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• 1789 Andrew Kirkpatrick born in Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvannia
• before 1814, married Ann Lefevre and moved to Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio
• by 1820, moved to Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, and operated a small earthenware pottery
• 1837 Cornwall took over the pottery and Andrew & Ann moved to Vermillionville, LaSalle County, in northern Illinois, with the remainder of the 13 children still at home
  Andrew took over a pottery started several years earlier by John Kirkpatrick (b. 1812 - d.), another of his sons
• 1839 Cornwall moved to Covington, Campbell County, Kentucky, married Rebecca and operated a pottery till 1848
• By 1849 Cornwalls wife had died and he moved to Point Pleasant, Clermont County
• 1849 Cornwall bought a pottery from Sarah Lakin and married Rebeccas sister Amy
  He bought the cabin in which Ulysses S. Grant had been born
• By 1850 the pottery was in full swing and prosperous
• 1851 the pottery was destroyed by fire, was rebuilt
• 1854 closed the Pt Pleasant pottery and established a pottery on Fulton Street in Cincinnati, which lasted till about 1856
• 1857 worked for a short time at the Fulton Pottery
• 1857 he built a three-story pottery (Mound City Pottery) for the production of stoneware in Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois
  His father Andrew and brother Wallace joined him
  The pottery was managed by a manufacturing company and through mismanagement of funds it became a finacial disaster, reducing Cornwall's personal estate to $150.00
• 1858(9) Andrew SR., Cornwall and Wallace moved to Anna from Mound City
• late 1859 fired their first ware
• 1876 exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial
• 1893 exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition
• to 1896 brothers Cornwall and Wallace operated the sucessful pottery in Anna