Andrew Heron was born in Scotland. October 11, 1788. He first came to the United States (as he says in his application to become a citizen of this country in 1840) in the year 1807. He was nineteen years of age. He remained a while at Cambridge, New York, where he studied theology and was licensed to preach by the Associate church. For a number of years he acted as missionary, traveling on horseback through Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas, and preached to the congregations in those states. In 1818 he was settled in Rockbridge county, Virginia, where he remained thirteen years. During this time he acted for a while as professor of languages in Washington College at Lexington, the same over which General Lee presided at the time of his death. In 1831, he removed with a considerable part of his congregation, and formed what was known as the Caesarscreek congregation, near Jamestown, Greene county, Ohio. Here he remained until 1844, when he was displaced by the disruption in the Associate church. His next charge was in Indiana, where he remained, however, only a few years. Yielding to the infirmities of age, he returned to this county and became a resident of Cedarville. He received the degree of D. D. from Washington College, Virginia. In familiarity with the Scriptures he had few equals, and his retentive memory enabled him to quote scripture while preaching, with peculiar fitness. He was twice married. By his first wife he had one son, Rev. John Heron, who is yet (1900) living in Jamestown, Ohio. Dr. Andrew Heron died August 30, 1873, in his eighty-fifth year, and is buried in Woodland cemetery, Xenia, Ohio.
Source: Robinson's History of Green County, pg. 234 - 235
