BIO:  Andrew J. DUDEN, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 76

ANDREW J. DUDEN was born at York, Penn., January 25, 1841, and is the only child 
of John A. and Sarah (Jack) Duden.  His father died in 1846, aged forty-seven 
years, but his mother is still living, aged about eighty-two years.  He came to 
Wrightsville, in 1847, and remained about ever since, receiving his early 
education here.  At the age of fifteen, he began learning the trade of 
wheelwright, and worked at it until twenty-two years of age, excepting the time 
he served in the army.  September 23, 1861, he enlisted at Harrisburg, in 
Company I, Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served eighteen 
months in the department of the South.  At Pocataligo, he was wounded by a rifle 
ball in the right cheek.  He carried the ball for six years in his neck, when it 
was discovered that it had lodged against his collar bone, and was removed.  On 
account of the wound, he lay in the hospital five months, and finally was 
discharged on account of disability.  He was virtually sergeant-major at the 
time he was wounded, but did not receive the appointment until after his 
discharge.  In 1870, he engaged in the planing-mill business at Wrightsville, in 
company with Mr. Zorbaugh, in which business he is engaged at the present day.  
He was one of the organizers of the Wrightsville Hardware Company, and is the 
present secretary; also of the Wrightsville and Chanceford Turnpike Company and 
of the Wrightsville Hall Association, and is director of the latter.  He has 
held various borough offices; burgess, councilman and school director, for 
several terms.  November 23, 1864, he was married at Wrightsville, to Emma Mann 
of the same borough, and has had three children:  Charles F., Sally M., and 
Ralph.  Mrs. Duden is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Duden is a 
Mason, a member of the I. O. O. F., and officer of the day of the G. A. R.  He 
sold out the planing-mill, April 1, 1884, and is going to Columbia, to engage in 
pulverizing rock flint.  He is also proprietor of a cigar box factory, and 
manufactures annually about 225,000 boxes, employing about twenty hands.