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BIOGRAPHIES
(Source: History of Northwestern Ohio & Auglaize County
- by C. W. Williamson - Columbus, Ohio - Press of W. M. Linn &
Sons - 1905)
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GEORGE W. ANDREWS was born in Medina, Orleans county, New
York, Sept. 1st, 1825. His father, Joel Andrews, was
a Quaker, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits. His
grandfather on the maternal side, John Lewis, was a Major
in the Revolutionary army, and was a descendant of the Lewis
family of Rhode Island, who, as Baptists, took a prominent part in
the religious controversies of the Robert Williams period.
The early education of Andrews was received at "Nine
Partners' College," in Duchess county, New York. He was also
an attendant at Oberlin College for a brief period. At the
age of eighteen he began the study of law at Granville, Ohio, and
in 1845 was admitted to the bar at Norwalk, Ohio.
Subsequently he entered the practice of his profession at Lima,
Allen County, and was at once elected prosecuting attorney.
Within the three years of his residence at Lima, he established
and edited the "Lima Argus." In 1848, he moved to
Wapakoneta, and established the "Auglaize Republican." He
was elected prosecuting attorney in 1848, and re-elected in 1850.
In 1873 he was elected to the senate of the Legislature, and was
re-elected in 1875. In 1861, at the request of
Governor Dennison, he left the Legislature, and returned home,
and within two days raised a company of volunteers, and entered
the service with the commission of captain. He was afterward
successively promoted to the rank of major, lieutenant colonel and
colonel. In 1864 he left the service and resumed the
practice of his profession. In 1873 he was elected to the
State Senate in which he served two terms. After his
retirement from the Senate, he resumed the practice of law until
1885. During the last two years of his life he was a
sufferer from lung disease of which he died Nov. 28th, 1887. |
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THE ARMSTRONGS
Source 1: History of
Western Ohio & Auglaize County - by C. W. Williamson -
Columbus, Ohio - Press of W. M. Linn & Sons - 1905 - Page 673 |
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