winter of 1877-1878 attended the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, which graduated him February, 1878. Locating, in March of the same year, at Millersburg, he practiced his profession three years in partnership with his preceptor, and since that time has resided at Chandler, where he controls a good practice.

    December 25, 1878, he married Miss Lizzie Hay, who has borne him two children: Raymond B. and Ivy Lillian. Mrs. Hewins belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Hewins is one of the county's most progressive men, and is self made in the fullest sense of the word. He is a Republican, a Mason, and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.