Biography of
Judge George W. Andrews
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GEORGE W. ANDREWS. One of the
venerable but still vigorous and active members of the bar of Jackson county is Judge George Washington Andrews,
who established his home in Murphysboro and here engaged in the practice of his
profession nearly half a century ago. The intervening years have been marked by
large and distinguished accomplishment along the line of his profession, of
which he has long stood as one of the leading representatives in Southern
Illinois, and he has also been called upon to serve in various offices of
distinctive public trust, the while he has guided his course upon the highest
plane of integrity and honor and thus has well merited the unequivocal
confidence and esteem in which he is held in the prosperous community that has
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long been his home and in which he
is a citizen of prominence and influence.
Judge Andrews takes a due measure
of pride in reverting to the fine old Buckeye state as the place of his nativity
and he is a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born at
Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio, now one of the most beautiful cities of the
state, and the date of his nativity was February 22, 1842, so that he was
consistently given the name of the great American on whose birthday anniversary
he was ushered into the
world. He is a son of Samuel A. and Margaret (Ramsey) Andrews, who passed the
closing years of their lives at Dayton, the father having been actively
identified with agricultural pursuits during virtually his entire career and
having been a man of the highest character, so that he ever commanded a secure
place in the confidence and esteem of his fellow men, the while his forceful
individuality and broad mentality made him a local leader in thought and action. Judge Andrews is indebted to the common schools of his
native state for his early education and he gained his due quota of youthful
experience in connection with the work of the home farm. He continued his
studies in a well ordered academy at Fairfield, Ohio, and in the Presbyterian
Institute at Hayesville, that state, after which he entered with characteristic
vigor and earnestness upon the work of preparing himself for the profession of
his choice. He was matriculated in the law department of the celebrated
University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in which he completed the prescribed
curriculum and was graduated as a member of the class of 1865. After thus
receiving his well earned degree of Bachelor of Laws Judge
Andrews came to Illinois and sought for an eligible field of endeavor. He
remained for a brief interval at Jonesboro and in May, 1865, he established his
permanent home at Murphysboro, the judicial center of Jackson county, where he
has continued to reside during the long intervening period and where he has been
most successful in the general practice of his profession, to which he still
continues to give close attention. He has been identified with much important
litigation in the courts of this section of the state and is now worthy of
designation as the dean of his profession in Jackson county, where he commands
the highest vantage ground in the confidence and esteem of his confreres and
also the general public.
In addition to the work of his profession Judge Andrews has given most loyal and effective service
in various offices of public order. He was master in chancery for Jackson county
for eleven years and served on the bench of the county court for five years. For
two years he held the office of postmaster of Murphysboro and he served one term
as mayor of the city, as well as one term as city attorney, - preferments which
well indicate the high regard in which he is held in his home community, in the
furtherance of whose civic and material progress and prosperity he has ever
shown the deepest interest. For four years Judge Andrews was connected with the government department of the interior in the capacity of
inspector of surveyor generals and land offices, and his service in this office
covered the entire United States. His career has been one of signal activity and
usefulness and has been crowned with well earned honors. He is president of the
Jackson County Bar
Association, is a staunch and effective advocate and supporter of the cause of
the Democratic party, is affiliated with local organizations of the Masonic
fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he has long been
a zealous member of the Presbyterian church, of which his cherished and devoted
wife likewise was a most earnest adherent for many years prior to her demise.
On the 19th of December, 1867, was solemnized the
marriage of P. 1108
Judge Andrews to Miss Jennie Slocum,
of Norwich, New York, in which state she was born and reared, and this loved and
gracious companion and helpmeet remained by his side for nearly forty years, she
having been summoned to the life eternal on the 25th of January, 1905, and her
name and memory being revered by all who came within the sphere of her gentle
and kindly influence. Mrs. Andrews is survived by two
children: Myra M., who is the wife of Harry
O. Ozburn, cashier of the Citizens State & Savings Bank of Murphysboro;
and Eugene S., who is agent for the American Company at
Murphysboro. He married Miss Ethel McClay, of Carbondale,
this state.
Living in a community in which his circle of friends is
coincident with that of his acquaintances and enjoying the well earned rewards
of many years of earnest endeavor, Judge Andrews may well
felicitate himself upon the smiling plenty and fair, prosperous days which mark
the course of his life during the period in which he looks back upon a record of
conscientious application and faithful service as one of the world's productive
workers, and no
citizen is more worthy of special and cordial recognition in this history of
Southern Illinois.
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