ANDREWS, Ethan Allen, educator, b. in New Britain, Conn., 7 April, 1787; d. there, 4 March, 1858. He was graduated at Yale in 1810, studied law in Farinington, was admitted to the bar, and spent several years in practice. In 1822 he was ap- pointed professor of ancient languages in the uni- versity of Nortli Carolina at Chapel Hill. He re- turned in 1828 to teach ancient languages in the New Haven gymnasium, and a year later estab- lished the New Haven young ladies' institute. In 1833 he was called to Boston to succeed Jacob Abbott as principal of a young ladies' school, and also became senior editor of the " Religious Maga- zine," in which work he wa? associated with the Abbott brothers. In 1839 he returned to his native town and began the publication of his series of Latin text-books. These include " First Latin Book "; •' Latin Reader "; " Viri Romae "; " Latin Lessons "; " Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Gram- mar "; " Synopsis of Latin Grammar "; " Questions on the Latin Grammar "; " Latin Exercises "; " Key to Latin Exercises "; " Exercises in Latin Etymology "; " Caesar's Commentaries "; " Sal- lust "; " Ovid "; and " Latin Dictionary." His most important work was the " Latin-English Lexicon," which is a condensed translation, with alterations, of Dr. Wilhelm Freund's " Worterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache." He -was at work on a revised edition of this book at the time of his death, and it has since been published. For several years he was judge of probate, and in 1851 he was a mem- ber of the state legislature.
ANDREWS, George Leonard, soldier, b. in
Bridgewater, JMass., 31 Aug., 1828; d. in Brookline,
Mass., 4 April, 1899. He was graduated at the U. S.
military academy, superintended the erection of
fi'i-titications in Boston harljor, and was assistant
pnjfessor of engineering at West Point. Resigning
1 Sept., 1855, he was employed as a civil engineer
until the beginning of the civil war. He served as
lieutenant-colonel, and subsequently as colonel of
the 2d Massachusetts regiment in the Shenandoah
valley, and conducted the rear-guard in the retreat
at Cedar Mountain. He fought through Pope's
campaign, and was at Antietam. For distin-
guished bravery he was promoted brigadier-gen-
eral, 10 Nov., 1862, and in Banks's expedition led
a brigade. From July, 1863, to 13 Feb., 1865, he
commanded the Corps d'Afrique. For his services
at the capture of Mobile he was brevetted major-
general of volunteers, 26 March, 1865. On 8 April,
1867, he was appointed U. S. marshal for Massa-
chusetts, and on 27 Feb., 1871, went to West Point
as professor of the French language.
ANDREWS, John, clergyman, b. in Cecil co.,
Md., 4 April, 1746; d. in Philadelphia, 29 March,
1813. He was educated at the Philadelphia college,
and was ordained in London in February, 1767.
He left his parish in Queen Anne co., Md., on ac-
count of his loyalist sentiments, and taught a school
in Yorktown, laecame principal of the Philadelphia
Episcopal academy in 1785, and then professor of
moral philosophy m the university of Pennsyl-
vania, of which institution he was vice-provost un-
til December, 1810, and after that provost until his
death. He was author of " Elements of Logic."
ANDREWS, Joseph, engraver, b. in Hingham,
Mass., 17 Aug., 1806; d. there, 9 May, 1873. He
was apprenticed to Abel Bowen, a wood-engraver
of Boston, in 1821, and learned copper-plate en-
graving from Hoogland. He went into business
with his brother, a printer, at Lancaster, in 1827,
but in 1835 went to London and studied under
Joseph Goodyear. There he executed the plate of
"Annette de l'Arbre," alter West, and in Paris en-
graved the head of Franklin, painted by Duplessis.
In 1840 he visited Paris a second time, and en-
graved six portraits for the historical gallery at
Versailles, published under the auspices of Louis
Philippe. After that he went to Florence and be-
gan the plate of the " Duke of Urbino," after Titian.
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 scveial ideal scenes after representa-
tive Amei'ic.-m ])aint('rs.
ANDREWS, Loren, educator, b. in Ashland co.,
Ohio, 1 April, 1819; d. in Gambier, Ohio, 18 Sept.,
1861. He was educated at Kenyon college,
devoted himself to teaching, and the excellence of
the present common-school system of Ohio is
largely due to his labors. He filled various important
educational places until 1854, when he was
elected president of Kenyon college. During his
administration, the affairs of the college flourished
greatly; additions were made to the faculty, new
buildings were erected, and the number of students
increased from thirty to more than two hundred.
On the outbreak of the civil war, in 1861, President
Andrews raised a company in Knox co., of which
he was made captain. Later he was elected colonel
of the 4th Ohio volunteers, and, after service at
Camp Dennison, he was ordered to Virginia, He
was in the field a short time, where he was
subjected to fatiguing service, and was afterward
stationed in Oakland, remaining there until he was
taken home ill at the end of August, the severe
exposure having brought on an attack of camp fever,
from the effects of which he died a few weeks later.
ANDREWS, Lorrin, missionary, b. in East
Windsor, Conn., 29 April, 1795; d. in Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, 29 Sept., 1868. 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 Hawaii university, in
which he was a professor for ten years. He
translated a part of the Bible into Hawaii. Resigning
his connection with the American board, in 1840,
from anti-slavery scruples, he was for some time
seamen's chaplain at Lahaina. 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.
ANDREWS, Samuel James, clergyman, b. in
Danbury, Conn., 21 July, 1817. He was graduated
at Williams college in 1839, and became a lawyer.
Subsequently he was ordained in the Congregational
ministry, was afterward a tutor at Trinity
college, Hartford, and at last adopted the Irvingite
doctrines, and became, in 1868, a pastor of the
Catholic apostolic church in Hartford, Conn.
He published “The Life of Our Lord Upon Earth”
(New York, 1863).
ANDREWS, Sherlock James, jurist, b. in Wallingford, Conn., 17 Nov., 1801; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, 11 Feb., 1880. He was graduated at Union college in 1821, after which he continued his studies at Yale, where he followed the lectures on science as an assistant to Prof.
Silliman,
and also the lectures on law. In 1825 he removed to Ohio, and from that time devoted himself to the professionof law, and was constantly engaged in important
