ANDREW J. LAWSON, who is connected with industrial interests in White Hall, where he is following the carpenter's trade, was born September 12, 1844, in Tennessee. His paternal grandfather, Jesse Lawson, was of Scotch lineage. The father, John Lawson, after arriving at years of maturity married a daughter of William Miller, who was of Holland-Dutch lineage. Andrew J. Lawson pursued his education in the public schools of his native county and there remained until the beginning of the Civil war. He came to White Hall in 1863, but previous to this time he had enlisted as a soldier in Company E, Twenty-eighth Tennessee Infantry. He was captured in Kentucky, was brought to Louisville and there released on parole, after which he made his way northward, establishing his home in Greene county. He became a resident of White Hall in 1871 and has lived here continuously since, following the occupation of carpentering, to which he was reared.

On the 16th of June, 1872, Mr. Lawson was united in marriage to Miss Amanda J. Aldridge, a daughter of William Aldridge, a native of Tennessee. They have six children: Mary J., Clarissa, Albert, Eva, Lydia and William. The eldest daughter if the wife of James England and they have one child. Clarissa is the wife of John Axley and they have two children.

Mr. Lawson exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy, but has never been an aspirant for public office, preferring to give his undivided attention to his business affairs. He is a man of more than ordinary intelligence, honesty and industry and has made for himself an excellent reputation during the third of a century in which he has been a resident of White Hall.