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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Andrews, Mrs. Gwendolen Foulke, author, 26, 1863, in Chester county. is the author of The Living Subs-

was born June Pa.

She

tance.

Andrews, Harvey T., lawyer, statesman, was born June 28, 1867, in Tarrytown, N.Y. In 1895 he was elected a member of the New York state assembly; and received the re-election in 1896 and again in 1897. In 18981903 he was assistant appraiser for the port

New

of

York. In 1902 he was a candidate

for congress.

Andrews, Henry C, educator, lawyer, banker, legislator, was born Oct. 19, 1845, in Nova Scotia. He was educated in the public

schools; and was subsequently admitted to the bar. In 1868-69 he was county superintendent of Ringgold county, Iowa; and in 1870-71 was clerk of the district and circuit courts of that county. In 1876-78 he was a member of the board of supervisors of Buffalo county. Neb.; and in 1887-88 served with distinction as a member of the Nebraska state legislature. For nearly a quarter of a century he was a member of the school board of Kearney, Neb.; and for the past fifteen years has been president of the City national

bank.

Andrews, Henry Franklin,

soldier, lawyer,

state senator, genealogist, was bom June 27, 1844, in Lovell, Maine. He served three years in the sixteenth regiment Maine infantry volunteers; served in the army of the Potomac; participated in the Maryland campaign in the fall of 1862; and was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Wilderness and Spottsylvania. In 1867-68 he was recorder of Audub-

on county, Iowa; was county judge in 1868; and was state senator in 1892-95. He has practiced law since 1869 in Exira, Iowa. He is the author of The Andrews Family; The Hamlin Family; and other works.

Andrews, Hiram Bertrand, author,

Maine. Mass.

civil engineer, Oct. 7, 1867, in Stetson, is a noted civil engineer of Boston, is the author of Handbook for

was

He He

bom

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university of Colorado his fine and valuable collection of California insects, consisting of over three thousand specimens of butterflies, moths, beetles, bugs and every known species to be found in Southern California.

Andrews, James J., soldier, federal spy, was born about 1829 in Hancock county, Va. As a blockade-runner he was an invaluable aid to the union. He attempted to capture a railway train in the heart of the confederacy, which had he succeeded in accomplishing would have changed the whole aspect of the war in the south and southwest. He however failed and was executed June 7, 1862.

Andrews, James

P.,

lawyer, author, was

born Oct. 33, 1854, in East Windsor, Conn. He practices law in Hartford, Conn.; has been special prosecuting attorney and is re;

porter of judicial decisions. He is the editor of the Connecticut Index Digest. Andrews, Jane, author, was born in 1833 in Massachusetts. Her books for children have long been pbpular. 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 in Newburyport, Mass. Andrews, John, clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1746, in Cecil county, Md. In 1785-1810 he was professor in the university of Pennsylvania; and was provost in 181013. He was the author of Elements of Logic. He died March 29, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Andrews, John Newman,

soldier,

Sept. 16, 1838, in Wilmington, Del.

was bom

He

served

through the civil war; and was brevetted captain, major and lieutenant-colonel. He served in the Indian country and also in the Spanish-American war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general United States volunteers. He died in 1903 in Wilmington, Del. Del.

Andrews, John T., congressman, was born North Reading, N.Y. In 1834-37 he served as sheriff of Steuben county, N.Y. In 1837-39 he was a representative from

Railway Engineers. Andrews, Israel Ward, educator, college president, author, poet, was born Jan. 3, 1815, in Danbury, Conn. He was president of

in 1816 in

the author of Manual of the Constitution of the United States. He died April 18, 1888, in Hartford, Conn. Andrews, James DeWitt, lawyer, author, was bom Feb. 22, 1856, in Sterling, 111. In 1891-1903 he practiced law in Chicago, HI.; and since 1903 in New York City. He is the author of Illinois Supreme Court Manual; Cooley's Blackstone; and Andrews' American

Andrews, John Van Cleve, lawyer, merchant, banker, was born May 5, 1842, near Dayton, Ohio. In 1861 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware. He has been a successful lawyer and merchant of Kansas City, Kan.; and is now president of

Street

Marietta college.

He was

Law. Andrews, James Ernest, journalist, biologentomologist, was bom Sept. 10, 1868, in Crawford county. Pa. He was educated in the state normal school; and at the state university of Colorado. He is a successful newspaper writer; and a noted scientist of San Bernardino, Cal. His specialty has been biology and entomology. He presented to the ist,

New York

to the twenty-fifth congress.

the Merchants' bank of that city. Andrews, Joseph, engraver, artist, 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 of Oliver Wolcott, John Q. Adams and Zaehary Taylor. He died May 9, 1873, in Hingham, Mass, Andrews, Mrs. Judith Walker, philanthropist, was born April 26, 1826, in Fryeburgh, Maine. Since 1876 she has been president of