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Andrews, Stephen Pearl

author, was born March 22, 1812, in Templeton, Mass. He was an eccentric writer of New York city, the originator of phonographic reporting and at one period prominent as an abolitionist. Among his many and varied works are Basic Outline of Universalogy, in which he advocated the adoption of a universal language called Alwato; Discourses in Chinese; Comparison of Common Law with Roman, French, or Spanish Laws on Entails and Other Limited Property; and Love, Marriage and Divorce. He died May 21, 1886, in New York city.