Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Shields, Andrew Jackson 1857 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

    ANDREW JACKSON SHIELDS, merchant of Newark, was born in Noble County, Ohio,
September 9, 1857, and is a son of Henry and Minerva Delong (Gilkerson) Shields,
who were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio. They came to Indiana in
April, 1865, and settled on a farm in Beech Creek Township, where they still
reside. They are the parents of ten children, only five— Andrew Jackson, George
H., James H., Sarah E. (wife of William Torrence) and Dora B.—yet living. Andrew
Jackson came with his parents to Indiana, and remained with them until his
marriage with Miss Louisa M. Frame, a daughter of Jacob and Martha Frame, who
reside at Solsberry. He then engaged in farming until 1870, when he entered the
State University at Bloomington and remained three years. During his life he has
taught twelve years of public school. In the spring of 1883, he formed a
partnership with J. B. Young, at Newark, in the general mercantile business, at
which he is still engaged. He is a stanch Republican in politics, and a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while his wife is connected with the
Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Shields are the parents of one son—Oscar
Raymond. During the extra session of the State Legislature in 1881, Mr. Shields
was Enrolling Clerk in the Lower House, which position he filled with
commendable praise.

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Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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