ANDREW CRANDAL, of the firm of Andrews & Crandal, extensive lumber dealers of Bunker Hill, claims Ohio as the State of his nativity. The date of his birth is January 23, 1842, and the place, near Cleveland, Lorain County. His father, George Crandal, also a native of Ohio was reared in Lorain County, where he learned and followed the trade of a mechanic. After becoming of age he married Miss Roena Squier, who was born and reared in the same county. Two children were there born unto them, our subject and Ira, and when the former was thirteen years of age, the little family removed to LaGrange County, Ind., where about four years were spent when they returned to Huron County, Ohio. One year was there spent and they went to Richland County, where the succeeding seven years of their lives were passed. The next home of the family was in Missouri, but after a year we find them located in Montgomery County, Ill., whence they removed to Lincoln, this State, where the father followed the mechanic's trade until his death, which occurred in 1875, at the age of fifty-eight years. In religious belief he was a Methodist and in political sentiment, a Republican. His wife, who still survives him, now makes her home with her son Ira, in Denver, Col., at the age of sixty-eight years. She too is a member of the Methodist Church and a lady of many excellencies of character.

The days of the boyhood and youth of our subject were spent in various localities, he removing with his parents to their several places of residence. He was living in Hillsboro when he became of age. He had hardly attained his majority, when on the 20th of September, 1861, he enlisted for the late war as a member of Company H, Ninth Illinois Infantry, under Capt. Armstrong and Col. Mercer. The regiment was assigned to the Seventh Brigade of the Army of the Cumberland, and he participated in a number of engagements and skirmishes. After serving for fourteen months and five days he was honorably discharged at St. Louis and returned to his father's home.

In 1865, Mr. Crandal was united in marriage with Miss Mary Paulhamus, the union being celebrated in Lawrence, Henry County. The lady was born in Richland County, Ohio, March 2, 1838, and with her parents removed to Princeton, Bureau County, Ill. her father died in Indiana while on his way to this State, being then in the prime of life. The widowed mother with her children continued her journey and settling in Princeton, there made her home for some years. Subsequently she removed to Sharon, Wis., where she died at a ripe old age. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Crandal have been born three children, two yet living. The elder, Fred, who graduated from the bunker Hill city schools, and in 1888 was graduated from the Eastman Business College of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from which his father had graduated in February, 1864, is now acting as a salesman for the firm of Andrews & Crandal. Ira is now attending school, and Kittie died in childhood.

After his marriage, Mr. Crandal took up his residence in Lincoln, Ill., where he made his home for seventeen years and engaged in business as a contractor and builder. he came to this county from Iola, Allen County, Kan., whither he went in 1880, there spending a year. In 1881, he arrived in Bunker Hill, where he soon engaged in the lumber business and subsequently he was manager of the business of the lumber firm of McDaniels & Crandal of Gillespie for eighteen months. In 1884 a partnership was formed between the members of the firm of Andrews & Crandal and they have since carried on an extensive business. They deal in lumber, both dressed and plain and all other building materials. Mr. Crandal has entire management of the business, which under his able charge is assuming large proportions. he is an enterprising wide-awake and thrifty business man, and by all with whom he is brought in contact, whether in public or private life he is held in high regard. In politics he is a Democrat, and is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Lincoln, and of Bunker Hill Lodge, No. 151, A.F. & A.M., of Bunker Hill. He has filled all the chairs in the latter organization. His wife holds membership in the Methodist Church.