the andrews family
The family is cited in the Andreas history:
ANDREAS’
HISTORY of the State of Nebraska
containing
A FULL ACCOUNT OF ITS GROWTH FROM AN UNINHABITED TERRITORY
TO A WEALTHY AND IMPORTANT STATE;
OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENTS; ITS RAPID INCREASE IN POPULATION,
AND THE MARVELLOUS DEVELOPMENT OF ITS GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES. ALSO AN EXTENDED DESCRIPTION OF ITS
COUNTIES, CITIES, TOWN AND VILLAGES,
THEIR ADVANTAGES, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS; VIEWS OF RESIDENCES AND BUSINESS BLOCKS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO:
THE WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY,
A. T. ANDREAS, Proprietor.
1882.
HISTORY of the State of Nebraska
containing
A FULL ACCOUNT OF ITS GROWTH FROM AN UNINHABITED TERRITORY
TO A WEALTHY AND IMPORTANT STATE;
OF ITS EARLY SETTLEMENTS; ITS RAPID INCREASE IN POPULATION,
AND THE MARVELLOUS DEVELOPMENT OF ITS GREAT NATURAL RESOURCES. ALSO AN EXTENDED DESCRIPTION OF ITS
COUNTIES, CITIES, TOWN AND VILLAGES,
THEIR ADVANTAGES, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS; VIEWS OF RESIDENCES AND BUSINESS BLOCKS, CITIES AND TOWNS.
ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO:
THE WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY,
A. T. ANDREAS, Proprietor.
1882.
The following was transcribed from the Andreas history by Dick Taylor at www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/pawnee/pawnee-p3.html
D. C. ANDREWS, merchant Table Rock was born and reared in Somerset County, Me.
In 1858, he went to Wisconsin, but soon after removed to Iowa, where he was engaged until the war broke out, at which time he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Indian Volunteer Infantry, 1861, and remained in active service till the end of the war, when he was honorably discharged as veteran pensioner.
In 1867, he came here, and has been actively indentified with the industry of the locality since.
In 1872, he was married to Miss Ellen Allan, born in Kentucky and reared in Illinois, and who passed away from this life, February, 1881, and is buried in the Jacobs Cemetery here.
Mr. Andrews has a family of two sons and two daughters -- Mina, Nellie L., Dudley and Murvilla.