From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 947-948
 
ANDREW J. RODMAN, M.D.  The name of Dr. Andrew J. RODMAN, of Delavan, has long 
been a household word to the people of Walworth county, where he has for the 
past forty years occupied a leading place in the ranks of the medical 
profession.  He has deemed it a rare privilege to carry surcease from our 
multiform ills to suffering humanity and has conscientiously as well as ably 
gone about his work in a manner that has won both the confidence and universal 
esteem of all classes.
 
Doctor RODMAN was born in Schoharie county, New York, on May 22, 1830, and 
there he spent his boyhood and attended New York Conference Seminary at 
Charlottesville, New York, and Union College, at Schenectady, from which he 
was graduated in 1853.  He began life for himself by teaching, which he 
followed several years, part of the time in the New York Conference Seminary 
at Charlottesville, later in the academy at Perry, Wyoming county, that state, 
being principal of the latter for a time, and it was while living there that 
he began the study of medicine, which he continued after coming to Delavan, 
Wisconsin, in 1857.  He practiced for some time in Woodstock, Illinois, later 
moving to Huntley, that state, practicing there sixteen years.  He was 
graduated from the Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1865.  He was appointed 
sanitary surgeon in the Union army during the Civil war, and according to his 
comrades, he was very faithful in the performance of his duties.  He returned 
home after the war and continued in the general practice of medicine, 
succeeding Doctor SUTHERLAND in Darien, Wisconsin, in October 1874, and was 
engaged in practice there about nine years.  He came to Delavan, this county, 
in the fall of 1883, and there he has since remained, enjoying a large 
practice throughout the county, having been very successful as a general 
practitioner, and kept fully abreast of the times in all that pertains to his 
profession.  He maintains an office at his residence, No. 127 South Fourth 
street.
 
Doctor RODMAN was married in 1858 to Helen A. STREETER, of Geneva, this 
county, daughter of an excellent old family, and to this union four children 
were born, namely: Carrie; Willis is deceased; as is also Archer; Helen was 
the youngest, and she is living on the Isle of Pine.
 
The wife and mother passed to her rest on January 10, 1894, and Doctor RODMAN 
was married on December 3, 1907, to Mrs. Harriet Eliza SCAFFIN, a lady of many 
estimable qualities and of a highly respected family.
 
Doctor RODMAN was alderman of Delavan for eighteen months, and he was 
president of the village board for three years here.  He is at present ably 
discharging the duties of justice of the peace, having held the same for a 
number of years.
 
Submitted by Carol