MARY BETH CONNORS and JOHN JOHNSON ANDREWS 
Boy River,MN

Mary Beth Connors was born in Minneapolis MN on December 23, 1863. Her parents 
were Milton and Sarah Connors of Pennsylvania.  She attended Hamline University 
and received a teaching degree in 1893 and began teaching in the St. Paul Public 
Schools. 
Mary Beth married Swedish immigrant John Johnson Andrews in Minneapolis on March 
18, 1894. In 1899 they moved to Boy River township in Cass County, where John 
built up a harness and blacksmith business, and later a small engine shop. John 
died of exposure during a blizzard in January of 1917. Two of their children 
died in the influenza outbreak of 1918. Mary Beth raised the remaining 7 
children, but still found time to be an active member of the Methodist church 
and devoted much time to volunteer work for the Red Cross, her church, and other 
organizations.  The Minneapolis Tribune reported that she was the first woman to 
cast a vote in Cass County in the special election of March 1922.  She taught 
piano and voice lessons until she was over 80 years old. When she died 
on February 26, 1949 she had 28 grandchildren, 89 great-grandchildren, and 17 
great-great grandchildren.

Copyright (c) 2003 John T. Wilkerson
jtwilk@email.address


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