Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Andrews, Robert 1813 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 28, 2006, 5:07 pm Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880) Andrews, Robert. Born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1813. Here he received his education and labored upon the farm until twenty-six years of age. In 1840, he, with his parents, moved to Ohio, and, on January 27, 1842, married Miss Mary, daughter of Colonel Orr, of Guernsey county, Ohio. In April, 1857, he and his family started to California, crossing the plains with ox-teams. They came direct to this county, arriving all safe and well, October 10,1857, and in 1859 located on their present estate, situated in Two Rock valley, about six miles from Petaluma. Their children are W. C, C. N., Howard, and Holland W. Have lost two, Jane, and Sarah E. Additional Comments: Petaluma Township Extracted from: HISTORY —OF- SONOMA COUNTY, -INCLUDING ITS— Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams; —TOGETHER WITH— A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County; Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain Growing Interests, and Pisciculture; ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN; —AND OF ITS— Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc. ILLUSTRATED. SAN FRANCISCO: ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1880. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/sonoma/bios/andrews722bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/cafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb