Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Mathew, Andrew 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Andrew Mathew, farmer, section 6, Hopkins Township, is a son of William and a 
Jennette (Wiley) Mathew, natives of Scotland, who came to America in 1851 (see 
sketch of David Mathew), and settled in West Virginia, and came to Whiteside 
County in 1856 and passed the remainder of their life here. They had ten 
children, named Thomas, David, William, Jeannette, Andrew, Ann, Margaret, 
Robert, Jane and Alexander. The subject of this sketch was born in Scotland, 
Aug. 6, 1830. He received a common-school education and remained in his native 
land till about 1847, when he came to West Virginia, where he lived seven 
years, engaged in farming and at work on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 
grading. In the fall of 1856 he came to Whiteside County and worked out for 
three years. He then rented a farm in Hopkins and Mt. Pleasant Townships for 
eight years. He then purchased 74 acres on section 6, Hopkins Township, where 
he settled and has since lived. He was married first in Virginia, to Mary A. 
Dumire, who was a native of Virginia. They had one child, Sarah C., who is now 
the wife of John S. Lingel and resides in Morrison. Mrs. Mathew died in 
Hopkins Township, in April, 1858, and Mr. M. was again married, in Carroll 
Co., Ill., Jan. 29, 1860, to Rachel Hunter, who was a native of Scotland, 
being a daughter of Robert and Jennette (Cassells) Hunter. By this marriage 
there have been seven children,— Jennette E., Margaret J., William A., Eliza 
M., Robert, Ella R. and Andrew T. In his political views Mr. Mathew is 
independent.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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