Andrew Ritchie (b. 1821)

RITCHIE, ANDERSON, ARMOUR

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/4/2002 at 13:31:42

Ritchie, Andrew, farmer, Section 29 (Fremont township); PO Mill; born in Ayrshire, Scotland, February 24, 1821. Married Annie Anderson in Scotland in September, 1840; she was born in Ayrshire in 1821 and died in the same place in 1851. His second wife, Annie Armour, was also born in Ayrshire, October 9, 1834. They were married September 19, 1854, and in the same year, they, with his first wife's children, took passage for the United States; landing in New York they immediately left for the West by way of the Hudson River and the lakes as far as Detroit, where they boarded the train for Chicago, in which city and vicinity they lived until the Fall of 1855, when they moved to Rock Co., Wisconsin, where Mr. R. made his home up to 1861, when he moved and settled in this County. Mr. R., who is Republican, has held the office of School Trustee and is at the present Treasurer of that Board. Mr. R. has a spacious residence in which his large and very interesting family mingle together in the enjoyment of the plenty accumulated by the energy and thrift of the husband and father. One son, James, enlisted in the 8th Wis. Bat. and now resides in Chicago.

Page 746, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"