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1863. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Amherst and from Harvard in 1861. See "Men of Our Times," by Harriet Beecher Stowe; "Memoir with Personal Reminiscences," by P. W. Chandler; and "Discourse," by the Rev. Elias Nason. His son John Forrester Andrew (1850-'95) was a representative in congress 1889-'93. Governor Andrew died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 30, 1867.
ANDREWS, Allen S., educator, was born in Randolph county, N. C. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Allen S. was born near Fuller's Ford, N. C., the oldest of nine children. He was reared a farmer's boy, accustomed to active life on a plantation. In his early manhood he was a Methodist preacher connected with the North Carolina annual conference. He was elected to the professorship of English literature in the Greensboro female college, and at the end of his first year was elected professor of English in Trinity college. N. C., where he completed his education and was graduated in 1854. In the autumn of 1854, he was transferred to the Alabama annual conference, and took charge of the collegiate institute at Glenville, Ala. In 1837 he resigned from that institution and returned to the active work of the ministry. He was president of the Southern university 1871-'75, and 1883, and served the itinerant ministry, 1875-'82. He received the degree D.D. from Southern university in 1870, and LL.D. from that and from the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Auburn, Ala., in 1886. He was a member of the first œcumenical conference of Methodism in London, in 1880, and of several general conferences of the church. He died at Union Springs, Ala., Dec. 4, 1898.
ANDREWS, Charles, jurist, was born at Whitestown, N.Y., May 27, 1827; son of George and Polly (Walker) Andrews; grandson of Nathaniel Andrews and of Stephen Walker; and a descendant of John and Mary Andrews, who settled in Farmington, Conn., about 1640; and of "Widow" Walker of Rehoboth, Mass., one of the first purchasers and proprietors of the town in 1643. He attended Cazenovia seminary, N.Y.; studied law in Syracuse, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He was district attorney of Onondaga county, 1853-'56: mayor of Syracuse, in 1861, 1862 and 1868, and was a delegate-at-large at the state constitutional convention of 1867. He was an associate judge of the court of appeals of New York, 1870-'81, and 1884-'93, and chief justice of the same, 1881-'84 and 1893-'97, when he was retired. He married, May 17, 1855, Marcia A. Skankland of Syracuse. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton college in 1877, from Columbia college in 1887 and from Yale university in 1898.
ANDREWS, Charles Bartlett, governor of Connecticut, was born in Sunderland, Mass., Nov. 4, 1834, son of Erastus and Almira (Bartlett) Andrews, and a descendant of Williams Andrews of Hartford, Conn. Charles was graduated at Amherst in 1858; removed to Connecticut; was State senator, 1868-'69; a representative in the legislature in 1878, governor of Connecticut, 1879-'81; judge of the superior court in 1882, and chief justice of the supreme court of errors, 1890-1901. He received the degree of LL.D. from Connecticut Wesleyan university, 1879, from Yale in 1895. He died in Litchfield, Conn., Sept. 12, 1902.
ANDREWS, Christopher Columbus, statesman, was born in Hillsborough, N. H., Oct. 27, 1829. He was educated in a country academy, studied law, and practised his profession in Newton and in Boston, Mass., until 1854. He then removed to Kansas, and afterward to Minnesota. He became locally prominent in politics, and was chosen state senator of Minnesota in 1859. Though he opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, he was an ardent supporter of his administration, and he enlisted as a private in a Minnesota regiment. He served throughout the war with bravery and honor, and in March, 1865, was brevetted major-general. From 1869 to 1877 he was minister to Norway and Sweden, under appointment by President Grant, in 1880 was appointed supervisor of the United States census in the district of Minnesota, and in 1882 President Arthur appointed him consul-general to Brazil. Among his published works are: "Minnesota and Dakota" (1856); "Practical Treatise on the Revenue Laws of the United States" (1858); "Hints to Company Officers on their Military Duties" (1863); and a "Digest of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the United States" (1867); and "Brazil, Its Conditions and Prospects."
ANDREWS, Clement Walker, librarian, was born at Salem, Mass., Jan. 13, 1858. He was educated at the Boston Latin school and Harvard college, from which latter institution he received in 1879 the degree of A.B., and in 1880 that of A.M. He was instructor in organic chemistry at the Massachusetts institute of technology from 1883 to 1892, and librarian of the institute from 1889 to 1895. In September, 1895, he removed to Chicago to accept the office of librarian in the John Crerar library of that city, where he introduced a library system similar to the one he had organized at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
ANDREWS, Edmund, surgeon, was born in Putney, Vt., April 22, 1824. After his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1849 he took up the study of medicine, receiving the degrees of M.D. and A.M. in 1852. From 1851 to 1853 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the university, and in 1853-'54 was also assistant lecturer on
