The following biography was written by Amos Andrews' grandson, Amos H. Andrews, Jr. (1871-1933).

"Amos, son of Nathaniel, was born in Connecticut. In the year 1810 or 1811 he, along with his brother Leman, emigrated to Ohio. They lived on the flats near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River for a short time. Amos then bought a forty acre parcel of land at what is now Euclid Avenue and E. 30th Street. This he sold for $100 thinking it was too wet and springy and too far away from the town to be worth much.

Amos and Leman enlisted as privates in Captain Parker's company, General Perkin's regiment, Ohio Militia, War of 1812. They fought under the command of Commodore Perry until peace was declared and they were honorably discharged.

After the war, while living alone on the land he had purchased in Burton township, he went to a neighbor's house, a Mrs. Spencer. While there he noticed a young woman who was helping Mrs. Spencer. He was attracted by her and tried to make her acquaintance, but she was shy and did not want to talk so he went home.

Soon he went to the Spencer place again. He found the young lady, whose name was Hopea Tanner, at the wash tubs out in the yard on a slat bench. He attempted to talk with her but she kept on with her washing and paid very little attention to Mr. Andrews. Mrs. Spencer, seeing how things were going, went up to the tubs and pushed them over with her foot and said, "Now I guess you will have time to talk to this nice young man".

They soon got acquainted and were married. They took a wedding trip of ten miles, using a horse and buggy loaned to them by a neighbor. This was the only buggy owned around there at this time.

After living on his farm a number of years and making considerable improvements he sold it and bought again in the same town two and a half miles northwest of Burton Square on a branch of the Cuyahoga River. He lived there for a few years when he again sold and bought in the township of Newbury. Later on, he settled on land he had purchased in the town [township] of Indianfields, Tuscola, Michigan. In the summer of the same year in the month of August he went back to Ohio on business and was taken sick with dysentery at the home of his daughter Mary McNish. He died August 31, 1853 and was buried in Burton at Pleasant Hill Cemetery."