Page-Taylor County IA Archives News.....Inherits Trunk that was old in year 1813 June 3, 1926
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Kathy Ruth ruth4374@msn.com April 1, 2005, 7:38 pm

Clarinda Journal June 3, 1926
With the birth in this city May 12 of a son, Andrew Jackson, to Mr. and Mrs. 
Doyle Squier, comes to light a very interesting bit of family history.  The 
Squier descendant who first came to America was Zachariah Squier,who, with a 
brother came to this country for adventure, being of Hungarian gypsy descent. 
Zachariah was wounded in the battle of Brandywine during the Revolutionary war 
but recovered and was the antecedent of the first Andrew jackson Squier, who 
was born in the year 1813.  Since then in every other generation there has 
been an Andrew Jackson Squier, the latest one a great-grandson of the first to 
receive the name.  The child who is named Andrew Jackson also inherits a small 
trunk which has been in the family for so many years that the date is lost. 
This trunk is made of pine covered with leather, and is so old that the lining 
was worn out when the first Andrew Jackson Squier inheritied it, and the top 
of the trunk is lined with a newspaper printed in Geneva N.Y., in the month of 
June 1813, and contains an account of General Andrew Jackson having gained 
another victory over the Indians on the frontier.  The bottom of the trunk 
mentioned is lined with a paper printed in Morenci, Mich., in the year 1850, 
showing that the family had emigrated from New York to Ohio, locating just 
across the line from Morenci, Mich., where the family did their trading,  This 
paper contains an article about the Crimean war which was raging at that time.

Additional Comments:
The original Squiers followed the trade of shoemakers, one of the sons of the 
first Andrew Jackson having been superintendent of a large shoe plant in 
Massachusetts where 500 men were employed.  Later he became a maker of fine 
violins in Boston.
(Note from Kathy Ruth:  The article is too long to post all of it. But this is 
the gist of it.)

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