Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: general good. He is a man of broad culture, of excellent business and executive ability and practical judgment and his life of industry has brought him rich reward in the high estimation in which his acquaintances hold him as a business man and as a citizen. ANDREW J. HEDRICK. No history of Livingston...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: general good. He is a man of broad culture, of excellent business and executive ability and practical judgment and his life of industry has brought him rich reward in the high estimation in which his acquaintances hold him as a business man and as a citizen. ANDREW J. HEDRICK. No history of Livingston county would be complete without mention of Andrew J. Hedrick, who is one of the largest landowners and prominent agriculturists of the state, his property holdings aggregating two thousand acres. In the seventy-seventh year of his age, he still operates and manages his farm, which by hard labor and unremitting industry throughout the years he has made a valuable and productive property. Mr. Hedrick was born in Tazewell, Virginia, in September, 1836, and is a son of Henry and Nancy (Whitley) Hedrick, both of whom have passed away, the mother dying December 22, 1880, and the father November 16, 1890. Both are buried at Utica. Andrew J. Hedrick acquired his education in the public schools of his native section and laid aside his books at the age of sixteen, securing a position as a farm laborer. He worked thus for two years, after which he came to Livingston county and began his independent agricultural career, buying one hundred acres of land, which he has gradually increased to its present dimensions. Upon this property he is carrying on mixed farming, harvesting annually abundant crops of hay and grain and being likewise extensively interested in stock-raising. In addition to this Mr. Hedrick has gained some local reputation as an expert poultry raiser and has about five hundred fowl upon his premises. He has led an active, useful and honorable life and now occupies a position of prominence and importance in agricultural circles as a result of his sound business ability and...