Sex: Male.
Birth: 1796 in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Death: BEF 1870 in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Family: Wife: Unknown - 1850.
Children: Cicelia Wade 1831 - . Wade 1820 - 1860.
Parents: Husband: Charles Wade 1760 - 1816.
Wife: Catharine 1775 - 1840.
Appears in Lancaster County censuses from 1820 to 1860, listed in either Mount Joy or Elizabethtown. 1830 census shows, besides Andrew and Mary, 1 boy age under 5, 1 boy age 15-20. Leading citizen of the area from a line of Catholic Elizabethtown Wades evidently going back to 1752. In 1860 census listed himself as 'Gentleman' with $5,000 real, $1,000 personal property assets.
Elected Burgess of Elizabethtown Township, 1831.
The Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company contemplated under their first charter the construction of a road between Lancaster and Portsmouth, at the mouth of the Swatara River, in Dauphin County. The charter was granted June 9, 1832, and construction of road commenced in 1834. On the 11th of March, 1835, an act was passed authorizing the company to extend their road to Harrisburg. There was much opposition to the construction of this road by friends of the State road; the company were unable to sell their stock, and the prospects of this road were dark and gloomy. On the 13th of December, 1833, a railroad meeting was held at the house of Maj. McLaughlin, in Elizabethtown. One of the elected delegates was Andrew Wade.
Principal member of the Elizabethtown Catholic congregation, St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, 1855. The church history says that Wades were present in the parish from as early as 1752:
Among the first Catholics who settled near Elizabethtown of whom we have certain knowledge were Henry Eckenroth and family, Conrad and Andrew Gross, George Witman, Peter and Anthony Youtz, John Kauffman, and others, who came here in or about the year 1752. Almost contemporaneous with these were the Eckels (now called Eagles), Allwines, Wades, Myers, Mastersons, Ovendorfs, Wilsons, and others. The first regular divine services were held in the house of Mr. Henry Eckenroth, and as most of the people were Germans, so the priests who at that time attended this mission were German missionaries, whose headquarters were with the Jesuit Fathers at Conewago, a station near Hanover, York Co., Pa. In or about the year 1768 a log church was erected near the present site of St. Peter's, and named St. Mary's of the Assumption. This building was in use until the year 1799, when the new stone church was ready for divine worship and called St. Peter's.
Change: 7 Oct 2006 Time: 19:26:42.