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HKRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

1899 he was instructor of doctrinal theology at the Berkeley divinity school. In 1873-80 he was secretary of the New Haven colony historical society; and is' president of the trustees of the state historical museum of Guilford, Conn. He is the author of published Addresses; and articles on American

Church History. Andrews, William

H., farmer, merchant,

railroad president, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1843, in Youngsville, Va.JIe engaged in farming, mercantile business and railroading, being president of the Santa Fe central railway company. He was chairman of the republican state committee of Pennsylvania in 1889 and 1890; was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania in 189598; and a member of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania in 1899-1903. He was a member of the territorial council of New Mexico in 1903-05. In 1905-11 he was a representative to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses from New Mexico as a republican.

Andrews, William H., lawyer, was born April 18, 1849, in New Haven, Conn. He was educated at Hopkin's grammar school of his native city; and at various other schools in New York. In 1869 he graduated from the

Columbia college law

school.. He is

now

one

of the foremost lawyers of Portland, Conn.

Andrews, WiUiam Loring, merchant, auwas born Sept. 9, 1837, in New York He is a successful merchant of New York City; and a director of the Continental insurance company. He is the author of A Trio of French Engravers; and Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War. Andrews, William Page, author, was born Nov. 32, 1848, in Pramingham, Mass. He is the author of Jones Very, a memoir; and Charles T. Brooks, a memoir. Andrews, William Shankland, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 35, 1858, in Syracuse, N.Y. In 1899 he became justice of the supreme court of the state of New York for the fifth district for term ending in 1913. Andrews, WiUis Phillips, physician, surgeon, proprietor, was born Aug. 34, 1838, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was educated in Cleveland, Ohio.; and graduated from the Cincinthor, City.

nati cine

college

of medi-

and surgery. He is physician and proprietor of Andrews magnetic mineral springs at The Park, St. Louis, Mich. During the past quarter of a century these mineral springs have become

widely known; and in 1888 at the Centennial exposition of the Ohio Valley and central states, held at Cincinnati, tic

Andrews magne-

mineral water was awarded the gold med-

al for excellence.

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 subsequently given the degree of Ph.D. by that institution of learning. He was ordained the same year; and has filled pastorates in Hawarden, Iowa; in Prairie du Chien, Wis.; in Sturgeon Bay, Wis.; and in the Columbia congregational church of Cincinnati, Ohio. For seven years he was registrar of the Miami conference of congregational churches. In 1900-04 he traveled extensively in Europe; studied in Heidelberg; and was a delegate to the World's christian endeavor union convention held in London in 1900. He is president of the National lumber company of Cincinnati, Ohio; is president of the Citizen's land and coal company; and manager of the European tour company. In 1899 he was retired with the rank of colonel in the division of the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky united boys brigade of America. He has delivered a college lecture course on Foreign Travel. He is the author of Wisconsin Church History.

Andres, Edmund, colonial governor, was born Dec. 6, 1637, in Island of Guernsey. He was a governor of Connecticut; in 1688 was made governor of all the English possessions on the mainland of America; and in 1692 royal governor of Virginia. In 1704-06 he was governor of the Island of Jersey; and subsequently he lived in London. He died Feb. 24, 1714, in London, England. Andres, R. S. S., journalist, author, was born in Berkeley, Mass. He was special agent of the treasury department; and engaged in reorganizing custom houses in the south. He was the author of The Customs Guide, a codification of the revenue laws; and published Chocoruna and Other Sketches. He died in August, 1868, in Berkeley, Mass. Andres, 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 prisonship in New York. He was subsequently for forty-six years in the ministry. He died Dec. 30, 1845, in Berkeley, Mass. Andrus, John Emery, educator, manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 1841, at Pleasantville. He was fitted for college at Charlotteville seminary of Schoharie county,

and graduated from the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn. He taught school in New Jersey for four years. He engaged in the manufacture of medicinal preparations; and is president of the New York pharmaceutical association and of the Palisade manufacturing company. He was elected mayor of Yonkers in 1903. In 1905-11 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat. N.Y.