U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Core, Andrew S. (1804-1888) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 540 The late General Andrew S. Core, too, merits more than a passing notice in connection with the history of this town. He was born near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on December 25, 1804; and there spent his early life as a glass-blower. By his industry and economy in this business, he accumulated quite a sum of money, and, going to Russell's mill, in Tyler county, entered the mercantile and milling business; and from there came to Ritchie county, perhaps, in the forties, and was identified with the pioneer merchants of Cornwallis for a brief time, before coming to Ellenboro, where he remained until his death, on August 11, 1888. He was at one time numbered among the wealthier men of the county; but owing to his benevolent spirit, died in moderate circumstances. He was the first Collector of Internal Revenues of the State of West Virginia. He served as a soldier in the Union army, and rose to the rank of Brigadier-General, being commissioned by Governor Peirpoint in 1862, and given command of the Twenty-third Brigade of the Third Division of the West Virginia Militia, but was mustered out in 1863 owing to an affection of his throat. In his early manhood he was married to Miss Catherine Reitz, of Pennsylvania, who was known far and wide for her sweetness of disposition and her many other Christian virtues. She died during the Civil war; and he then married Mrs. Christine Mallory Kearns, of Ellenboro, who still survives at the age of seventy-five years. The daughters of the first marriage were Mrs. Rachel (R. S.) Blair, Mrs. Margaret (L. G.) Reitz, Mrs. Jane (Joab) Martin, all of whom have passed on; Ella, the wife of D. C. Tabler, of Parkersburg, is the daughter of the last marriage and Frankie, and A. S. Core, junior, the two other children of this union, died in childhood. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------