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				ANDREW J. AND SOPHIA (EAVEY) GREENHOE.

ANDREW J. GREENHOE is one of the residents of Evergreen Township, Montcalm County, who have made 
their way up, step by step, from poverty and hardship to prosperity and honor.  He was born in 
Summit County, Ohio, December 17, 1839, and is the son of John and Nancy (Wheeler) Greenhoe.  
When a little child of less than four years old he was deprived of a mother's care and his 
boyhood was saddened by this affliction.  His father emigrated to Michigan when this son was 
about sixteen years of age, and they settled in Ionia County.  He took advantage of what few 
educational opportunities came in his way, but found them scanty and poor.  The home farm in 
Ionia County was hewed out of the forest.  The father removed to Montcalm County in 1871, his 
son, our subject, having made his home here since the beginning of 1867.
	August 13, 1861, saw this young man an enlisted soldier in Company B., the Sixteenth 
Michigan Infantry.  He served in the army of the Potomac under Gens. McClellan and Grant.  The 
principal engagements in which he took part were the seven days on the Penisula and the 
Wilderness and the battles of Petersburg, Gettysburg and Fredericksburg.  He was with Grant at 
the time of Lee's surrender.  He was mustered out of service with an honorable discharge at 
Jeffersonville, Ind., July 8, 1865.  Throughout all the war he escaped a scar.
	Mr. Greenhoe has always been a Democrat, and was such all through the war, being known 
by the term so well understood in those days, a War Democrat.  He went into the army as a 
private and came out as a commissioned officer, a Lieutenant, having made his way, step by step,
by virtue of his faithfulness and bravery.  He is a member of the Church of the United Brethen.  
He has held the offices of Clerk and Treasurer of the County for some time.  His marriage, April
2, 1865, united him with Sophia Eavey of Montcalm County.  They became the happy parents of two 
children:  Alice M., born July 5, 1866, and Grace T., November 27, 1875.  Alice is now the wife 
of Wesley Greenhoe, of this county.  Our subject belongs to Tom Custer Post, No. 178, at 
Sheridan.
 


This biography is taken from "PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, 
MICHIGAN."  Chapman Brothers.  Chicago, Illinois.  1891.  Pages 371-372.