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Andrews, Mary Garard – Andros, Edmund

Andrews, Mary Garard

universalist minister, was born March 3, 1852, in Clarksburgh, Va. After five years of service in the free baptist church, she associated herself with the universalist church, and has been eminently successful in her pastorates in that denomination. She is well known as a temperance and Grand Army worker; and for two years was national chaplain of the Women's Relief Corps. In 1888 she was married to Mr. I. R. Andrews, a noted lawyer of Omaha, Neb.

Andrews, Maude Annulet

author, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1865. Mrs.

J. K. Ohl is one of the most noted writers of the south, and a successful journalist and poet.

Andrews, Newton Lloyd

college president, was born Aug. 14, 1841, in Fabius, N. Y. In 1865 he became adjunct professor of Latin in Colgate university, and in 1868 was elected professor of Greek language and literature, which position he still holds. On the death of President Dodge the charge of the college was committed to Prof. Andrews as acting presi. dent.

Andrews, Robert Lee

clergyman, journalist, was born. March 1, 1867, in Yellow Hill, N. C. He is one of the most eminent clergymen of the missionary baptist church, and an impressive lecturer. He has been secretary of the Farmers' Alliance, and filled various other public positions of trust; and is also the editor and proprietor of The Times of Jefferson, N. C.

Andrews, Samuel James

clergyman, author, was born July 21, 1817, in Danbury, Conn. He is the brother of I.

W. Andrews, and an Irvingite clergyman of Hartford, Conn. He is the author of The Life of Our Lord upon Earth; and God's Revelations of Himself to Men.

Andrews, Sherlock J

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1801 in Wallingford, Conn. He graduated at Union college; settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1825, and practiced law. He was judge of the superior court of that state; and was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1841 to 1843. He died Feb. 11, 1880, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Andrews, Sidney

journalist, author, was born in 1837. He was a Boston journalist; and the author of The Art of Flying; and The South Since the War.

He died in 1880.

Andrews, Sumner A

soldier, merchant, educator, was born Dec. 29, 1844, in Johnson, Vt. For many years he was a successful merchant of Johnson; was a representative in the Vermont state legislature in 1884; has served as assistant judge of his county; and in 1889 was appointed superintendent of the Vermont Industrial school of Vergennes.

Andrews, Timothy Patrick

soldier, public official, was born in 1794, in Ireland. He fought in the battle of El Molino, and was brevetted a brigadiergeneral for gallantry at Chapultepec, Mexico. After the close of the war he was reinstated as paymaster, and subsequently became paymaster of the army. He died March 11, 1868, in Washington, D. C.

Andrews, W. H

merchant, state senator, was born Jan. 14, 1842, in Youngsville, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives; and was elected to the state senate in 1894.

Andrews, William Draper

inventor, was born May 23, 1818, in Grafton, Mass. He has received twenty-five United States and nine foreign patents on pumps, oscillating steam engines, boilers, friction and differential power gearing, siphon gang wells and attachments, balanced valves, safety elevators, and other similar inventions.

Andros, Edmund

colonial governor, was born Dec. 6, 1637, in Island of Guernsey. He was a governor of Connecticut, and in 1688 was made governor of all the English possessions on the mainland of America, and in 1692 royal governor of Virginia. He died Feb. 24, 1714.

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