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Andrews, Israel Ward – Andrews, Marie Louise

Andrews, Israel Ward

college president, author, was born in 1815 in Connecticut. He was president of Marietta college. His only published work of importance is a Manual of the Constitution of the United States. He died in 1888.

Andrews, James R

lawyer, editor, was born Oct. 23, 1854, in East Windsor, Conn. In 1877 he received the degree of A. B. from Yale college; and two years later received the degree of LL. B. from the Yale law school. He has attained success in the profession of law at Hartford, Conn.; has been special prosecuting attorney; reporter of judicial decisions; and is the editor of the Connecticut Index Digest.

Andrews, Jane

author, was born in 1833 in Massachusetts. She was a writer of Newburyport, Mass., whose books for children have long been deservedly popular. She was the author of Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball that Floats in the Air; The Seven Little Sisters Prove Their Sisterhood; The Stories Mother Nature Told; Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now; and Only a Year and What It Brought. She died in 1887.

Andrews, John

clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1746, in Cecil county, Md. He taught a school in Yorktown; became principal of the Philadelphia Episcopal academy in 1785, and then professor of moral philosophy in the university of Pennsylvania, of which institution he was vice-provost until December, 1810, and after that provost until his death. He was the author of Elements of Logic. He died March 29, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Andrews, John T

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839.

Andrews, Joseph

engraver, was born Aug. 17, 1806, in Hingham, Mass.

His best known engravings made in America are from Stuart's head of Washington and Rothermel's Plymouth Rock in 1620.

He engraved portraits from paintings by Trumbull, G. P. A. Healy, and others, of Oliver Wolcott, John Q.

Adams, Zachary Taylor, Jared Sparks, Amos Lawrence, and James Graham, and several ideal scenes after representative American painters. He died March 9, 1873, in Hingham, Mass.

Andrews, Judith Walker

philanthropist, was born April 26, 1826, in Fryeburgh, Maine. Since 1863 she has resided in Boston, Mass.; was left a widow in 1869; and since 1876 has been president of the South Friendly society.

In 1886 she became president of the Woman's Auxiliary conference; and in 1889 became president of the National Alliance of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian Women; and has always taken an active part in various charitable organizations.

Andrews, Landaff W

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1803, in Fleming county, Ky. He graduated at Transylvania university in 1824; and commenced the practice of law in 1826.

He was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1834, and subsequently of the senate. In 1838 was elected a representative in congress, serving from 1839 to 1843.

Andrews, Loren

educator, college president, was born April 1, 1819, in Ashland county, Ohio. He filled various important educational places until 1854, when he was elected president of Kenyon college. On the outbreak of the civil war, in 1861, President Andrews raised a company in Knox county, of which he was made captain. He died Sept. 18, 1861, in Gambier, Ohio.

Andrews, Marie Louise

journalist, author, was born Oct. 31, 1849, in Bedford, Ind. She was the originator of the Western Association of Writers, and for many years was its secretary. She has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the leading newspapers and magazines; and is an effective public speaker.