History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . rs are: Lucy, wife of ThomasMurphy; Eliza, wife of CaptainThomas Boardman, who resided atIpswich, Mass., and was lost at sea;Mary, wife of Joseph Hovey, of Ips-wich, Mass. As early as seven years of ageJames Andrews went into the busyworld to carve out a fortune for him-self. At the age of fourteen he be-gan a three-years ajiprenticeshipwith the firm of Toppan & Cutler,brick-layers and masons of Saco, andsubsequently worked at his trade forseveral years in Portland and Lowellas a jour
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . rs are: Lucy, wife of ThomasMurphy; Eliza, wife of CaptainThomas Boardman, who resided atIpswich, Mass., and was lost at sea;Mary, wife of Joseph Hovey, of Ips-wich, Mass. As early as seven years of ageJames Andrews went into the busyworld to carve out a fortune for him-self. At the age of fourteen he be-gan a three-years ajiprenticeshipwith the firm of Toppan & Cutler,brick-layers and masons of Saco, andsubsequently worked at his trade forseveral years in Portland and Lowellas a journeyman. In 1840 he mar-ried Mary, daughter of CaptainThomas Ellis, formerly of the Britisharmy. His children are: Melville Andrews, ex-Statesenator, Willett, Solon, and MaryElizabeth, wife of Albert K. Cleaves,of Biddeford. Following his marriage, for threeyears he was employed in the SacoCotton Mills; and from 1843 to 1850he followed his trade, among others,building the Methodist Episcopalchurch edifice in 1847, and the HighSchool building, in Biddeford, in1848. For fourteen years following. 1850, he was engaged in Portland,where he built one and one-half milesof wall along the sea, making Com-mercial Street, and rebuilding themasonry work of the (irand TrunkRailway. In 1866 he furnished the stone, ascontractor, for the piers of the bridgeacross the Merrimac River at Ncw-buryport, and from 1868 to 1874,under contract from General J. , he built the sea walls on Ga-loup Island and Long Island, inBoston Harbor, since which timeuntil 1879 he has been engaged incontracts for submarine work on thePiscataqua, Merrimac, Penobscot,and Back Rivers. Mr. Andrews has spent a life ofnetivity and business; yet amid allliis cares, he has found time to dohis part in local matters, and is apromoter of all worthy enterprises. He was formerly a member of theWhig party, and readily joined theRepublican party upon its organiza-tion. For three years he was alder-man, and in 1857 wa
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