My Genealogy Hound

ANDREW LOWN is a substantial and progressive farmer living in the town of Ellery, who has risen to a position of affluence by industry and good management. He is a son of John and Mary (Tompkins) Lown and was born in the town of Gerry, Chautauqua county, New York, June 13, 1830, and is now in the sixty-second year of his age. The family, as the name implies, was of German extraction and his grandfather was Robert Lown. John Lown was a native of Lyons, Wayne county, New York, and came to Chautauqua county, settling in Gerry, in 1820. He purchased a tract of one hundred acres from the Holland Land company and resided upon it until his death. Politically he was a whig; and married Mary Tompkins, who became the mother of three sons and five daughters — all of the former and one of the latter are yet living: Sebastian, married Phoebe Hollenbeck and now lives in the town of Gerry, a retired farmer; Robert, first married Mary A. Hollenbeck, and afterwards Susan Mason, and is now a farmer living in the town of Ellery, this county; Jane, united with Elisha Pickard, who is a farmer residing in the town of Ellicot; and Andrew.

Andrew Lown was educated in the common schools and followed farming from boyhood. He has amassed a fine property, consisting of one hundred acres in the town of Gerry and seventy acres in Ellery, and is in very good circumstances. Politically he is a republican and is a representative of the best class in his party.

In 1857 he united in marriage with Fannie Rhodes, and is now the father of three children: Charles, lives with his father and owns and operates a creamery with financial success — a difficult thing to do where much competition is encountered; Bertha; and John.

Andrew Lown is a man who realizes that the sure road to success is strict attention to business and feeling that the Grange Association is improving the welfare of the farmers, he has associated himself with it.