C. G. Andrews    

C. G. ANDREWS, manager of Moses Starbird’s carriage and buggy factory, was born July 4, 1822, in Paris, Oxford Co., Me. He was the fourth child in the family, and has two brothers and three sisters. Until fifteen years of age, he was reared on the farm, receiving his education in the district school. In 1848, our subject bought out an ore reducing business in Luzerne County, Penn. He engaged in business for five years for himself in Allegany County, N.Y.; thence went to Albion, Erie Co., Penn., in 1861, for four years, employing as high as twenty-five men. Mr. Andrews came to Corry in 1873, where he manufactured three years, then engaged in manufacturing buggies three years more. Our subject was Captain in the Squirrel Hunters during the war, and also First Lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth New York Regiment from 1861 to 1863. When twenty-two years of age, he was united in marriage with Ruth Hilton, same age. Three children blessed this union, only one surviving— Oscar, book-keeper in the National Bank, Corry. Mr. Andrews served as member of the City Council at Albion. He has also been a member of the School Board. He belongs to Star Lodge, No. 304.

History of Erie County, Pa Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.: Portraits of the Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; etc., etc. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884.  More Erie County History Books   Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.