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. 489. C. MORTIMER ANDREWS a successful and progressive Sherman county farmer, residing two miles west of Wasco, is a native of the Wolverine State, having been born at Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 23, 1852. His parents were Simeon J. and Rachel A. (Wigley) Andrews, both natives of New York. The father was a descendant of an old and distinguished American family. The father of the mother of our subject was born in Connecticut ; her mother in New York, of an old colonial family, some of the members of which were prominent in the War of the Revolution. Our subject was reared in Kalamazoo county, Michigan, where he remained with his parents, two miles from Kalamazoo, until he was nine years of age. The family then moved to Wisconsin, remaining in that state until 1862, going thence to Iowa. In these three states our subject gained a good business education in the district schools until he was nineteen years old. In 1874 he began the world for himself, going to Nevada. There he worked in the mines two years, at Virginia City and Gold Hill. He then went to California and engaged in farm, work for several years. Coming to Oregon in 1882 he located land and was back and forth for two years. In 1884 he brought his family to Sherman county where he had sixty acres of land broken, together with other improvements. He sowed his first wheat crop in 1885. At present he owns three hundred and five acres lying opposite his brother's place. In 1876, at Dixon, California, he was married to Hattie King, a native of the Golden State. Her father, Simeon J. King, was a native of New York, a descendant of an old American family. Her mother, Rachel A. (Wibberly) King, was also born in New York ; her parents in England. Mrs. Andrews has one brother living ; William, residing eight miles west of Wasco. Susan, a sister, is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have two children. Claud K., at The Dalles, and Guy C., at home. Our subject has a brother, Ernest A. Andrews, a farmer, whose property adjoins that of our subject. He was born in Blackhawk county, Iowa, July 20, 1868. He has always been with his parents, with the exception of four years on the Colorado Southern Railroad, as a brakeman. He is single and lives with his mother. The father of our subject was, in early days, a Democrat. Shortly after the formation of the Republican party he joined that political element. He was sheriff of Otsego county, New York, two terms. The Andrews family were influential and well-to-do farmers in Connecticut and other portions of New England. C. Mortimer Andrews, our subject, is a Republican. He is a member of Aurora Lodge No. 54, K. of P., of which he is past C. C. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.