Andrew Horsey
Original Photo
The original photo used as reference for the mural was photographed by an unknown photographer in1909.
Andrew Herman Horsey was born January 27, 1879, in Beaverton, Oregon. He was the son of Sarah Singer and Pleasant W. Horsey.
His family came to Seattle by way of a covered wagon and later to Skagit County on a sidewheel steamboat named George E. Star. He lived in LaConner until 1890 and then moved to a farm in Avon.
On March 21, 1901, he married Ida Leona Wiles and had a son, Raymond Horsey.
Mr. Horsey had a long career in Skagit County, he served as chief of Police at Anacortes, spent 21 years as field manager for Broder and McMillan Canning Co., and was superintendent of a road crew of 105 convicts sent to open the Chuckanut Road.
Andrew passed away on February 28, 1969 and is interred at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Mount Vernon, Washington.
