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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen & Putnam
Counties, Ohio
Containing Biographical Sketches of Many
Prominent and Representative Citizens,
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the
Presidents of the United States
and Biographies of the
Governors of Ohio
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Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen & Co.
1896
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H. M. ANDREWS |
HENRY
M. ANDREWS, a pioneer of Greensburg township,
Putnam county, Ohio, was born in eastern
Pennsylvania Mar. 2, 1824, a son of
CHRISTIAN and Susan (Marsellus)
ANDREWS. Christian
Andrews was also a native of the Keystone state,
and was born in 1803 of Irish parentage, but at the
age of three years was left an orphan. He was
reared by a Mr. Alberson to farming, and he
acquired his education from books he carried in his
hat and perused during his hours of rest in the
field and of leisure at home night and morning,
preparing himself, even in his youthful days, for
teaching school, in which vocaiton he made quite a
success. In 1823, having now passed his
majority, he was united in marriage with Miss
Sarah Marsellus, who was born in New Jersey, of
French and Irish extraction, her father having been
a soldier in the war of 1812 and her paternal
soldier in the war of 1812 and her paternal
grandfather a patriot of the war of the Revolution.
The father of Susan Marsellus was named
Henry, and his wife bore the maiden name of
Carr. To the union of Christian and
Susan Andrews the following children were born:
Henry subject of this sketch; Sarah,
widow of George Krites, of Nebraska;
HEster, deceased wife of David Mellin of
Paulding county, Ohio; David, of Gage county,
Nebr.; William, deceased; Hugh, of
Kansas; Mary wife of John Lambert, of
Kansas; Addison, also of Kansas; Elizabeth,
deceased wife of Silas Burrells, also
deceased.
Christian Andrews continued teaching for some
years after his marriage, and also learned the
carpenter's trade, at which he worked in the state
of New York until 1836, being there employed two
years in the construction of bridges. In the
year last named he came to Putnam county, Ohio, and
was one of the earliest settlers of Greensburg
township, and here, entering a tract of land,
cleared it from the forest, undergoing all the
hardships of pioneer farming, but becoming a
prosperous and prominent citizen, filling, ere his
death, which occurred in 1855, the office of
township clerk under the auspices of the whig party
for a number of years, as well as serving in a
number of other local offices. He was a
life-long member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and died in this faith; his widow, equally devoted,
dying in the same faith in 1870.
Henry M. Andrews, the immediate subject of thsi
biographical memoir, was reared both as a farmer and
carpenter, learning the latter trade under an uncle
in Defiance, Ohio. At the age of fourteen
years, however, and after learning this trade, he
was married, in 1845, to Miss Martha Bell who
was born May 18, 1825, in Beverly, Washington
county, Ohio, a daughter of William Bell was
born in Massachusetts in 1783, was a son of John
Bell and was a sailor; he made many perilous
voyages, but eventually gave up a seafaring life and
in 1824 came to Ohio, locating in Washington county.
His wife, Dorcas Hambleton, was a daughter of
Richard Hambleton, a sailor of Nova Scotia;
was born in 1784 in Nova Scotia and died in Ottawa,
Ohio, in 1859. Mr. Bell removed to and
settled in Putnam county in 1833, and died in Ottawa
in 1862, a member of the Presbyterian church and of
the Masonic order, and father of eight children, two
of whom are still living, viz.: Mrs.
Lucretia Taylor of Ashland county, Ohio, and
Mrs. Martha Andrews. To the union of our
subject, H. M. Andrews, and his wife,
Martha, have been born four children, viz:
Dr. Bazelle B., of Johnson county, Nebr.;
Freeman R., of Memphis, Tenn., Mary D.,
wife of Jacob Kitchen, and Malissa
J., wife of W. H Kitchen, of Greensburg
township, Putnam county, Ohio. After his
marriage Mr. Andrews lived on the farm
of his father-in-law until 1855, when he moved to
Ottawa, where he worked at his trade for nine years,
and then purchased the farm on which he now lives.
In 1863 he responded to his country’s call and
enlisted in company G, Twelfth Ohio volunteer
cavalry, and while on guard duty at Johnston island,
was injured by an accident which was the cause of
his being sent home for treatment; on his supposed
recovery he rejoined his regiment, but was found to
be incapacitated for duty, and was honorably
discharged as a corporal and again returned to his
home. Both Ins sons were also soldiers in the
war of the Rebellion. Dr. B. B.
enlisted in the Twenty-first Ohio, three months'
service, but served four months, re-enlisting in the
Sixteenth Illinois cavalry, and serving three years,
of which time he w as confined as a prisoner fifteen
months and ten days in the dens of Libby prison and
Andersonville. Freeman, the younger
son, saw eighteen months of actual service.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Andrews are consistent
members of the United Brethren church, and
fraternally Mr. Andrews is a member of the G.
A. R. post, No. 96, of Dupont, Ohio. Both have
passed the three score and ten years allotted to the
life of man, and for half a century have lived
together in conjugal bliss. They have won the
esteem of all who know them, and their declining
years are made happy with the thought that their
tile can be looked back upon as one of usefulness to
their fellow-creatures and as well entitling them to
the reverence which is universally accepted them.
Source: A Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and
Van Wert Counties, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: A. W. Bowen
& Co. - 1896 - Page 16 |
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