WI BIO - Lafayette Co - ANDREWS, Charles & George W.

Biography of Charles ANDREWS [Town of Fayette; father of George W.]
History of Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 
1881, p 792

Charles, ANDREWS, farmer, Section 23, P. O. Argyle, Lafayette County, WI. 
Born 14 Jun 1833 in Crawford County, PA. In August 1853 he started for the 
Wisconsin pineries and worked some time near Grand Rapids [now Wisconsin 
Rapids, Wood County], leaving for Lafayette County, where he bought, in 1857, 
his present farm of David JOLLY, which he has improved since, owning now 410 
acres here and 120 acres in [the state of] Iowa, besides buildings and lots 
in Argyle. He lived in the village of Argyle from 1872 to 1880, then 
returned to the farm. In 1859 he [Charles ANDREWS] married Miss Jane 
McMANUS, of Pennsylvania. They have four children: George W. [whose 
biography follows], John, Willard, and Lizzie. Mrs. ANDREWS' mother lives 
with them, aged 81. He [Charles] had held school offices, and is a 
Greenbacker.

Biography of George W. ANDREWS [son of Charles]
Commemorative Biographical Record of Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and 
Lafayette, Wisconsin, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and 
Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families. Chicago: 
Beers, 1901, pp 174-175

Rev. George W. ANDREWS, Union evangelist, who now makes his home in Milford, 
Dickinson County, Iowa, is a representative of one of the early families of 
Lamont Township, formerly a part of Fayette Township, Lafayette County, 
Wisconsin. Charles ANDREWS, his father, was born in Crawford County, 
Pennsylvania, 14 June 1833, son of Robert ANDREWS. The family is of Irish 
origin, but came to America in colonial days. As Robert ANDREWS died when 
his son Charles was but nine years of age, the latter was thrown largely on 
his own resources at a very early age. The mother, however, was a most 
excellent and capable woman, and reared her children to be honorable and 
useful members of society. She [Mrs. Robert ANDREWS] died at the age of 
eighty-nine years.

In August 1853, Charles ANDREWS, accompanied by his brother William R., left 
Pennsylvania and located in Wisconsin. They worked in different parts of the 
State before coming to Lafayette County [Wisconsin], and in 1857 made their 
permanent settlement in the township of Fayette, now Lamont. William R. died 
at his home in June 1900, leaving a family of four sons and four daughters. 
Charles ANDREWS purchased the farm in Section 23, of David JOLLY, a well 
known old settler, and eventually became possessed of 400 acres besides land 
in [the state of] Iowa. He [Charles ANDREWS] married Miss Jane McMANNUS, a 
native of Pennsylvania, who came to Lafayette County with her parents, George 
and Sarah McMANNUS, in 1855. George McMANNUS died at the age of sixty-six, 
and his wife [Sarah] at the age of eighty-seven years; they had but two 
children: George, who lived to be nineteen; and Jane, who became Mrs. 
ANDREWS.

Charles ANDREWS was long a prominent and well known citizen, honorable and 
successful in his business career, and ever held in high esteem as an 
energetic and progressive citizen. He was ever ready to help the 
unfortunate, and was greatly beloved by his friends. Socially he was 
identified with the Masonic [p 175] fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. His [Charles ANDREWS'] death occurred 
in Jan 1899, and his wife [Jane (McMANNUS) ANDREWS], who survives him, lives 
at Argyle. They [Charles and Jane (McMANNUS) ANDREWS] were the parents of 
four children: Rev. George W.; John H., a resident of Lamont Township; 
Lizzie, and Willard.

Rev. George W. ANDREWS was born on the old homestead 14 May 1861. When he 
was eleven years of age his father removed from the farm to the village of 
Argyle, in order to give the children the benefit of an education. He was 
but twenty years of age when he was married, and immediately after marriage 
returned to the homestead farm in Lamont, and for two years engaged in 
agricultural pursuits. He then moved to his present home in Dickinson 
County, Iowa, where he has a fine farm. In Feb 1891 Mr. [George W.] ANDREWS 
was converted, and he has ever since labored with all the earnestness and 
enthusiasm of his nature to spread Christ's kingdom in the hearts of men. 
Since 1896 he has been engaged as a Union evangelist, and while the major 
portion of his work has been in the State of Iowa, he has made some stirring 
appeals in the vicinity of his old home in Wisconsin. He has been eminently 
successful in his religious work, his sincerity touching the hearts of his 
hearers and making his appeals more convincing.

George W. ANDREWS married Miss Luella Jane GOODMAN, who emigrated from 
Cornwall, England, in 1856, and were early settlers of the township of Wiota, 
Lafayette County, Wisconsin. They now make their home in O'Brien County, 
Iowa. The children born to this union [of George W. and Luella Jane 
(GOODMAN) ANDREWS] are six in number, three sons and three daughters: 
Charles G., Lela May, Lavinia J., William C., John H., and Lenore ANDREWS.

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