Metcalf, Andrew W.

Born: 1828-08-06 Ohio

Died: 1903-09-24 Illinois

Flourished: Edwardsville, Illinois

Alternate name: Metcalfe

Andrew W. Metcalf, a lawyer and politician, attended Madison College in Ohio before studying the law in Cambridge, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and practiced law in Wisconsin and St. Louis before settling in Edwardsville, Illinois. In 1856, an accidental gun discharge took his left arm which may have led to his subsequent work within the Methodist church. Metcalf married Sarah A. Deneen in June 1858 and the couple had four children who survived to adulthood.

Andrew W. Metcalf supported the Whig Party and later became a Republican, supporting Abraham Lincoln. He was appointed state's attorney for St. Clair, Madison, and Bond counties in 1860. In 1864, Metcalf was nominated for the Illinois Senate. He therefore had to decline another nomination he earned as a candidate on the Union ticket for presidential elector for the Twelfth Congressional District in the 1864 Federal Election. Metcalf won the Senate seat and served in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth Illinois General Assembly sessions from 1864 to 1868.

U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Guernsey County, OH, 395; U.S. Census Office, Tenth Census of the United States (1880), Edwardsville, Madison County, IL, 46; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, St. Clair County, 22 June 1858, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; The Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 3 December 1856, 2:4; Illinois Daily State Journal (Springfield), 14 July 1864, 2:1, 3:2; W. T. Norton, Ed., Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois and Its People 1812 to 1912 (Chicago: Lewis, 1912), 1:682; Louis L. Emmerson, Ed., Blue Book of the State of Illinois, 1923-1924 (Springfield: Illinois State Journal, 1923), 685-86; Gravestone, Woodlawn Cemetery, Edwardsville, IL.