BIOGRAPHIES: Mortimer L. ANDRUS, Chetek, Barron County, WI

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Mortimer L. Andrus, farmer, P. O. Chetek, Barron county, was born in Steuben 
county, N. Y., December 16, 1843, one of the six children of William and Mary 
(Gilbert) Andrus, both of New England birth. The father worked as a mill-
wright until he came to Dane county. He remained there until 1863, when he 
moved to southern Illinois, where he lived until his death in 1865. Our 
subject started out in life at the early age of ten years with but a limited 
education, and was compelled to work at whatever a small boy could find to do 
until he arrived at the age of seventeen years, when he enlisted in Company E, 
Eighth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry, known as the "Eagle Regiment." 
He participated in about thirty engagements, and was all through the Red River 
expedition. He was mustered out at Demopolis, Ala., in November, 1865. On his 
way north to Wisconsin, he married, in Carbondale, Ill., Miss Helen Gilbert, 
who has borne him two children, Nellie, now married to Nelson Good, and 
Herbert, who lives at home. After his marriage Mr. Andrus came back to Dane 
county, Wis., and remained there until 1879, when he came to Barron county, 
and took up a homestead on sections thirty-five and thirty-six Chetek 
township, of 160 acres, and has about 120 acres improved. When he first came 
to Barron county he was $1,800 in debt, but by shrewd management and by 
furnishing supplies to camps in the woods, he has paid the debt and is now 
well to do. He is also largely engaged in raising blooded stock. In politics 
he is a republican and is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist society. Mr.
Andrus would never accept any office, although he has been urged to do so 
several times.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 836.