Percy Chester Andrews and Mary Ellen Halfpenney

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Husband Percy Chester Andrews ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Sep 1884 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: William Marion Andrews (1858-1915) 4 5 6
         Mother: Melda E. Truitt (1860-      ) 1 4 7

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       Marriage: 1912 - Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 8

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Wife Mary Ellen Halfpenney ⁸

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Children

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1 F Catherine J. Andrews ⁸

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         Spouse: J. D. St. Clair (      -      ) 8

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2 F Mary L. Andrews ⁸

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         Spouse: James L. Marks, Jr. (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Percy Chester Andrews

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He attended New Bethlehem schools, and in furtherance of his preparatory education studied at the Kiskiminetas Springs Preparatory School, in Saltsburg. He graduated from Bucknell University in 1907 as a Bachelor of Philosophy. In that year he became associated with the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company, which his uncle and father owned. Twenty years later Percy C. Andrews became president of this enterprise. So intimate was his career-long association with this company that no record of Mr. Andrews' life would be complete except against the background of the organization's history. It was his grandfather, Charles Edgar Andrews, who founded the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company in New Bethlehem, doing so by purchasing a small old sawmill from Corbett & O'Donnell. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1859. In the following year, 1860, Charles E. Andrews went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to buy machinery for a new mill, which became the largest sawmill on Red Bank Creek. It was from this sawmill that he produced the materials for building the coal boats to ply the Ohio and Mississippi rivers during Civil War days, which became so important a part of his business at that time; and he furnished lumber for many other purposes besides. As time went on, he admitted both his sons to the business: Firman L. and William M. Andrews, Percy C. Andrews' uncle and father, who served as president and treasurer respectively. Through that period Charles E. Andrews, Jr. was vice-president, and G. A. Berger secretary. For a time the organization was known as C. E. Andrews & Son, after the admittance of Firman L. Andrews; but when William M. joined the company, after 1903, the older style of the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company was re-adopted.
The C. E. Andrews Lumber Company performed many important tasks in the lumber and contracting business in New Bethlehem, including the building of such edifices as the First National Bank Building, one of New Bethlehem's distinctive architectural triumphs. This bank, incidentally, was long connected also with the Andrews family, having been founded by the grandfather, Charles E. Andrews, back in 1872, as the New Bethlehem Savings Bank, and having become, in 1894, the First National Bank. Percy Chester Andrews served the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company as its president, and he also shouldered a number of other business responsibilities. He was president and treasurer of the Andrews Real Estate Company and the Citizens' Water Company, vice-president of the Meadow River Lumber Company and the Meadow River Coal & Land Company (of Rainelle, West Virginia), and a director of the Bank of Rainelle. He was also a director of the First National Bank of New Bethlehem, as was his brother, Tom T. Andrews. Percy C. Andrews belonged to the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he had many affiliations, including membership in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Consistory. He was affiliated with the First Baptist Church. [HNP, 405]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 608.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 405, 577.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 405.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 438.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 607.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 405, 496, 577.

7 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 405, 496.

8 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 406.