In his domestic relations he was kind and affectionate, an obligingneighbor, and a true friend. As a temperance man, he was a model, hisonly beverage being water. He yielded his influence and gave hissupport to all movements for elevating the condition of humanity, morally,intellectually, and religiously. He was bitterly opposed to the extension orperpetuation of slavery, and well acquainted with the working of the"underground railroad". From an earnest Whig, he became an activeRepublican, and gave the party his warmest support. He was a warmfriend of education, and gave several of his large family the advantagesof academical instruction.

Benoni Andrews was born of the 8th day of April, 1809, in the town ofGerman, County of Chenago, New York. He emigrated to Wayne with hisfather's family in the year 1821. He was married to Betsy Palmater in1825. He soon purchased about three hundred acres of wild land oncredit, lying on the north and south centre road, near the north line of thetownship, which he cleared, improved, paid for, and on which he erectedgood farm buildings without pecuniary assistance. Here he carried on hisbusiness until the financial inflation of 1865, when he sold the entireproperty at inflation prices, and moved his homestead to Conneaut,where he died April 27, 1876, at the age of sixty-seven."

THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN
Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn

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