ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

According to 
               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

 "Benoni Andrews was a practical and successful farmer and dairyman,
 industrious, energetic, determined, and persevering in character.  The
 manufacture of dairy products was his specialty, in which he was self-taught, and
 eminently successful, having been awarded the first premiums at the State Fairs in
 Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Zanesville, and Sandusky, and winning for his
 products prices far above the general market.  He was a critical observer,
 analyzing and comparing in order to understand the philosophy of his
 manipulations.  He was a good financier, meeting his obligations promptly and
 never suffered the humiliation of a dun.  He performed the duties of magistrate with
 honor to himself and the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens.
 In his domestic relations he was kind and affectionate, an obliging neighbor, and a
 true friend.  As a tempeerance man, he was a model, his only beverage being
 water.  He yielded his influence and gave his support to all movements for
 elevating the condition of humanity, morally, intellectually, and religiously.  He was
 bitterly opposed to the extension or perpetuation of slavery, and well acquainted
 with the working of the "underground railroad".  From an earnest Whig, he became
 an active Republican, and gave the party his warmest support.  He was a
 warm friend of education, and gave several of his large family the advantages of
 academical instruction.
 Benoni Andrews was born of the 8th day of April, 1809, in the town of German,
 County of Chenago, New York.  He emigrated to Wayne with his father's family in
 the year 1821.  He was married to Betsy Palmater in 1825.  He soon purchased
 about three hundred acres of wild land on credit, lying on the north and south
 centre road, near the north line of the township, which he cleared, improved, paid
 for, and on which he erected good farm buildings without pecuniary assistance.
  Here he carried on his business until the financial inflation of 1865, when he sold
 the entire proterty at inflation prices, and moved his homestead to Conneaut,
 where he died April 27, 1876, at the age of sixty-seven."