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Wendland Caitlin's Gold Award Project, Girl Scouts USA, Rio Grande Girl Scout Council, El Paso, Texas ********************************************************************** Biography William Wallace Andrews Biographical Review Cumberland County, Maine Boston Biographical Review Publishing Company 1896 Page 497-498 William Wallace Andrews, a wealthy farmer and highly respected citizen of Otisfield, Me., was born in this town on June 18, 1839, son of Asa and Alazander S. (Stubbs) Andrews. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Andrews were among the pioneer settlers of Norway, Oxford County. They died there, and when a small boy Asa Andrews went to live with an uncle who resided in that town. In his new home he became familiar with practical farming, and on starting for himself he took up that vocation in Otisfield. Here he purchased a farm that he continued to carry on with profit until his death in 1894. He was a prominent citizen of this town, and was called upon to fill official positions, the duties of which he performed in a creditable manner. His wife's maiden name was Alazander Stubbs. Left an orphan at an early age, she came to Otisfield to live with an uncle, remaining with him until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Andrews had five children-Henry L., William Wallace, Abner L., Ellen R., and Julia A. Henry L. Andrews, born June 18, 1837, died September 19, 1859; Abner L., born September 14, 1844, died in California, May 4, 1873, survived by his wife, formerly Maria Millett, who is again married, and lives in Portland, Me. Ellen R. Andrews, born May 6, 1851, who became the wife of Albert L. F. Pike, of Norway, died July 29, 1889. He still resides in Norway, where he is Manager of the Norway Medicine Company and Secretary of the Odd Fellows' Graded Mutual Relief Association of Maine. The youngest child, Julia A., born August 2, 1853, died January 5, 1888. All of the children were well educated, and some of them engaged in teaching in this county. Their mother is still living, occupying a house near that of her son William. Until some time after the outbreak of the Civil War, William Wallace Andrews was a member of the paternal household. On August 25, 1862, he enlisted as a recruit in Company G of the Tenth Maine Infantry,commanded by Colonel Beal. This regiment had but eight months to serve,but Mr. Andrews together with some three hundred other men, having been mustered into the service for three years, were retained in the field; and these few men served for a time as a distinct organization,known as the Tenth Maine Battalion, but were finally consolidated with the Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment. Mr. Andrews was at the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and took part in three of the battles in the Shenandoah Valley, the second battle of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek. In the last-named engagement,fought October 19, 1864, he received a bullet wound in the left leg, and on account of disability thus caused he was honorably discharged while in the hospital at Augusta, Me., April 28, 1865. About two years later he was married, and he subsequently purchased one-half of his father's farm. He has since purchased other land, including the old homestead, so that he now owns about three hundred and twenty acres. He devotes considerable attention to general farming, but makes a specialty of fruit and dairying. He keeps on an average about eighteen milch cows, from which he sells the cream. On October 26, 1867, Mr. Andrews was married at Norway, Me., to Miss Addie Augusta Pike, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. P. B. Wilcox. Mrs. Andrews was born in Norway, April 5, 1844, daughter of Luther F.and Adaline A. (Millett) Pike, her parents being natives of the town of Norway.Throughout his active years her father was profitably engaged in farming. He is still living in Norway at the advanced age of ninety-one years. Her mother died May 21, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have two children now living -Lillian May and Henry Asa. Lillian May Andrews, born October 2, 1870, who has been a very successful teacher, is now attending the State Normal School at Farmington, Me., where she will ire graduated a few weeks hence, June 11, 1896; Henry Asa Andrews, born October 29, 1878, is now being educated at Norway Liberal Institute, Norway, Me. Their elder son, Luther Abner, born April 17, 1875, died October 26, 1876. Mr.Andrews takes an active interest in political matters, and has always been a supporter of the Republican party. He has served acceptably as Selectman and for several terms as a member of the School Board. He is a member of the following fraternal organizations: Norway Lodge, No. 16, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Harry Rust Post, No. 54, Grand Army of the Republic, of Norway; and Frederick Robie Grange, of which he was Master. He was a member of the Crooked River Grange, of which he was Master fifteen years; and he was Master of Oxford County, Pomona, Grange for two years. Mr. Andrews is a communicant of the Congregational church, in which he holds the position of Treasurer. He is an ardent believer in the progressive development of Christianity, has devoted much attention to the religious thought of the day, and in 1891 published a pamphlet of his own-production, which is regarded by those of like faith as "a logical, careful, well-written work, with the positions taken well sustained."