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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1954-07-14, Page 6« BAG® six THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO " ,| " “ " ..... ........................** . , ' ' 1 Relates I Visit With Andrew- Lane Clan In Minnesota (By S. B. Stothers) of the, Andrew- doubtless be in­ terested in some notes on the ’writer’s recent .visit with the Andrews in Glenwood,. Lowry «md Virginia, Minnesota., .' • • To revert to history it appears that Wm. E. Andrew and his wife Mary Ann Flexman arrived in Canada from Bideford in Devon, England, in August 1850. They brought a family of six girls apd Cfour boys to the new land, The youngest was Job who was four months old when they sailed and six months old when they ar­ rived;. He was , dropped off the jgang plank on arrival but for-, Innately rescued. . Mrs. Andrew died in 1854, four years after their arrival and'W« E. Andrew died on the farm now •owned [by George Hunter in 1878. It is interesting to note that five of the family settled in Ash­ field and •, Wawanosh Townships The members Lane Clan will and. five wept to- the U.S.—-one to Michigan and four to Minnesota. Those settling permanently in Ontario were John and Edmund Andrew of the 12th Con;, Ash­ field; Mrs. John McDonagh (Mary Ann) . and Mrs, Chas, Baynes (Caroline) on the same conces­ sion and Mrs. Edward McQuillan (Elizabeth) on the 13th Con, of West Wawanosh, , . .Alice married' Edwin Cox of Granby, Que., and went to Glen- wood, Minh., in 1866. Mr. Cox was an- ‘early settler there and Mrs- Cox told many stories of calls from the Indians in that day; Mr. Cox served one term in the Minnesota Legislature, In 1880 the Jphn Penningtons (Aiint Isabella) as well as W.E. Andrew 2nd, arid Job Andrew, took up land in the samesection. The four , were tall settled in a compaartively small area cover­ ing not more than 10 miles-—we o BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR FORD DEALER invites you to prove Ford is today’s worth-more car PHONE TODAY for a demonstration 4ia Montgomery Motors Ford*Moriatcli Dealer—Phone LudmoW ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... helieve much less. These are all nice farms now in other hands. They are in a particularly fine section of the State. The Briggs family settled in Melvin, Mich. Mrs. Briggs, was Sarah Jane Andrew. It is interesting to not© that the ten childreri settled on farms, in Michigan, Minnesota and .Q'R® tario. Some seventy-five children were \born into the' next1 genera­ tion of whom some twenty sur­ vive at the present time. Our visit.was spent under the guidance of Job Andrew’s son^JW. E. 3rd, his daughter Ali,ce and his son-in-law, Iyer Ingebrettson. W. E . and Alice never married and Iver married Sarah Jane An­ drew. These three and’ a nephew, Russel Moffat, will be remember­ ed by many as visitors to the Andrew Lane Centennial held in Lucknow-in 1950. W. E. retired, from the farm taken up by his father, in 1944. He ■. showed us the country and drove Well up ’ to one thousand miles in five days spent there. ; Alice has been teaching in the Iron Range part of Minnesota for some time and retired some two years ago and lives in Virginia •where -she -had taught --for-some years.’ • 1 We also Visited Mrs. Geo. Blair, a. daughter of W.„ E. Andrew the 2nd in Glenwood. Glenwood is the County seat of Pope County and the original court house/ 8’x9’, built of oak logs, stands beside, the modern court house as a reminder of early days. This mpdern court house has a particularly fine -museum- where pictures, sou ven r irs and antiques are on, display as well as historical sketches of the early families. We were main­ ly interested in the Andrew and Ingebrettson J’obituaries” or_sio.r< ies. . Iver Ingebrettson’s father, who came from Norway, was one of the first Board of County Com­ missioners—similar to our Couq-., ty Council. Iver himself served in the Phillipines in the Spanish war in the 19th century and has souvenirs to prove' it. Before wd forget, his wife was Sara Jane Andrew, also a. daughter of J.ob. He is president of the Lowry State Bank and tells us he open* ed Up his bank in 1899 in a shack across the street from their new and modern quarters. Thus he has served the citizens of Lowry and district for lover half, a cen­ tury. '• • Mrs. Job Andrew was Jane Hunter, a sister to Wm. Hunter and Robt. Hunter, who at one time farmed qn the 12th Con- cession of Ashfield and »is thus related to/7fhe Hunters “aricfTtit1" chies. Mrs: W. E. Andrew’s maid­ en name wa^ Gardipei^ apparent­ ly from Wingham where Wm. and Job lived for. some time. It is interesting to. note that W; E. (Ned) Ari drew “the third” has in his possession the old muzzle loading musket that his. grandfather brought over from the Old Country in 1850, In the museum in Glenwood We were interested to see a. copy of the Lucknow Sentinel carry-, ing a report of trie Andrew Lane Centenial in 1950. It is a part of the. historical record of the fam- ily. , • ' What were our impressions of Minnesota? It is a beautiful farm country with well tilled farms —'good herds and modern build­ ings. We now -know why they call it “Land O’ Lakes’*. It, is Unlikely anybody has counted them but the auto license' plates bear the legend “10,000 Lakes”, We can believe it too.. Then the Iron Range is another thing’. The Range ruris^for 50 dr 60 miles where the top is strip­ ped off and iron ore in many, cases loaded by power machines into cars where it goes to Dul­ uth, Superior and other places and then to .the iron, furnaces on L^esMichigan a nd Huron. There is Comparatively little ag^ L^uJture^mJ^e^n^ It Was . a great experience to visit- the1 scenes of the families activity in Minnesota. One would be pardoned we hopb, for* ex­ periencing a feeling of pride in the family and their coritrtbution td thd; ri&W ’world; In out'night sessions we dis- cuseed questidns about the An- dreWs of' both countries, ih£ 1 A ’ ■ 1 WEDNESDAY, JULY I4U1, 1954 Lanes the Hunters, the McQuil- pioneers told’ afterwards about, Ians, the. McDonaghs, the Baynes, the adventures of the .trip, but the Ritchies, the Barkwells and' none was more relished than one all the other families represented1 on Paul, The Foslien family had on the family tree. We even drag-1 brought with them a good sup- gd the skeletons out. of .the closet ply of gamalost, a. Norwegian but we cannot do that for those cheese. On foggy days, when it. outside the family circle; It you. was difficult to determine, dir- belo.ng your name was mentiori- e’d. It was "a“ great experiencer- - 1 . on Paul, The Foslien family had I'I ections, the caravan would , put I^a ul’s- -w-agon--in v -th e- Je a d- —f gf- Here, is a story of the covered even if they got on the wrong ians were moving into . Minne-. by following the scent of the sota in caravans < or Wagons. “Many were the stories these as\ariyone. days when the Norweg^j frail; they could keep together covered; cheese, which all goes to show the pioneers loved.a joke as well •t / tkMvtoU-to-W* 4 If you want to replace worn-out roofing on - ” your farm-house or buildings;.. there’s good , news, for you at the Bank of Montreal, A shortage of ready cash need not hold up your farm improvement plans. A B of M Farm.' 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