Andrews, Robert Lee – Angell, James Burrill
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 G
merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1799, in Derby, Conn. He received an academic education; removed, with his father, to Rochester, N. Y., in 1816; was occupied chiefly in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits; and was for several years mayor of Rochester. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1831 and 1832 from Monroe county, N. Y.; was postmaster of Rochester; and was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress. He died in 1863 in Rochester, N. Y.
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, 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.
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, Wallace C
president of the New York Steam company. He was one of the promoters of the original Standard Oil Co.; was a director of the company for a long period of years and up to the formation of the trust, and is yet a large stockholder in the company. One of the most important of his enterprises is The New York Steam company, a concern which supplies steam for heat and power by underground pipes in various sections of New York city, and has initiated a new era in the management of office buildings, by enabling their proprietors to dispense with the annoyances attending the production of steam in their own premises. He is president of the company, and has managed its affairs with signal ability and success. He was lately president of The Standard Gas Light Co. of New York and is its largest stockholder.
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.
Andrews, William E
educator, congressman, was born near Oskaloosa, Iowa. He entered Simpson college, Indianola, Iowa, in 1874; was elected superintendent of the schools of Ringgold county, Iowa, in 1879; graduated from Parsons college, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1885; was a member of the faculty of Hastings (Neb.) college, 1885-93; elected vice-president of the college in 1889, and president of the Nebraska State Teachers' association in 1890. He was a member of the Nebraska republican state central committee, 1891-92; was private secretary to the Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, governor of Nebraska, 1893-94; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Andrews, Willis W
journalist, was born Jan. 10, 1868, in Portland, Mich.
After receiving his education he became a practical printer, and is now the president of the Muskegon Publishing company. He is president of the Typographical union, and has filled various other positions of honor.
ANDRIDGE ANDREW ADELBERT, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born July 20, 1863, in Hillsdale, Mich. He graduated in 1885 from the Chicago Theological seminary, and was ordained the same year. He has filled pastorates in Hawarden, Iowa: Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Sturgeon.
Bay, Wis.; and Columbia congregational church, Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of Wisconsin Church History, and has contributed extensively to religious periodicals.
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.
Andros, R. S. S
public official, author, was born in Berkeley, Mass. He edited several newspapers, was deputy collector in Boston for some years, and subsequently, as special agent of the treasury department, was engaged in reorganizing custom houses in the south. He was the author of the Customs Guide, a codification of the revenue laws; contributed poems to the Democratic Review, and published Chocoruna and Other Sketches. He died in August, 1868, in Berkeley, Mass.
Andros, Thomas
soldier, clergyman, was born May 1, 1759, in Norwich, Conn.
He joined the revolutionary army at the age of sixteen, and was in the battles of Long Island and White Plains. In 1781 he enlisted on a privateer in New London, but was captured and confined in the Jersey prison-ship in New York. A few months later he escaped, and on the restoration of his health studied theology with Dr. Benedict in Plainfield, Conn. He was ordained at Berkeley in 1788, and for forty-six years remained in the ministry.
He died Dec. 30, 1845, in Berkeley, Mass.
Andrus, Reuben
college president, clergyman, was born Jan. 29, 1829, in Watertown, N. J. He was principal of the Central academy of Springfield, Ill.; and president of a women's college in Jacksonville. After the war he reorganized Quincy (now Chaddock) college, Illinois; in 1867 went to Indiana, and was elected president of Asbury university in 1872.
He died Jan. 17, 1887, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Andrus, Wesley P
soldier, educator, state senator, was born Feb. 19, 1834, in Potter, N. Y. In 1861 he entered the forty-second Illinois volunteer infantry, and was soon commissioned first lieutenant; was promoted to a captaincy for meritorious service at Stone River.
He has been four years a member of the common council of Cedar Springs, Mich., and has been its mayor. In 1877 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state senate.
Andrus, William W
merchant, state senator, was born July 24, 1821, in Wyoming county, N. Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1867; was assessor of internal revenue under Grant; and in 1881-82 served as a member of the Michigan state senate.
Angel, William G
congressman, was born in New Shoreham, R. I. He was elected a representative in congress from Burlington, N. Y., from 1825 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1833.
Angell, George T
philanthropist, author, was born June 5, 1823, in Southbridge, Mass. He is the president of the American Humane Education society; the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; and the Pre-Parent American Band of Mercy. He graduated from Dartmouth college in 1846 and from the Harvard university Law school in 1851. He founded the Massachusetts society in 1868, and established a magazine entitled Our Dumb Animals. Since that time he has given his time and energy to the protection of dumb animals, establishing twenty thousand branches of The American Band of Mercy, and The American Humane Education society, in behalf of which he has employed missionaries to found humane societies in the south and west, and has caused the circulation of some two million copies of the book Black Beauty, and also of hundreds of thousands of copies of other humane prize stories and publications.
Angell, Henry Clay
educator, author, was born Jan. 27, 1829, in Providence, R. I. He is a professor of ophthalmology in Boston university; and the author of Diseases of the Eye; How to Take Care of Our Eyes; and Records of W. M.
Hunt.
Angell, James Burrill
educator, college president, diplomatist, was born Jan. 7, 1829, in Scituate, R. I. He graduated from the Brown university in 1849; and during 1855-60 filled the chair of modern languages in that institution. In 1866 he became president of the university of Vermont; and since 1871 has been president of the university of Michigan.
He has served as United States minister to China; and in 1897 was appointed United States minister to Turkey. He is the author of Manual of French Literature; and Progress in International Law.