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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement

          W. W. ANDREWS, living on section 23 of Bear Grove, was born in
       Litchfield county, Connecticut, May 20, 1843. His parents, ORRIN and
       MINERVA ANDREWS, moved to Henry county, Illinois, in 1852. His
       mother is still living in that county. His father is dead. W. W.
       ANDREWS came to Cass county in 1872, purchasing then his present
       farm. He was married in Henry county, Illinois, in 1869, to MARY
       C. FORT, daughter of ISAAC and CAROLINE FORT, residents of that
       county.  Mr. and Mrs. ANDREWS have six children — WATSON W., LUCY
       C., ALBERT I., ELMER W., ALICE M., and GEORGE K.  A brother of Mr.
       ANDREWS, CHARLES W. ANDREWS, was born in Litchfield county,
       Connecticut, July 6, 1849.  He came to Iowa in the fall of 1870, and
       spent one year in Marshall county, then came to Cass county.  He
       lived one year in Atlantic township after which he bought a farm in
       section 23, of Bear Grove. He afterwards sold this farm and bought
       his present farm. He was married in 1871, to MAHALA G. FORT, of
       Henry county, Illinois. They have six children — STELLA E., CLAYTON
       W., ARTHUR L., MERRETT S., ORRIN C. and CRESTON F.  MRS. ANDREW was
       born in New York, March 3, 1848, where she lived until eighteen
       years of age, when she went with her parents to Illinois. In 1861,
       MR. ANDREW enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, and spent four
       years of successful and honorable service for his country in the war
       for the Union.

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