Andrew Cornwall
Andrew Cornwall was born on January 25, 1822, in Portland, Connecticut, to Amos and Sybil Cornwall. His father was a farmer who owned $4,000 of real estate and $1,000 of personal property by 1860. He attended school in Portland until he was thirteen, when he reportedly “found employment at East Hampton, and became a hard and incessant worker.”
 
He married Elizabeth Whitmore on January 20, 1843, and they had at least three children: Henry, born on November 16, 1843; Dwight, born on July 14, 1851; and Demas, born on April 15, 1855. The family returned to Portland, and Cornwall worked as a farmer there. By 1860, he owned $6,000 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property. A decade later, he owned $7,000 of real estate and $4,500 of personal property. According to one writer, he was “thorough farmer, and became quite wealthy.”
 
Cornwall supported the Republican Party, and he served as a town selectman. He served in the General Assembly from 1884 to 1885. He died in Portland on July 7, 1894. As a local writer explained, he “was killed…by a steer which he was leading out of the pasture into his barn, when the animal turned quickly, knocking Mr. Cornwall down and trampling on him.” A later report, however, countered that he “died in reality of heart disease brought on by overexertion and excitement in trying to manage the animals.”
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DATABASE CONTENT
(3553)Cornwall, Andrew1822-01-251894-07-07
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 35

  • (9813) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 12 February 1863
  • (9815) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall, 1 March 1863
  • (9816) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 11 April 1863
  • (9820) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 1 June 1863
  • (9821) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 24 June 1863
  • (9822) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 22 June 1863
  • (9823) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 4 July 1863
  • (9824) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 12 July 1863
  • (9867) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 28 July 1863
  • (9868) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 20 August 186X
  • (9869) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 21 October 1863
  • (9870) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 5 November 1863
  • (9871) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, undated
  • (9872) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 12 January 1864
  • (9873) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 25 January 1864
  • (9874) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 28 January 1864
  • (9875) [recipient] ~ Henry A. Cornwall to Andrew Cornwall and Elizabeth Cornwall, 31 January 1864
  • (9876) [recipient] ~ DL1598.018
  • (9877) [recipient] ~ DL1598.019
  • (9878) [recipient] ~ DL1597.020
  • (9879) [recipient] ~ DL1598.021
  • (9880) [recipient] ~ DL1598.022
  • (9881) [recipient] ~ DL1598.023
  • (9882) [recipient] ~ DL1598.024
  • (9883) [recipient] ~ DL1598.025
  • (9884) [recipient] ~ DL1598.026
  • (9885) [recipient] ~ DL1598.027
  • (9886) [recipient] ~ DL1598.028
  • (9887) [recipient] ~ DL1598.029
  • (9888) [recipient] ~ DL1598.030
  • (9889) [recipient] ~ DL1598.031
  • (9890) [recipient] ~ DL1598.032
  • (9891) [recipient] ~ DL1598.033
  • (9892) [recipient] ~ DL1598.034
  • (9893) [recipient] ~ DL1598.035

People - Records: 2

  • (3553) Cornwall, Andrew is the [husband of] (3554) Cornwall, Elizabeth
  • (3552) Cornwall, Henry Augustus is the [child of] (3553) Cornwall, Andrew

Places - Records: 1

  • (2471) [birth, death] ~ Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut

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Groups - Records: 1

  • (3) [member/supporter] ~ Republican Party
SOURCES

1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Commemorative Biographical Record of Middlesex County, Connecticut (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1903); The Waterbury (CT) Democrat, 9 July 1894; The Hartford (CT) Courant, 24 July 1894.