Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 520.
 
WILLIAM H. ANDREWS

     a progressive citizen, sound business man and leading farmer of Sherman
county, resides two miles west of Wasco. He was born in Kalamazoo county,
Michigan, October 23, 1854. His parents, Simeon J. and Rachael A. (Wigley)
Andrews, were natives of the Empire State, the father having been born in
Herkimer, the mother in Otsego county. The ancestors of the father were members
of an old American family; those of the mother came from England.
     Until he was six years of age our subject was reared in Michigan. At that
period his family removed to Janesville, Wisconsin, where the father purchased a
farm two and one-half miles from town. Here our subject attended district
school, but this was interrupted four years later by the removal of his family
to Cedar Falls, Iowa. There he remained until he was about twenty-two years old,
when he faced the world on his own account, going to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
where he found work in various lines of employment. In the fall of 1894 he
returned to Iowa, subsequently going to New Mexico, remaining there until the
following summer engaged in mining. In August, 1885, he came to Oregon where he
located his present home in Sherman county. He purchased railroad land, to which
he has since added, and at present is in litigation with the Eastern Oregon Land
Company over some landed interests. He owns a half section, and rents fifty-one
acres from the Eastern Oregon land Company. Recently Mr. Andrews erected a
handsome and substantial Queen Anne cottage containing eleven rooms, bathrooms,
store rooms, etc.
     February 22, 1889, at the residence of the bride's sister, Sherman county,
our subject was married to Miss Hester A. Benton, a native of Michigan, and the
daughter of Clark and Mary F. Benton. 
     Mr. Andrews has two brothers and two sisters; Charles M., Ernest A., the
former a farmer opposite the residence of subject, the latter living five miles
west of Wasco; Augusta C., deceased, wife of Joseph B. McHenry, of Monett, Barry
county, Missouri; Lillie M., wife of Albert Murchie, a farmer living one mile
west of Wasco. Mrs. Andrews has four half brothers,one full sister, and three
half sisters; Rose, wife of Gilbert Woodworth, of Hood River, mentioned
elsewhere; Millie, wife of Lawrence Jones, a Michigan farm; and Myrtie, wife of
Harry Cattell, also of Michigan.
     Mr. Andrews is a member of the W.O.W., of Wasco. His wife is a member of
the Christian church. Politically he is a Republican, one of the solid,
energetic business men of Sherman county; popular with all and whose many social
qualities have won a host of friends throughout the county and state.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.