Peter Andres

    Peter Andres, farmer, is a native of France, and a son of Jacob and Margaret Andres, also natives of France, where they are quiet in death. Peter Andres, at about the age of seventeen, in the year 1854, emigrated to the Untied States, and labored by the month for about twelve years. While in New Jersey, he was wedded to Miss Susanna Brass, daughter of Jacob Brass, shoe-maker and farmer. After marriage, Mr. Andres rented land for a year, when he purchased forty-three acres, this he sold, and removed to Ohio, where he rented one year, after which he came to this county (Benton) and purchased forty acres,  this too, he sold and bought eighty acres, which constitutes his present home, and is a very good farm.

    Mr. and Mrs. Andres have seven children -Susanna, Annie, Peter, John, Flora, Antoine and Joseph.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.