Jefferson T. Adamson, pp. 868-870

The subject of this sketch, a prosperous and well-to-do farmer of Hardin county, was born in Hardin township near his present place of abode on the 6^th day of March, 1857, being the third of four children whose parents, Samuel and Lydia Ann (Cabb) Adamson, moved to this part of Iowa about 1850 and settled one and one-half miles north of Iowa Falls.  Samuel Adamson was a native of Ohio and by occupation a tiller of the soil.  On coming to Hardin county, he located on a prairie farm which he brought to a high state of cultivation and otherwise improved and by persevering industry and good management became in due time one of the leading agriculturists and representative men of the township honored by his citizenship.  He did much to promote the material growth and prosperity of the locality in which he resided, and died in 1865, at the age of forty-two years, leaving a widow and four children, the names of the latter being as follows:  Marietta, who married James Adamson, of Wetmore, Kansas; Sylvanus, a farmer living near Ambrose, North Dakota; Jefferson T., of this review; and Uree D., wife of Charles W. Harr, of Douglas, Wyoming.  Some time after the death of Mr. Adamson, his widow married John W. Caldwell, an enterprising farmer who departed this life at his home south of Iowa Falls in 1890, since which time she has made her home with her children.

Jefferson T. Adamson spent his early life in his native township, and after his mother�s second marriage lived with his step-father, Mr. Caldwell, until his eighteenth year.  In the meantime he attended the public schools at intervals until acquiring a knowledge of the branches taught therein and while still quite young learned the important lesson of self-reliance and began laying plans for his future.  Having decided to become a tiller of the soil, for which he early manifested a strong predilection, he purchased, when eighteen years of age, a part of his present farm in Hardin township and, addressing himself manfully to its cultivation, soon forged to the front among the most enterprising and successful young farmers of the community.  Subsequently he was enabled to add to his farm until it now includes one hundred and sixty acres of fine land, the productiveness of which has been greatly enhanced by more than twenty-three hundred rods of drain tiling, while the buildings and other improvements are among the best in the township.  In addition to raising all the grains, vegetables and fruits grown in this latitude, Mr. Adamson devotes a great deal of attention to live stock.  In the matter of swine, he has earned a reputation much more than local, his fine Poland-China, Duroc and other superior breeds of hogs being among the best in Hardin county and yielding him every year a large portion of his earnings.

Mr. Adamson is a man of progressive ideas and tendencies and by adopting modern methods of farming and keeping in close touch with the more advanced thought on the matter of agriculture and stock raising he has achieved success such as few attain and is today in independent circumstances and among the financially solid and well-to-do men of this section of country.  Additional to his real estate in Hardin county, he owns a half section of excellent land in Burleigh county, North Dakota, which is increasing rapidly in value, these holdings, with a large amount of personal property, constituting an ample competence for his present necessities and a safe-guard against any future exigency that might possibly arise.  Although deeply interested in the development and growth of his township and county and identified with various utilities, he is not a public man nor a seeker after the honors or emoluments of office; nevertheless, he has filled various local positions from time to time, including that of township trustee, and for several years past he has been a director and leading spirit in the Farmers� Creamery at Iowa Falls.

Mr. Adamson was married at the age of twenty-six to Laura McConnell, of New Providence, Hardin county, Iowa, who died ten years later, leaving four children to mourn her loss, namely: Luella, a professional nurse of Kansas City, Missouri; Mary, a teacher in the public schools and a member of the home circle; Hattie, who is also engaged in educational work; and Laura, an accomplished teacher of music and, like her sisters, still residing under the parental roof.  In December, 1890, Mr. Adamson was united in marriage to Belle McLerry, of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, the union being blessed with one child, Alice, a bright young miss of thirteen years of age.

Fraternally, Mr. Adamson is an Odd Fellow and his wife is a member of the Rebekah degree lodge of the order, and religiously, they are identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. 

Isaac Albery, pp. 963-965

An honored and prominent citizen of Hardin county is Isaac Albery, who, after a useful and strenuous career, is now living retired in the village of Hubbard, where he has a beautiful home in which he is spending his mellow Indian summer years in peace and in the midst of plenty, having no compunction for the past and no fear for the future.

Mr. Albery was born January 8, 1837, in Licking county, Ohio, and he is the son of William S. and Maria (Stagg) Albery, the latter the widow of Josiah Stagg and the daughter of Isaac and Hannah Baldwin.  William S. Albery was born in Licking county, Ohio, and his wife was born in Essex county, New Jersey.  William S. Albery was the son of John Albery, a native of England, who first settled in Maryland, and in an early day located in Licking county, Ohio, and there his death occurred.  He was a farmer.  He married Mary Myer and these children were born to them:  Philip, Thomas, Peter, John, William S., Myer, Noah, Rhoda, Betsy, Polly, Hester and Eliza.  

Isaac Baldwin was of Welsh stock.  He lived in New Jersey for some time, then moved to Licking county, Ohio, later to Franklin county, that state, where he and his wife died.  He was in turn a carpenter, millwright and farmer.  These children were born to them:  Thomas, Isaac, Maria, Sarah, Eliza, Samantha and Amelia.

William S. Albery was educated in the old-time public schools and he grew to maturity in Licking county, Ohio, and married there.  In May, 1855, he and his family started to Hardin county, Iowa.  They settled in Pleasant township on fifty-six acres of timber land, later bought the same number of acres on the prairie, then added one hundred and twelve acres, forty acres and lastly one hundred and sixty acres, becoming well-to-do there, making extensive improvements and establishing a beautiful home, becoming one of the leading citizens of Pleasant township.  In connection with farming, he worked at the carpenter's trade.  Politically, he was a Democrat and held several local offices, including that of trustee and school director.  He held the Universalist faith and his wife belonged to the Methodist church.  His death occurred in 1878 and she died in 1883.  They were the parents of seven children, namely: Isaac, of this review; William is farming on the old home place in Pleasant township; Marquis D. lives at New Providence, Iowa; Jeremiah also lives at New Providence; Euphmia died young; Louisa married Thomas Spence, and they live at Everett, Washington; Amelia married J. P. Knowles and lives in Tipton township, this county.

Isaac Albery was educated in the common schools and he lived at home until his marriage, May 19, 1859, to Sarah K. Dean, who was born in Linn county, Iowa, the daughter of Robert and Catherine (Donohue) Dean, the former a native of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, and the latter of Illinois, probably near Galesburg.  They went to Linn county, Iowa, in 1837 and settled where Cedar Rapids is now located, and there Mrs. Albery was born on January 28, 1840.  In 1855 Mr. Dean came to Hardin county, Iowa, and bought land in Tipton township.  When the Civil war came on he enlisted in the Union army and died in the hospital at Memphis, Tennessee.  His widow died on the old homestead in Tipton township, February 28, 1894.  They were members of the United Brethren church.  Mrs. Dean later in life married David Bowers.  The following children were born to Robert Dean and wife: John, deceased; Walter S. lives in this state; Robert M. lives at Iowa Falls; Sarah K., wife of the subject; Mary and George are deceased.

Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Albery: Juliette died in March, 1897; Robert E. lives at Eldora, Iowa; William F. is a farmer and carpenter at DeNair, California; Earl is a harness dealer at Hubbard, Iowa; Susie lives at home and she has been dressmaking for the past fifteen years.  These children were all educated in the home schools.  Frank attended school at Mt. Vernon and Iowa Falls, this state.  He is a registered pharmacist.  Robert and Earl attended school in Hubbard and Juliette attended high school at Eldora.

The subject and wife were the first couple married in Tipton township, this county.  They settled in section 36, this township, buying forty acres of valuable land for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.  Here they established a pleasant home and developed a good farm, which they sold in 1909. They moved to Hubbard in 1905, where they own a commodious and comfortable home and four acres of valuable land.

Mr. Albery is a Democrat and has held all offices in Tipton township, always with credit and satisfaction.  His wife belongs to the United Brethren church.  They formerly went to church on a lumber wagon drawn by an ox team, with a plank across the wagon for a seat.  They talk interestingly of the old days in this country, having lived here through the wonderful changes of the past.  They are well known throughout the county and have a host of warm personal friends.

Hon. Charles E. Albrook, p.184

One of the three present judges of this judicial district is Charles E. Albrook, who had practiced as an attorney at Eldora, as a member of the firm of Porter & Albrook.  He was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, in 1850, removed to Delaware county, Iowa, with his parents in 1857.  He graduated at Cornell College in 1874, and for a year was engaged in teaching school.  He came to Eldora and entered the law office of Porter & Moir in 1876, and in May, 1877, was admitted to the bar.  In 1882 he formed a partnership in the law business with Judge John Porter, which continued a number of years.  A few more years since he was elevated to the bench and is proving himself a careful, conservative judge, meting out justice without fear or favor.  Before going on the bench Mr. Albrook enjoyed a large legal practice.

Henry Alden, pp. 277-278

Henry Alden, the founder of the town of Alden, for whom it was named, was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, in 1801.  While there he was engaged in farming pursuits, and in 1841 he came to DuPage county, Illinois, remained a short time, then returned to Massachusetts.  In 1854 he came West as far as Naperville, Illinois, and in June, 1854, in company with Sumner Kemp, came to Iowa, locating at Alden.  He entered the land where now stands the town of Alden, and began the erection of a mail and laid out a town.  From the time of his arrival he entered into the building up of a town with much zeal, sparing neither time nor money to make it an ideal place in which to live.  He did all in his power to induce settlement.  He was very public spirited and gave much of his means that others might be benefited thereby.  His favorite quotation was: "An honst man is the noblest work of God." His chief aim in life seemed to be to prove his own nobility.  He was gathered to the reward of the truly just and upright, in 1877, passing from the scenes of this life in the month of September, when the leaves were turning to amber and gold.  His family consisted of wife and seven children.  Mrs. Alden died in February of the same year in which he died.

David L. Allen, pp. 548-550

Among those men of Hardin county who by the mere force of their personality have forged their way to the front ranks of that class of citizens who may justly be termed progressive, is David L. Allen, who has a fine farm in Buckeye township, which he has taken a great interest in and which he has improved in a most systematic way until it is the equal of any in the vicinity where it is so admirably located. He is one of the honored boys in blue who willingly gave up the associations of home and the prospects of business in order to do what he could to save the nation from treason during the dark days of the sixties. Mr. Allen is one of the sterling Pennsylvanians who have done so much in bringing this locality to the front, his birth having occurred in Crawford county, the old Keystone state, on October 25, 1841. He is the son of Robert and Martha (Ladner) Allen, both of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where they grew to maturity, were educated and married. The father was a farmer, also worked in the timber business and later conducted a hotel at Sherman's Corners. In 1848 he went to Washington county, Iowa, and engaged in the mercantile business at Crawfordsville for several years, and he also owned farm land. In 1869 he came to Colo, Story county, Iowa, and later moved to Ames, this state, where he lived retired and where he died at the age of seventy-six years, his wife also dying there at the age of sixty-seven. He was a strong Republican and was justice of the peace, also held other offices. He and his wife were members of the Congregational church. They were the parents of eight children, namely: David L., of this review; Luther, who lives near Breckenridge, Minnesota, is a carpenter and railroad bridge builder; during the Civil war he was a member of the Forty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry; John runs a dray at Alden, Iowa; Robert, now deceased, was foreman on bridge work for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company; Joseph Dudley was killed on the railroad; he was a fireman at Des Moines; Selenda is deceased; Annie lives at Breckenridge, Minnesota.

David L. Allen had but little opportunity to obtain an education. He lived at ome until he was about twenty years of age. On January 12, 1860, he was united in marriage with Rebecca Gordon, of Crawfordsville, Iowa, the daughter of David Gordon, of Ohio. Mrs. Allen was called to her rest on December 4, 1904. To Mr. and Mrs. Allen the following children were born: Robert Samuel died in 1863; Cora Belle, of Alden, Iowa, married William Palmer and they have one daughter, Cecile; Martha is at home with her father; John, an engineer on the Illinois Central railroad at Waterloo, Iowa, married Cora Swaney and they have three children, George, Marjorie and David; Frank, who has remained single, lives at home and works the old place; Loyd, who is farming, married Addie Whipple; David L., Jr., is a jeweler at Twin Falls, Idaho.

After 1860, Mr. Allen of this review moved on a farm near Crawfordsville, Iowa, and on July 26, 1862, he enlisted at Crawfordsville in Company I, Twenty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was sent to Mt. Pleasant, where he remained six weeks, then descended the Mississippi river to Helena, Arkansas. The transport carrying this regiment grounded on a sand bar and was fast for five days. They wintered at Helena, Arkansas, and did scout duty. After being a member of the party that went on the Coldwater expedition, Mr. Allen was sent to Vicksburg and was in the siege there, thence went to Memphis, later marching to Chattanooga, and was in the battle of Lookout Mountain and also Missionary Ridge, later in the battle at Ringgold, Georgia, then back to Chattanooga and east Tennessee and then went into winter quarters at Woodville, Alabama. In the spring of 1864 they went on to Atlanta and engaged in that campaign, being with Sherman all through Georgia and with him on the march to the sea, thence went north to Washington, D. C., and took part in the Grand Review. Mr. Allen was discharged on June 14, 1865, and was mustered out on June 6th of that year at Davenport, Iowa. After his career in the army he went back to his family in Crawfordsville and in 1869 went to Story county, coming to Hardin county in 1875, buying three hundred and twenty acres in Alden township, which he sold in 1893 and bought one hundred and seventy-four acres in section 5, Buckeye township, where he now resides. He has always been a farmer and has met with unusual success. He has a well improved and very productive place and carries on general farming and stock raising. He has also followed threshing for many years throughout this locality.

Mr. Allen is a Republican and he has held some of the township offices. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Alden, Iowa. He has among his heirlooms a Bible one hundred and fifty years old. Mrs. Allen was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

George F. Althouse, pp. 1020-1023

In touching upon the life history of George F. Althouse, editor and publisher of The World at Ackley, Hardin county, the biographer aims to avoid fulsome ecomium and extravagant praise, yet he desires to hold up for consideration these facts which have shown the distinction of a true, useful and honorable life, which has been characterized by broad charity, perseverance, energy and well defined purpose.  To do this will be but to reiterate the dictum pronounced upon Mr. Althouse by the people who have known him so long and well.  He is widely known as a writer of unusual felicity of expression whose facile pen has delighted thousands of readers.  United in his composition are so many elements of a solid and practical nature, which during a series of years have brought him into prominent notice and earned for him a conspicuous place among the enterprising men of the county of his residence, that it is but just recognition of his worth to speak at some length of his life and achievements which have been through struggles to triumph his career exemplifying the fact that there is no royal road to success and that he never fails who never gives up.

Mr. Althouse was born in Waterloo, Iowa, April 19, 1869, the scion of a sterling old pioneer family of the Hawkeye state, being the son of John and Margaret (Feusner) Althouse.  He grew to manhood at Waterloo, and when twelve years of age he began working before and after school, and on Saturdays worked in the offices of the Waterloo Tribune and Courier and livered these popular papers to numerous patrons.  When only sixteen years of age he was foreman in charge of the Waterloo Tribune, and he has continued in the newspaper business ever since.  When about seventeen years of age he went to Chicago and worked on the Chicago Herald, that splendid newspaper  having at that time perhaps the speediest typesetters in the United States, then owned by J. W. Scott, and considered one of the leaders, typographically, in the entire country.  In early boyhood, at Waterloo, when that memorable and historic case was before the American people - when President Garfield's life was hanging by a thread and the people were anxiously watching the bulletin boards, and the trial of President Garfield's assassin, Charles Guiteau, was eagerly sought and read, he sold daily over two hundred Chicago Heralds at five cents per copy and established an enviable record as a "newsy." He had also a regular list of customers at that time for the then pioneer daily paper of the northwest, the Pioneer Press of St. Paul, and thus he early developed the ability to hustle for himself.  When nineteen years of age he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he remained four years on the Globe and the Pioneer Press.  Later he went south, working at St. Louis, Memphis and other places down the Mississippi river on various newspapers, remaining in Memphis some time, returning to St. Louis, thence back to his old stamping grounds at home.  He was about twenty-three years of age when he went to Marshalltown, Iowa, and took charge of the mechanical side of the Marshalltown Statesman, at the time the leading Democratic newspaper of central Iowa.  Returning to Waterloo about eight months later, he entered the employ of Matt Parrott & Sons, being assistant to Low G. Parrott on the blank book side of that splendidly equipped and thoroughly established printing plant.  He returned home to be with his parents; his mother's death occurred in the summer of 1893.  Desiring to engage in business on his own responsibility and the opportunity presenting itself, in 1895 Mr. Althouse bought the Ackley World; he has owned, edited and guided its course successfully through the years; he has been very successful in the management of the paper, having built it up to one of the best and most substantial papers of its type in the state, greatly increasing its attractiveness from a mechanical standpoint and rendering it much more valuable as an advertising medium; its circulation has steadily increased and it wields a strong influence in this section of the state, its columns being filled with the latest news of the day, carefully arranged and its editorial section set forth in convincing and attractive style, and the editorial opinion of the paper is frequently quoted by the larger publications of Iowa.

Mr. Althouse has had a very extensive experience in the newspaper field.  When a lad at Dubuque, Iowa, he joined Typographical Union No. 22, and in all matters that have engrossed the attention of labor, and union labor in particular, he has taken a lively interest and has held his membership in the union ever since.  However, he being now an employer, is an honorary member of this organization, and has always manifested a lively interest in the welfare of the union.  At the time of his removal from Waterloo to Ackley he intended to stay only two years, while pursuing a certain course of study, but becoming identified with the life of the community, propering and buying property, he found it to his interest to remain longer, and he has taken his place in the front rank of representative citizens in this locality.

From boyhood Mr. Althouse has been an active and influential worker in the Democratic party, although in the campaign of 1896 and 1900, with the "gold standard coinage of money" the leading issue, opposed as he was to "free silver," he remained steadfast; believing that the true principles of Democracy would ultimately triumph, he continued to force the issue for the party in the third district, through the avenue of his newspapers, The World and Eldora Enterprise.  For several years he has been secretary of the Democratic county central committee.  His paper has been devoted to the interests of the community and state and to Democracy in a very noteworthy manner, and during campaigns it has wielded a very potent influence.

Mr. Althouse is widely known to the newspaper fraternity as a man of exceptional ability along mechanical lines.  Even as a boy he was a speedy compositor.  Away back in July, 1892, the Cedar Rapids Gazette said of him that he was one of the speediest typos in the Northwest, Iowa's crack typo, probably the fastest compositor in the Northwest.  "His actions at the case," said the Gazette, "are steady, regular, and, in the vernacular of the typo, as pretty as a new quad.  His work is clean and well justified.  Besides being speedy, he is considered one of the best job compositors in the country, has good taste and takes great pride in his work.  He is a genial young man and has a host of friends in the 'profession.'"  His adroitness has been due to some extent, no doubt, from the fact that his father taught him to have method and system about everything he did, and that to succeed one should be able to do things both quickly and well.  His father and mother were pioneers of Black Hawk county.  They came direct to Waterloo, Iowa, from Germany in 1861, where John Althouse (his father) established a wagon and carriage factory, conducting the business up to the time of his death.  He became well and firmly established.  He was energetic and progressive and prospered in various lines and was a stockholder in different companies and semi-public organizations and associations.  His death occurred in January, 1897, and that of his wife in August, 1893.  The children have kept the large estate together, maintaining the old homestead just as it was. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Althouse were as follows: George F., of this review, was fifth in order of birth; the oldest son, George -- the parents following the customs of the fatherland -- died in early youth; his two brothers, Henry and Lewis, both of Waterloo, being older than he; Charles and Edward are also dead; one sister, Elizabeth, died at the age of seventeen years; the remaining sisters, allyounger, are Mrs. J. O. Coombs, of Sioux Falls; Mrs. R. T. Heywood, of Bowman, North Dakota; Mrs. Frank T. Setchel, of Sandwich, Illinois.

George F. Althouse was married in Ackley, in 1896, to his cousin, Katherine, and to this union three children have been born, Ruth, Margaret and George.

Mr. and Mrs. Althouse are members of the Presbyterian church, and fraternally he belongs to the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America.  Personally he is a genial, approachable, pleasant gentleman, a good mixer and has been popular with the newspaper fraternity as well as the general public wherever he is known.

Henry Althouse, Sr., pp. 670-672

It is the pride of the citizens of this country that there is no limit to which natural ability, industry and honesty may not aspire.  A boy born in ignorance and poverty and reared under the most adverse surroundings may nevertheless break from his fetters and rise to the highest station in the land.  And the qualities do not have to be of transcendent character to enable him to accomplish this result.  It is more the way he does it and his skill in grasping the opportunities presented, than to any remarkable qualities possessed by him.  Thousands of young men of the German empire have realized how easy it is for a man of courage and willing hands to rise in our republic, and have accordingly cast their lots with us, with the result that they have benefited themselves and the general communities in which they located.  One such is Henry Althouse, one of the best known citizens of Ackley, Hardin county, a man who has lived to see and take part in the development of the town and surrounding country.  His life has been exemplary and he has the confidence, good will and esteem of all who know him.

Mr. Althouse was born at Gossfelden, in the province of Hessen-Nassau, Germany, September 2, 1841, and there he grew to maturity and received his education, coming to America in 1861, locating in Waterloo, Iowa.  He had learned the wagonmaker's trade with his father.  In 1861, in company with his brother John, also a wagonmaker, who was six years older than Henry, they started a shop, the subject working for his brother until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he proved his loyalty tohis adopted country by enlisted on December 10, 1863, in Company G, Sixteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, as a recruit, joining his regiment at Vicksburg, where they remained until March, 1864.  Then they were sent into Tennessee, later joined Sherman on his Atlanta campaign, being in all his principal battles, and was on the famous march to the sea, thence through South and North Carolina, and after the battle of Bentonville he went with the troops to Washington, D. C., and took part in the Grand Review.  His regiment had seen some very hard service, which had greatly reduced its ranks, and out of a thousand men and three or four hundred recruits, they reached Washington with but four hundred men.  They were sent to Louisville, Kentucky, to be discharged.  Mr. Althouse had served about twenty months, in various capacities, as guard to soldiers, provost duty, etc., but always with fidelity and gallantry, according to his comrades.  He was not sick during the service, coming out sound and hearty.  After returning home from the army he worked for his brother John a year or two, and in 1868 he came to Ackley, Iowa, which was a small village, and the country round about was unimproved.  He at once set up a shop and has continued here in the same line of business for a period of forty-two years, enjoying a very excellent trade all the while, and his skill and honesty have made him widely popular and his customers have come from remote parts of the locality, his being one of the oldest established lines of business in the town, he being one of the two oldest men in business here, Clark Beach having come about the same time.  For twenty years he has been located at his present place at First and Main streets, having remained close to his bench.  For years he maintained a blacksmith shop in connection with his wood work.  He made a great many wagons, which found a very ready sale owing to their fine quality.

Mr. Althouse was always a Republican and Loyal to his party's principles.  He is a member of the Edward H. Mix Post No. 311, Grand Army of the Republic, being one of its oldest and most interested members.  He is a worthy member of the Presbyterian church, although he was reared at Lutheran.

Mr. Althouse was married in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1867, to Mary T. Tjaden, who was born in Hanover, Germany, and four children have been born to them, namely: Anna, a teacher in the graded schools at Ackley, having taught successfully in Hardin and Grundy counties for years; Katie is the wife of George F. Althouse, the well-known editor of Ackley; Henry W. is a printer in Ackley; Clara died in infancy.

This family is one of the best known and highest esteemed in the northeastern part of Hardin county.

Sullivan D. Andrews, pp. 599-600

Success has been worthily attained by Sullivan D. Andrews, better known as "Deck" Andrews, for many years one of Hardin county's foremost agriculturists, now living in honorable retirement in his beautiful home at Hubbard.  He has always stood ready to his full share in the development of this locality, in which he has ever had a profound interest, and thus by reason of his public spirit, his fairness and his genial address he has the good will and the confidence of all who know him.

Mr. Andrews was born in Kane county, Illinois, March 3, 1850, and he is the son of Calvin and Eveline (Day) Andrews, the father a native of Hampden county, Massachusetts, born February 9, 1816, and the mother of Springfield, that state, born October 30, 1818.  Calvin Andrews went to Kane county, Illinois, when a young man, later buying a farm near Burlington, that state.  He went overland in a "prairie schooner" to California in 1859 and there remained fifteen years, working in the placer mines.  Returning to Kane county, Illinois, he remained there until his death, March 7, 1896, at the age of eighty years, his widow having preceded him November 29, 1884.  He was one of the prominent and influential men of that county and held numerous public offices, including that of justice of the peace.  He was a Republican.  His family consisted of seven children, namely: William is a retired farmer, of Sycamore, Illinois; Sirenie, who married Ambrose Perry, of Webster City, Iowa, was educated at Bennett College, Chicago, Illinois, and practiced medicine successfully for twenty-five years in Sycamore, Illinois, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Webster City, Iowa; August lives in Sycamore, Illinois; Sullivan D., of this review; Frank, who lives in North Dakota and Washington state, died at Hubbard, Iowa, in 1896; Horace, who was an implement dealer at Ackley, Iowa, died in 1903; Calvin D. is a real estate and stock dealer at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Sullivan D. Andrews received only a limited education in the common schools.  He remained at home and helped take care of the family until he was twenty-seven years of age.  On January 1, 1877, in DeKalb county, Illinois, he was united in marriage with Jennie M. Allen, of that county, the daughter of William Allen, of Washington county, New York, who was a pioneer of Sycamore, Illinois, and who is still living there at the advanced age of ninety-one years, and his wife, who was Mary Isabelle McMaster, of Hartford, New York, is also living, being now eighty-one years old.  They devoted their active lives to farming, and three children were born to them, namely: Jennie M., Rhoda, deceased; Emma J. married Edward Windetta, of Sycamore, Illinois.

Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, namely: Ruth married F. W. Rhodes, of Grant township, this county; Mary married Guy Thompson, of Providence township, this county; Eunice is at home; Raymond married Mintie Martin and they live in Wyoming; Harry also lives in that state; Millard Dee, the youngest, is at home.

Sullivan D. Andrews came to Hardin county, Iowa, in 1874, and bought eighty acres of land in section 25, Grant township, which has a little improvement on it.  Here he went to work with a will, developed the land, established a good home and prospered, adding to his original holdings until he now has an excellent farm of two hundred and eighty acres, on which he lived and made a success of general farming and stock raising, until the spring of 1908, when he moved to Hubbard, where he is now living retired.  While on the farm he devoted special attention, for a period of fifteen years, to the breeding of short-horn cattle, Poland-China hogs and Percheron horses, his fine stock being greatly admired by all who saw them.

Politically, Mr. Andrews is a Republican and was trustee of his township for over fifteen years and he held other offices of trust.  He is a member of the Friends church.