ALEXANDER ANDERECK, one of the prominent farmers of Marion County, has a good estate located on section 29, Odin Township. He is a native of Licking County, Ohio, where his birth occurred April 4, 1824. His parents were Isaac and Martha (Mc Clelland) Andereck, the former of whom was the son of Jacob and Rebecca Andereck.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was born in Germany and came to America prior to the Revolutionary War. On arriving here he located in Virginia, where he operated as a tanner, which trade he had learned in the Old Country.
Isaac Andereck was born in Virginia, where he was given a good education, and when attaining mature years learned the trade of a tanner from his father. Later in life he removed to Licking County, Ohio, where he met and married Miss McClelland, by whom he became the father of six children, namely:
All are deceased except the first-named, most all of them dying in 1854, during the cholera scourge.
In 1829 the father of our subject emigrated with his family to Marion County and located in Odin Township, on the same section where his son is now residing. A few years later the land was opened up and Mr. Andereck entered three hundred and twenty acres from the Government. In that early day neighbors were few and far between and our subject had for his playmates the children of the Indians which inhabited the country.
Isaac Andereck gave some attention to farming, but spent the greater part of his time in stockraising, in which occupation he was more than ordinarily successful and accumulated a handsome property, so that at his decease, which occurred in 1851, he was enabled to provide handsomely for all his children. The mother of our subject passed away in 1854, aged seventy-four years. In his religious belief the elder Mr. Andereck was a Baptist, and in politics was a Jackson ian Democrat.
Alexander Andereck received a fair education in the subscription schools, and when attaining his majority settled on the forty-acre tract of land which had been given him by his father and where he still resides. He was married in 1846 to Miss Margaret, the daughter of Essex and Sarah (Gorman) Stanford, natives of South Carolina. Mrs. Andereck was born in Tennessee and accompanied her parents on their removal to Jefferson County in 1828. By her union with our subject eight children have been born, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are:
Mr. and Mrs. Andereck are devoted members of the Baptist Church, in which denomination our subject has been Treasurer for over forty years.
In politics he is an ardent Democrat and served his fellow-townsmen as Deputy Sheriff and Bailiff for sixteen years, and for twelve years was Constable.
Source: "Portrait and Biographical Record Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counties, Illinois"
Chapman Publishing Co, Chicago, 1894
Pages 352 - 353
Submitted by Sandy (Whalen) Bauer