BIOGRAPHY: Felt, Andrew J. From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875 ************************************************* Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************* ANDREW J. FELT, editor of the Waterloo Courier, was born December 27, 1833 at Victor, Ontario County, New York. Attended common school until he was fifteen, when he entered Hamilton Academy, which he attended summers, teaching during the winter. When eighteen, commenced reading law at Rochester, New York, and afterwards read with Judge Alfred Nichols, of Madison County. Arrived in Iowa October 10, 1855, with three dollars in money, and taught a four months' school, in Clayton County, that Winter, for fifty dollars. Clerked in a store during the next summer, and in the Fall entered the office of the North Iowa Times, at McGregor. In May, 1857, established the Cedar Valley News, at Bradford. In June, 1858, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law for about two years. During the Lincoln and Douglas campaign in 1860, he was associate editor of the McGregor Times; and in June 1864, enlisted as a private in Company B, 7th Iowa Infantry Volunteers; was captured at Belmont, Missouri, November 7, 1864, and remained a prisoner within the rebel lines eleven months and twenty days, enduring privations and hardships from which he will never fully recover. He was paroled, and taken from Libby Prison Hospital to the Navy Hospital at Annapolis, where he remained under the surgeon's care until the Spring of 1863, when he returned to the regiment at Corinth, Missouri. Was appointed a sergeant, and soon after discharged for disability. In 1864 he established the Public Record, at West Union, which he sold in the Spring of 1866. In May, 1867, he founded the Nashua Post, which he disposed of in February, 1874, and purchased a half interest in the Waterloo Courier, which paper he has since ably conducted.