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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY. Andrews, Philip, naval officer, was born about 1850 in New Jersey. In 1899 he was given the rank of lieutenant. In 1892-93 he was ordnance instructor in the navy yard at Washington, D.C.; and in 1900 was attached to the Wompatuck. Andrews, Sandal T., merchant, legislator, was born May 18, 1831, in Thomaaton, Conn. He was educated in the public schools of his native city. He is a successful furniture dealer of Thomaston, Conn.; for two years was selectman; and for three terms served as a representative in the Connecticut state legislature. He is a great grandson of William Andrews, who joined General Putnam's army to put down an Indian uprising on the shores of Lake Erie; and subsequently became second-lieutenant in the eighth Connecticut regiment at Valley Forge during the revolutionary war. Andrews, Robert Day, designer, architect,

bom March 5, 1857, in Hartford, Conn. In 1874 he graduated from the Hartford high school; in 1875-76 took a special course in architecture at the Massachusetts institute of technology; and in 1884 traveled abroad as a student. He is senior member of the iirm of Andrews, Jaques and Rantoul, prominent architects of Boston, Mass. He is a fellow of the American institute of architects; a member of the Boston society of architects; and in 1901 the honorary degree of M.A. was conferred upon him by Colorado college. He is a contributor to was

architectural

and

scientific journals.

Andrews, Samuel G., merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1799, in Derby, Conn. For several years he was mayor of Koches-

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Andrews, Stephen Pearl, journalist, aboliborn March 23, 1812,

tionist, author, was in Templeton, Mass.

He was the originator of phonographic reporting; and at one period was 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

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Andrews, Timothy Patrick, soldier, paymaster, was born in 1794 in Ireland. He fought in the battle of El Molino; and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry at Chapultepec, Mexico. After the close of the war he was reinstated as paymaster; and subsequently became paymaster of the United States army. He died March 11, 1868, in Washington, D.C. Andrews, W. S., lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 25, 1858, in Syracuse, N.Y. He received a thorough education; and graduated from Harvard university. He is one of the foremost lawyers in the state of New York. He has filled various high offices; and in 1899 became justice of the supreme court for the state of New York for term ending in 1913.

Andrews, Wallace C, president of the steam company. He was one of the promoters of the original Standard oil company, 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 im-

New York

a member of the New York legislature in 1831; and was postmaster of Rochester, N.Y. In 1857-59 he was a representative from New York to the thirty-fifth congress. He died in 1863 in Roch-

portant of his enterprises is the New York steam company, a, concern which supplies steam for heat and power by underground pipes; and of which he is president. He was for several years president of the Standard gas light company of New York City.

N.Y. Andrews, Samuel James, clergyman, author, was born July 21, 1817, in Danbury,

Andrews, William E., educator, congressman, was born near Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was

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state

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Conn. He was pastor of the congregational church in 1848; and then entered the ministry of the catholic and apostolic church of Hartford, Conn. He was the author of The Life of Our Lord upon Earth; God's Revelations of Himself to Men; Christianity and Anti-Christianity; and The Church and Its Organic Ministries. He died in 1906 in Hartford, Conn. Andrews, Sherlock J., lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1801, in Wallingford, Conn. He practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio and was judge of the superior court of Ohio. In 1841-43 he was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-seventh congress. He died Feb. 11, 1880, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Andrews, Sidney, journalist, author, was born in 1837. He was a journalist of Boston, Mass. He was the author of The Art of Flying; and The South Since the War. He died in 1880 in Boston, Mass.

member of the faculty of Hastings college of Nebraska in 1885-93; was 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 in 1891-92; and in 1893-94 was private secIn retary to the governor of Nebraska. a

1895-97 he was a representative from Nebraska to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican and was appointed auditor for the United States treasury department in

1897.

Andrews, William Given, educator, clergyman, theologian, author, was born Oct. 8, 1835, in Kent, Conn. In 1855 he graduated from the Marietta college of Ohio; and in ] 859-61 he attended Princeton theological seminary. He taught school for a number of years. In 1868-79 he was rector in New Haven, Conn.; and since 1881 has been rector of Christ church at Guilford, Conn. In