The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Clement Walker

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.