P. Henry Andre

As printed in 1905

P. HENRY ANDRE.,,,. r „ c

Shorthorn cattle, livmg m Yellow Spruigs

P. Henry Andre was born in Burtownship, was born in Washington county, lington, Iowa, June 21, 1860, son of P. A. Pa., Jan. 7, 1867, his parents being R. G.

Andre, and after leaving school learned and lary (McLaughlin) Robb. He is inlilUiuRAI'UKAL REriRU debtee! to the district-school system of Iowa for the greater part of the education he acquired, although for three years he was a student in the schools of Indiana. He was reared as a farm lad. and early took his place behind the plow, assisting his father in the various departments of farm labor until he began farming on his own account. In the fall of 1898 he purchased eighty and one-third acres of land from the heirs of Dr. Robinson, in Section 18, Range 3, west, and in 1903 he bought an adjoining eighty-acre tract on the north from the children of Theron Robinson. I'or this he paid a little more than ninety-four dollars per acre. He now has a beautiful place, well tiled, and im- ]irovcd with all modern conveniences. None of the accessories of a model farm of the twentieth century arc lacking, and lie takes just ])ri(le in the tine appearance of his place.

Mr. Robb has purchased to some extent imported Shorthorn cattle, but has never made exhibition of his stock but once, when in 1904 he exhibited a young calf at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, winning thereon a prize of eighty-two dollars. He has long been known as a breeder of Shorthorn cattle, and at this writing he has about thirty-five head of fine registered stock of that grade upon his place. He has held a number of sales, some of his stock bringing very high prices. On one occasion he sold a two-year-old heifer for ten hundred and thirty-five dollars. He now has two imjjorted cows upon his farm, one of which has given him a calf every ten months. 'Hie sales have netted him about four hundred dollars each. In addition to tile raising of cattle,.Mr. Robb is also (quite extensively engaged in raising and feeding Poland China hogs.

The home life of Mr. Robb is very pleasant. He was married, Feb. 12, 1895, to Miss Anna E. McElhinney, a daughter of Robert A. and Margaret Jane (McGurkin ) McElhinney. She was born in Washington township, June 30, 1870, and there is one child by this marriage, Mary- Margaret, whose birth occurred Nov. 14, 1901. The parents are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. Mr. Robb has long resided in Iowa, and has witnessed many changes here. At the same time his business career has kept pace with the uniform growth, and he is to-day controlling extensive and profitable stock-raising interests, while his property is the visible evidence of his life of well-directed labor and business discernment.

As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.