Gunnison County CO Archives Biographies.....Andrews, George W. March 2, 1866 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

George W. Andrews

   This progressive ranch man and stock-grower of Gunnison, whose well improved

and highly cultivated ranch of four hundred and seventy acres lies about four

miles west of Gunnison, has seen many parts of this country and had valuable

experience in each.  He was born in Canada on March 2, 1866, the son of Elkney

H. and Jane (Phillips) Andrews, both natives of the Dominion, where they grew to

maturity and were married.  The family moved to Buena Vista county, Iowa, in

1869 and to Colorado in 1881.  The mother has been dead a number of years and

the father is now living in Denver.  They had six sons and three daughters, all

of whom are living, George being the seventh born.  He was three years old when

the family located in Iowa and twelve when they came to Colorado.  His education

was obtained in the common schools and he was reared on a ranch, or rather two

of them.  The parents were in straitened circumstances and every available hand

in the household was in requisition to aid in making the living, so that from an

early age Mr. Andrews was inured to labor, and he has never shirked his portion

of whatever was at hand to do.  The Gunnison county home was twenty-five miles

southwest of the county seta, and on this the son remained and worked until he

reached the age of twenty-one.  Then, starting out in life for himself, he was

employed as a hand on other ranches several years and also bought, improved and

sold farm lands.  In 1890 he went to California and during the next seven years

was engaged in farming and other occupations in Los Angeles county, that state.

 Returning to this state in 1897, he has since followed ranching in Gunnison

county, and raising live stock, principally cattle, having now about two hundred

head of Shorthorns.  His ranch of four hundred and seventy acres is four miles

west of Gunnison and is highly improved and about all under irrigation.  Hay is

his principal crop and of this he raises an average of two hundred and fifty

tons a year.  He is enterprising and progressive, omitting no effort on his part

to secure the best results from his work, and the skill with which he manages

his affairs is shown by the condition of his property and the profits of his

business.  In political matters he is independent and fraternally belongs to the

lodge of Woodmen of the World at Gunnison.  He was married on April 12, 1892, to

Miss Clara May Kinman, a native of California, the daughter of Nathan and Mary

(Craw) Kinman, who were born and reared in Pennsylvania and moved from that

state to California among its pioneers of 1849, crossing the plains in wagons

and being more than a year on the journey.  They still have their home in

California.  Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have two children, their daughter Edith Fay

and their son Roy.

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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