BIOGRAPHY: Andrew J. McDowell; Steuben co., NY
surname: McDowell. Dumars, McFarland, McCutchen

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Author: History of Mercer County, PA, 1888

ANDREW J. MCDOWELL, farmer, post-office Greenville [Mercer County, PA], was 
born in Steuben County, N. Y., May 1, 1827. His parents were James and 
Catharine (McCutchen) McDowell, natives of Scotland, who emigrated from 
Ireland with a family of six children about 1823, and settled in Steuben 
County, N. Y. Three children were born after their coming. About 1835 the 
family removed to Trumbull County, Ohio, where the father died in June, 1844. 
This broke up the home, and the mother afterward died at the home of her 
daughter in Clarksville, Mercer County. Andrew J. came to Greenville from Ohio 
in April, 1844, and began working in Samuel Goodwin's Sawmill at $11 per 
month and board himself, all of which was paid in orders on Goodwin' s store. 
He afterward worked eight years in a. foundry as a molder, and then went 
boating on the canal for three summers. He subsequently opened a livery 
stable, which he carried on successfully nearly seven years. In April, 1864, 
he purchased the farm upon which he has since resided, and erected his present 
residence in 1879. Mr. McDowell was married September 10, 1858, to Miss Phebe 
J., daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Dumars) McFarland, the former a native of 
Washington County, Penn , and the latter of Mercer County, both of whom died 
in Trumbull County, Ohio. Mrs. McDowell was born on the McFarland homestead, 
in Trumbull County, and is the mother of three children: Charley E., Willie A. 
and Minnie A. M. Mr. McDowell and wife are members of the Evangelical 
Association, and politically he is a stanch Republican. He is one of the 
successful, enterprising farmers of West Salem Township.