Andrews, Elisha – Andrews, Newton Lloyd
Andrews, Elisha
clergyman, au-general and brevet major-general of the thor, was born Sept. 29, 1768, in Middletown, Conn. He preached in various places in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and published, besides sermons and tracts, The Moral Tendencies of Universalism; Review of Winchester's Dialogues on Universal Restoration; and a Vindication of the Distinguishing Sentiments of the Baptists, and other works. He died Feb. 3, 1840.
Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
educator, college president, author, was born in 1844 in New Hampshire. He is a prominent educator and president of Brown university; and the author of Institutes of General History; Institutes of Economics; Brief Institutes of Our Economical History; An Honest Dollar; Eternal Words and Other Sermons; History of the United States; Wealth and Moral Law; and History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States.
Andrews, Eliza Francis
educator, botanist, author, was born Aug. 10, 1847, in Washington, Ga. Her father was Judge Garnett Andrews, an eminent jurist, and the author of Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer. She is the author of A Mere Adventurer; Prince Hal; A Family Secret; How He Was Tempted; and In the Pine Lands of Georgia; besides numerous character popular sketches, and several meritorious poems, the most notable of which is entitled Haunted. She has lectured on various subjects; is a fine linguist, and probably the most accomplished field botanist in the south.
Andrews, Ethan Allen
educator, author, was born April 7, 1787, in New Britain, Conn. He was an educator who was at one time professor of ancient languages in the university of North Carolina. Besides a Latin-English Dictionary, he published a valuable series of classical text-books. He died March 4, 1858, in New Britain, Conn.
Andrews, Francis Foote
legislator, was born March 12, 1828, in East Haven, Conn. He has filled numerous public offices of trust, and in 1897-98 was a member of the Connecticut state legislature.
Andrews, Frank De Witte
antiquarian, was born Aug. 1, 1847, in Southington, Conn. He settled in Vineland, N. J., and became interested in antiquarian pursuits. He has an extensive collection of autograph letters and documents, and a library of Americana. He is the secretary and librarian of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian society, and has written extensively on historical subjects and numismatics.
Andrews, Garnett
lawyer, author, was born May 15, 1837, in Washington, Ga.
He removed to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1882, where he has since remained, practicing his profession; and was elected mayor of Chattanooga in 1891. He is the author of Andrews' Digest of the Laws of Mississippi.
Andrews, George Arthur
clergyman, educator, author, was born May 22, 1870, in Springfield, Mass. He attended Colby university and the Andover Theological school, and became instructor in mathematics in the English high school of Worcester, Mass. He has prepared a book on Composite Geometrical Figures.
Andrews, George Leonard
soldier, educator, was born Aug. 31, 1828, in Bridgewater, Mass. In 1851 he graduated from the United States Military academy; served with distinction through the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadier- .
United States volunteers. For several years he was United States marshal for the district of Massachusetts; and was professor of modern languages in the United States Military academy.
Andrews, George R
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from the fourteenth congressional district in that state, from 1849 to 1851.
Andrews, Henry Franklin
soldier, lawyer, state senator, genealogist, was born June 27, 1844, in Lovell, Maine.
He served three years in the sixteenth infantry volunteers; was recorder of Audubon county, Iowa, in 1867-68; county judge in 1868; and state senator in 1892- 95. He has practiced law since 1869; and is the author of The Andrews Family; The Hamilton Family; and other works.
Andrews, Henry T
artist, state legislator, was born June 28, 1866, in Tarrytown, N. Y. He is a successful artist of New York city. In 1895 he was elected a member of the New York state assembly, and received the re-election in 1896, and again in 1897.
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, Lorrin
was born April 29, 1795, in East Windsor, Conn. He was educated at Jefferson college, Pa., and Princeton Theological seminary; sailed for the Hawaiian islands in November, 1827, and preached at Lahaina. In 1831 he established Lahainaluna seminary, which subsequently became the Hawaiian university, in which he was a professor for ten years. He translated a part of the Bible into Hawaii. In 1845 he was appointed judge under the Hawaiian government, and was also secretary of the privy council. These offices he held for ten years. He prepared a Hawaiian dictionary and several works on the literature and antiquities of the Hawaiians. He died Sept. 29, 1868, in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.
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.
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.