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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Mrs. Julia E. Andrews, residing at No. 300 Herkimer street, Joliet, was born 
in New Brunswick, in 1829, her parents being Bernard and Sarah Quidley, who 
were also natives of New Brunswick. The father was of Irish and English 
lineage and died in St. Johns, New Brunswick, during the early girlhood of his 
daughter Julia, who has no remembrance of him. He was a farmer by occupation. 
His wife passed away in New Brunswick at the venerable age of ninety years. In 
their family were five sons: Bernard, who was in the cavalry service in the 
war and was shot from his horse; Edward, who was a brick manufacturer and died 
in St. Johns, New Brunswick; Hugh, who when last heard of was living in 
Australia, where he has resided for forty years; William, who was liberally 
educated by his sister, Mrs. Andrews, and became a cabinetmaker by trade, but 
followed the sea and died in London, England; and John, who died when eight 
years of age. Mrs. Andrews, the only daughter of the family, was sent to the 
home of an aunt in Boston when only seven years of age on account of 
her "witchery" as it was called, for even in her early girlhood she seemed to 
have supernatural powers which later developed until she became a medium of 
the Spiritualist church. She has been married three times. Her first husband 
was Alfred M. Wise, who was born in Boston in 1825. His parents died there. 
Julia Quidley was only sixteen years of age when she was married in 1845. Mr. 
Wise died in Portland, Maine, in 1869. He was engaged in the upholstering 
business in that city and in the great fire lost all that he had, amounting to 
twenty thousand dollars. He was a man of high spirited nature and very proud 
and he felt that he could not recover from his losses and became discouraged. 
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and a man of many excellent traits 
of character. Mrs. Wise continued to live in Portland for two years after her 
husband's death. She then went to Sturgis, Michigan, and practiced 
Spiritualism until she married S. H. Landis, who was born in Tioga county, 
Pennsylvania, and was a carpenter by trade. Fraternally he was connected with 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He only lived for two years after his 
marriage and following his death Mrs. Landis went to Denver, where she 
practiced Spiritualism for two months. She then married Alexander Andrews, who 
was born in New Hampshire and followed the sea for a number of years. Mr. 
Andrews was a carpenter by trade and at the time of the Civil war he responded 
to the country's call for aid, enlisting in the Twenty-sixth Regiment of 
Illinois Volunteers, formed in Will county. During the last fifteen years of 
his life he conducted a grocery store at the corner of Eastern avenue and Cass 
street and this property is still owned by his widow. He was well known as a 
substantial business man and enjoyed the confidence and good will of those who 
knew him. His death occurred in Joliet twenty-six years ago, when he was about 
fifty-nine years of age. He was a man particularly fond of children and well 
liked by all. At his death many children came with flowers to strew the bier 
of one whom they knew as a most faithful, devoted and interesting friend. He 
held membership with the Masonic fraternity and the Odd Fellows' lodge and 
exemplified in his life the basic principles of these orders. Mrs. Adams now 
lives at No. 300 Herkimer street in Joliet, where she has resided continuously 
since her third marriage. In earlier years when she practiced Spiritualism she 
was known throughout the entire country. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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