Henry Franklin Andrews

ANDREWS, HAMBLEN, TINGLE, INGALLS, STEARNS, MIXER, CALL, JOHNSON, ABBOTT, BEARCE, ALMONY

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1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO
pages 701-703

HENRY FRANKLIN ANDREWS, of
Audubon, was born in Lovell, Oxford
County, Maine, June 27, 1844. He is
the eldest child of Jacob and Martha Phin-
ney (Hamblen) Andrews. His brothers and
sisters are - Dr. Charles Hamblen Andrews,
of Exira, born June 21, 1847; Isaac Stearns
Andrews, a farmer, residing three miles north-
east of Atlantic, Iowa, born April 25, 1849,
and Sarah Kimball Andrews, born September
25, 1857, who married William Tingle, of
Cass County, Iowa, and removed to Bassett,
Nebraska, where she died September 26,
1887. Mr. Andrews is descended in nearly
every branch of his family from the earliest
New England settlers. In the paternal line
his first ancestor in America was Robert An-
draws, who came from England with his
wife, Elizabeth, and resided at Ipswich,
Massachusetts, as early as 1635. This was
the home of this branch of the family down
to the time of the Revolutionary war,
through six generations, including Robert
Andrews, viz.: John Andrews, and Sarah,
his wife; John Andrews, and Judith, his
wife; William Andrews, and Margaret Wood-
ward, his wife; Solomon Andrews, and Eliza-
beth Ingalls, his wife, married October 27,
1726, and Captain Abraham Andrews, born
September 6, 1747, married Esther Stearns,
October 19, 1773, who was descended from
Isaac and Mary Stearns, who came from
England and settled at Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, in 1632; their son, John Stearns,
and his wife, Sarah Mixer, settled at Biller.
ica, Massachusetts; their son, Captain John
Stearns, and his wife, Joanna (Call) Parker,
of the same place, and their son, John Stearns,
and his wife, Esther Johnson, and their son,
Hon. Isaac Stearns, and wife, Sarah Abbott,
of the same place, who were the parents of
Esther Stearns. Isaac Stearns, as well as
many other members of the Stearns family,
was a soldier in the French and Indian wars.
Captain Andrews was at the battle of Lex-
ington, and served all through the war of the
Revolution. He was a Captain in the Second
Regiment of Massachusetts Foot (Infantry),
in 1788. With his brother-in-law, Benjamin
Stearns, and wife's uncle, John Stearns, he
removed to Lovell, Maine, and made the
first white settlement in the town. His son,
Isaac Stearns, was born here, August 13,
1788. He married Sally Kimball, October
15, 1815. Their son, Jacob Andrews, father
of H. F. Andrews, was born at Lovell, Maine,
February 24, 1820. In the maternal line
Mr. Andrews' first ancestor in America was
James Hamblen and Anne, his wife, who
came from London, England, and settled at
Barnstable, Massachusetts, about 1639, where
four generations of the family were born -
their son, John Hamblen, born June 26, 1644,
married Sarah Bearce; their son, Ebenezer
Hamblen, born May 12, 1683, married his
cousin, Thankful Hamblen, May 11, 1710;
their son, Gershon Hamblen, born July 19,
1713, married Hannah Almony, August 9,
1739. He was a soldier in the French war,
under General Wolf at Quebec, in 1759, and
died at Barnstable some time prior to 1763.
Their son, Gershom Hamblen, was born Sep-
tember 16, 1745. In the year 1763 the
widow of the elder Gershom Hamblen, with
her children, including the son Gershom, re-
moved to Gorham, Maine, and settled there
upon land granted them by the Legislature
of Massachusetts, for military services ren-
dered by their relatives in King Philip's war
of 1675. Two sons of James and Anne
Hamblen, Bartholomew and Eleazer, are
known to have been members of Captain
John Gorham's company, of Barnstable, and
served in that war. Gershom Hamblen, the
younger, married Deborah Jenkins at Gor-
ham, December 17, 1774. Their son, Ichabod
Hamblen, was born at Gorham, April 11,
1791. He married Lydia Webb Fickett at
Portland, Maine, October 11, 1815. He was
a soldier in time war of 1812. Their daugh-
ter, Martha Phinney Hamblen, mother of
Mr. Andrews, was born at Limington, Maine,
December 25, 1818. Ex-Vice-President Han-
nibal Hamlin, of Bangor, Maine, is a lineal
descendant of James and Anne Hamblen,
above mentioned. Of the family of Stearns,
above mentioned, Hon. Onslow Stearns was
Governor of New Hampshire, and Hon. Mar-
cellus L. Stearns was Governor of Florida.
Hon. George Andrews, one of time present
Supreme Judges of New York, and Hon.
Abraham Andrews Barker, of Ebensburg,
Pennsylvania, are descendants of Captain
Abraham Andrews. The parents of Mr.
Andrews were married at Lovell, Maine,
June 25, 1843. Mr. Andrews lived with his
father until he was eighteen years of age,
first at Lovell, then a few years at Stoneham,
an adjoining town. The family then moved
to Portland and lived four years, when in
1853 they returned to Lovell and remained
until 1865. Mr. Andrews attended the com-
mon district school, summer and winter,
until he was twelve years of age; he then
worked on his father's farm and in the tim-
ber, his father being then engaged in farming
and lumbering during the spring, summer
and autumn months, and attending school in
the winter. Thus he received an education
in the common branches then taught in the
district school. July 18, 1862, he enlisted
as a private soldier, for three years, in Com-
pany D, Sixteenth Regiment Maine Volun-
teer Infantry. He served through the war,
and was discharged as a private at Washing~
ton, D. 0., July 13, 1865. He participated
with his regiment in the following services:
Antietam campaign, September, 1862; the
battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, Decem-
ber 12-15, 1862; Burnside's mud march,
Falmouth, Virginia; battle of Chancellors-
yule, Virginia, April 28 to May 4, 1863;
march to point near Gettysburg, Pennsyl-
vania, June, 1863; engagement at Rappa-
hannock Station, Virginia, August 1, 1863;
march from Culpepper, Virginia, to Center-
ville, Virginia, October 11-17, 1863; skir-
mish at Bristow Station, Virginia, November
26-30, 1863; Wilderness and Spottsylvania
Court House campaign, May, 1864. The
last year of the war, from June, 1864, on
account of ill-health, he was on detached
service at Washington, D. C. In June, 1865,
his parents, brothers, sister and grandfather
Andrews removed to Exira, where he joined
them October 3, 1865. The following year
he taught school in Cass County, at Crooked
Creek. The summer of 1866 he worked at
farm labor in Audubon County, and the fol-
lowing winter taught school in Nathaniel
Hamlin's district, in the south part of Audu-
bon County. At the general election in 1866
he was elected recorder of Audubon County,
and served two years, and worked a portion
of the time at carpenter work. In the sum-
mer of 1868 he was appointed county judge
of Audubon County, to fill a vacancy until
the general election of that year. In the fall
of 1866 his father purchased land, built a
residence and opened a farm, now occupied
and owned by J. J. Hensly and J. H. Basham,
one-half mile south of Exira. This place Mr.
Andrews made his home most of the time
until his parents sold the farm and removed
to their present farm and residence, two miles
northeast of Atlantic, Iowa, in 1869. In
1870, as Deputy United States Marshal, he
took the census in Audubon County, and also
Shelby County. In 1870 he was admitted to
the bar of Audubon County, as an attorney
and counselor at law, which profession he has
since followed with short intermissions. Feb-
ruary 25, 1871, at Atlantic, Iowa, he was
married to Jennie Maria Norton, by Rev. M.
Hughes. She was a daughter of William C.
Norton and his wife, Ruth Harriet (Thayer)
Norton, of Oakfield, born at Fort Wayne,
Indiana, June 21, 1850. Her parents were
formerly from Spring Water, Livingston
County, New York. They settled at Oak-
field in 1856. Mrs. Norton died in June,
1882; Mr. Norton died in November, 1884.
Both are buried at the Oakfield Cemetery,
and were at the time of their decease mem-
bers of the Methodist Episcopal church. The
children of Mr. and Mrs.. H. F. Andrews
were all born at Exira, Iowa. They are -
Charles Franklin, born April 24, 1872;
Claude Norton, born March 10, 1874; Jessa-
mine Julia, born April 16, 1877; Wallace
Pearl, born July 28, 1879; John Hamblen,
born October 15, 1886; Philip Stearns, born
July 20, 1888. In 1872 Mr. Andrews at-
tended one term of the law department of the
Iowa State University. Aside from the school
privileges above mentioned, Mr. Andrews has
been a self-educated man, he has resided at
Exira nearly continuously since his settle-
ment there in 1865, the only exceptions being
a residence at Iowa City four months in the
latter part of 1872, and a residence of one
year at Atlantic, from October, 1874, and a
residence at Audubon from March to Octo-
ber, 1882. In politics he has always been a
Republican. His grandfather, Isaac Andrews,
died at Exira, December 31, 1868. Both his
grandfather and sister are buried in the ceme-
tery at Exira. Since March, 1882, the law
office of Mr. Andrews has been located at
Audubon. Mr. Andrews is a member of
Exodus Lodge, No. 342, A. F. & A. M.,
Exira; Exira Lodge, No. 181, K. of P., Ex-
ira; Allison Post, No. 34, G. A. R.; Audu-
bon, Nishnabotna Tribe, No. 8, I. 0. R. M.,
Audubon; Audubon Lodge, No. 115, I. L.
H., Audubon. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews are
both members of the Eastern Star Lodge at
Audubon. At this time he is associated in
the law business with William H. Hanna,
Esq., county attorney of Audubon County,
under the firm name of Andrews & Hanna.