Hon. William Wells Crandall, M. D., youngest son of Ezekiel was born in Genesee, March 23, 1828, educated at Alfred and Brown Universities and was a teacher in the public schools of Rhode Island for several years. He read medicine with Dr. H. P. Saunders of Alfred, and was graduated from the University of New York in 1858, and also from the New York Opthalmic Hospital. He practiced 28 years in Andover and came to Wellsville in 1886. He has been member of the Elmira and the Hornesslville Academies of Medicine, is a member of Allegany County Medical Society, and of the New York State Medical Society, of which he was made a permanent member in 1881, and vice president in 1891. He was elected member of assembly in 1872 and 1873. Dr. Crandall married Euphemia Potter, daughter of Elisha. Their only child Susie M. is married to Stetson A. Sherman of Eau Claire, Wis.
