ANDREW SHEWMAN

SHEWMAN

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/21/2020 at 12:40:14

ANDREW SHEWMAN has been identified with the agricultural interests of Adams county since the year 1875. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Crawford county, August 19, 1819, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Craft) Shewman, natives also of the "Keystone" State and of German descent.

Our subject was reared in the State of his birth, receiving a limited education in the subscription schools held in the primitive log schoolhouse of that time. At the tender age of nine years he was put upon his own responsibility, and started out to earn his living. At the age of eighteen years he came to Illinois, where he remained about one year, after which he returned to Pennsylvania. He was united in marriage November 19, 1841, to Miss Mary Ann Stilling, a daughter of Walter and Dorcas (Huston) Stilling, natives of Pennsylvania, of French and English descent. In 1850 Mr. Shewman and his family emigrated to the West, and located in Jackson county, Iowa, where he purchased 160 acres of partially improved land on which he resided twenty-five years. In 1875 he came to Adams county and bought eighty acres of land upon which some improvements had been made; his farm now consists of 208 acres developed into one of the best farms in the county.

Mr. and Mrs. Shewman are the parents of five children: Benjamin J., of Sioux City; Ormina W., the wife of William Robertson; William, of Greenwood county, Kansas; Alvina, wife of John Stout of Antelope county, Nebraska; and W. W., of Cass county, Iowa. The parents are consistent members of the Baptist Church; they have lived together a half a century, a life of peace, happiness and content. Mr. Shewman is allied with the Republican party. He is a self-made man, and has accumulated a good property which he uses to the best advantage in giving his children a good, practical education, a treasure of which no man can defraud them.