Deacon Alfred Andrews

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DEACON ALFRED ANDREWS, son of Captain Ezekiel Andrews and his first wife, Roxana Hinsdale, born at New Britain, Conn., October 16, 1797, was baptized October 30, 1803, by Reverend John Smalley, D. D.  He obtained a common school education in the south-west        district; spent the winter term of 1814-15 in the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Conn.; became a school teacher in November, 1815; a Sunday School teacher in the spring of 1816, and continued as such till 1867.

On December 16, 1818, he married CAROLINE BIRD HART, daughter of Abijah Hart of New Britain, who died of spotted fever August 22, 1823.  He married as his second wife, September 15, 1824, MARY LEE SHIPMAN, daughter of Joseph Shipman of New Britain.

Deacon Alfred Andrews' home was nearly opposite that of his father and grandfather on West Main Street, two miles west of the town, near the Quinnipiac River.  It was built in 1820.

He joined the First Church of New Britain, August 5, 1812; was appointed one of the standing church committee December 30, 1823, in place of Ensign Levi Andrews, resigned; was superintendent of the Sabbath school in 1826; and deacon of the church October 23, 1851.

He learned the wagon and carriage making business, and was extensively engaged in the manufacture of cast-iron ploughs, wagons and carriages, in the firm of A. & E. Andrews.  The business failed in 1837, having been burnt out.

Deacon Alfred Andrews was enlisted in common schools, Sunday schools and the temperance cause.  He was appointed secretary of the Sabbath School Union, for Wethersfield, Berlin, and vicinity, September 6, 1832, and resigned, September 4, 1866.  He was a zealous anti-slavery man, held public offices, and was employed in the settlement of estates.

He began his genealogical researches for the "Andrews Memorial" in 1855, but deferred it for the compilation of his "History of New Britain," which he began February, 1858, and finished and delivered the first copies December, 1867, and began the "Hart Memorial" in 1870, and carried on both at the same time.  Deacon Alfred Andrews was a member of the Connecticut Historical Society, and corresponding member of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

He died April 13, 1876, at his home in New Britain.  His second son, Deacon Cornelius Andrews, lived on the homestead.

Alfred married Caroline Bird Hart 16 Dec 1818. Caroline (daughter of Abijah Hart and Anna Hall) was born 15 Apr 1798, New York, New York Co., NY; died 22 Aug 1823. [Group Sheet]

Alfred married Mary Lee Shipman 15 Sep 1824. Mary (daughter of Joseph Shipman and Mary Lee) was born 14 Apr 1805; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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CAROLINE HART ANDREWS, daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his first wife, Caroline Bird Hart, born December 4, 1822, baptized February 9, 1823, died Tuesday, November 4, 1902, at 5 P. M., at Evanston, Ill., and was buried November 6.  She was the first child baptized in the (then) New North Church in New Britain, Conn.

She married, before Reverend S. D. Jewett, January 21, 1852, ELISHA BURT BRIDGMAN, born at Belchertown, Mass., August 21, 1823, died at Boston, Mass., January 12, 1898, son of Oliver Bridgman of Belchertown, and Betsey Cornwell, of Granville, Mass., his wife.  He was a farmer and mechanic. He was a farmer for several years at Belchertown on his father's old homestead, which he sold and then spent one year in merchandising at Plainville. He then removed to Easthampton, Mass., where he resided from 1869 to 1873, being engaged in the manufacture of wire goods.  Mrs. Bridgman was a member of the Congregational Church there. From 1873 to his death in 1898 he was a school furniture dealer in Boston, Mass.

He was a gentlemanly, intelligent man, with strict temperance and Republican principles, and by industry and frugality secured an honest living and had a competence.  His wife, before marriage, was a teacher. She was a woman of discrimination, intelligence, and decision of character.  They were Congregationalists.

After her husband's death she resided with her daughter, Mrs. James Lyman, at Middlefield, Conn., Schenectady, N. Y., and Evanston, Ill., at which latter place she died.  Her loss was keenly felt by her relatives and friends, who respected her for her many strong and excellent traits of character, her universal kindness, and generous breadth of thought.

Caroline married Elisha Burt Bridgman 21 Jan 1852. Elisha (son of Oliver Bridgman and Betsey Cornwell) was born 21 Aug 1823, Belchertown, Hampshire Co., MA; died 19 Jan 1898, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA. [Group Sheet]

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MARGARETTE ANDREWS, daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., August 30, 1826, baptized October 29, 1826, married before Rev.  E. B. Andrews, October 17, 1850, at her father's residence, MAJOR JAMES BURTIS MERWIN, born May 22, 1829, at Cairo, Green County, N. Y., son of Joseph Ruggles Merwin of Milford, Conn., and Emily Parker of Coventryville, N. Y., his wife. He was a member of the South Church of New Britain, in 1847.

She united with the First Congregational Church in 1841.

He became editor of various public journals, and an efficient, earnest public speaker in Illinois and Michigan.  It was in the former state that Mr. Merwin became intimately associated with Abraham Lincoln, afterwards President of the United States.  Mr. Merwin delivered a series of lectures on various themes in all the principal cities from Boston to San Francisco.  He was appointed September 12, 1861, Chaplin-at-large to the United States Army by President Lincoln.  He spent two years as chaplain at Washington, D. C., and in the army on the Potomac.  In May, 1863, he was made visiting chaplain to all the hospitals in the Department of the East.

In 1872, he bceame the editor and founder of the American Journal of Education at St. Louis, Mo.  He was elected President of the Western Publishing and School Furnishing Company, also located at St. Louis. More recently he has travelled throughout the West, lecturing on Shakespeare, on Abraham Lincoln, on education, and other topics.

Mrs. Merwin has been very active in church work, an earnest, competent and efficient teacher in the Sunday School.  Many who have found in her a mother and friend "rise up and call her blessed."  They have no children.

Margarette married Major James Burtis Merwin 17 Oct 1850, New Britain, Hartford Co., CT. James (son of Joseph Ruggles Merwin and Emily Parker) was born 22 May 1829, Cairo, Greene Co., NY; died Aft 1900. [Group Sheet]

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ELIZA SHIPMAN ANDREWS, daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., April 8, 1828, baptized in 1828, united with the First Congregational Church of New Britain, December 1, 1850.

She married September 18, 1850, before Reverend E. B. Andrews, then pastor of the First Church in New Britain, DEACON SIDNEY SMITH, of Milford and Plainville, Conn., born July 13, 1827, son of Sidney Smith of Milford, Conn., and Julia Ann Smith of Milford, his wife. He united with the Congregational Church in Milford in 1843.

He was a joiner and housebuilder by trade. In 1869 he was in merchandising at Leavenworth, Kan.  He was a deacon in Reverend Mr. Leggett's Church (in 1871, Reverend Mr. Kincaid's) in that city.  They resided several years in Plainville, Conn., where he, in company with Deacon Ward, was engaged in manufacturing doors, sashes, blinds, and carriage wheels.  Their factory burned, when he went into merchandising, but after two years removed to Kansas.  For a number of years he carried on the book and stationery business in Leavenworth, Kan., from whence he removed to Mishawaka, Ind., where he superintended the manufacture of school furniture for the firm of A. H. Andrews & Co.  In 1886 he removed to Niles, Mich., where he lived for a number of years before his death, and where his widow and her family now reside.

Sidney Smith died January 20, 1892, and was buried in Silver Brook Cemetery at Niles.  He was a genial, whole-hearted man and a devoted Christian.

Eliza married Deacon Sidney Smith 18 Sep 1850, New Britain, Hartford Co., CT. Sidney (son of Sidney Smith and Julia Ann Smith) was born 13 Jul 1827, of Plainville, ____, CT; died 20 Jan 1892, Niles, Berrien Co., MI; was buried Aft 20 Jan 1892, Silverbrook Cemetery - Niles, Berrien Co., MI. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Graduation: 1861; Amherst College

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REVEREND EDWIN NORTON ANDREWS, son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., September 1, 1832, baptized October 21, 1832, united with the First Congregational Church at New Britain, December 1, 1850.

He worked on his father's farm until he was about sixteen years of age, and at brass in Meriden, Conn., until he was about twenty-one. Having a natural taste for mechanism, he was pleasantly occupied at Meriden.  He attended church at West Meriden, then under the care of Rev. George W. Perkins, to whom he was much attached, and was hopefully converted under his ministry, and thus the foundation was laid for his usefulness in after life.  He prepared for college at Suffield, Conn., and Andover, Mass., and graduated at Amherst, Mass., in 1861.

He studied divinity at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and excels in music.  He preached his first sermon in the First Church at New Britain, August 9, 1863, and was ordained to the ministry, January 5, 1864.  He was commissioned as chaplain to the 2nd Regiment of Cavalry, of New Jersey, December 6, 1863, by the governor of that state.  He did service as chaplain to that regiment at and near Memphis, Tenn., until January 16, 1865, when he resigned.  He preached in South Canaan, Conn., two years, then went to Kansas City and supplied a Congregational Church one year, and built him a house there.

He spent a few months at St. Louis, when he married, April 29, 1869, at Hillsborough, Montgomery County, Ill., MARY ELIZA BERRY, born at Greenville, Ill., June 30, 1848, only child of Franklin Berry of Kentucky and his second wife, Mary Henderson Black, of the same state. She joined an Old School Presbyterian Church there in 1864.

In 1869 he was preaching to a Congregational Church in the City of Champaign, Ill., but left there in September of that year for Chicago, where he spent some years in aiding his brother's business, and in preaching.  He attended to the advertising of A. H. Andrews & Co., got out their many school furniture and supply circulars, and invented the name "Hyloplate" for the well-known blackboard.  Leaving this concern, he preached at Crystal Lake, Ill., Hartland, Ripon, Peshtigo and Woodworth, Wis., and afterwards removed to Chicago, Ill., having given up preaching.  He and his wife are now living with their daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Gibbes, in Columbia, So. Car.  While in Chicago Mr. Andrews wrote for religious papers, and became connected with the religious conferences at Chicago University.

Edwin married Mary Eliza Berry 29 Apr 1869, Hillsboro, Montgomery Co., IL. Mary (daughter of Franklin Berry and Mary Henderson Black) was born 30 Jun 1848, Greenville, Bond Co., IL; died Aft 1900. [Group Sheet]

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DEACON CORNELIUS ANDREWS, son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born November 1, 1834, at New Britain, Conn., was baptized May, 1835.

He married, June 25, 1862, ANN ELIZA ANDREWS, born January 19, 1836, at Wethersfield, Conn., daughter of Samuel J. Andrews, then of Wethersfield, and Chloe Ann Francis, his wife.  Mrs. Andrews died March 24, 1901.  She was a teacher before marriage.  She became a member of the First Congregational Church of New Britain, May 6, 1866.

Cornelius Andrews united with the same church April 8, 1854.  He is a farmer and mechanic, and has always resided on the old homestead, two miles west of New Britain, built in 1823 by his father.  He was also engaged quite extensively in making and selling school furniture.  Since the death of his father he has added considerably to the estate by purchase, until he now owns one of the finest farms in that part of Connecticut.  He is owner of the "Brookvale Herd of Jerseys," and before his wife's death carried on a creamery business, making butter and delivering it in New Britain, Conn.  His barns burned in 1897, but he erected a new barn across the road from the house, which combines all the latest improvements.  The electric road cuts through his property.  He has always been prominently connected with the First Congregational Church, being secretary for a time, and afterwards deacon.  He was a member of the Committee elected to superintend the erection of the monument to Elihu Burritt.  Mr. Andrews is a kind, conscientious and liberal man, respected by every one who knows him.

Cornelius married Ann Eliza Andrews 25 Jun 1862, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT. Ann (daughter of Samuel J. Andrews and Chloe Ann Francis) was born 19 Jan 1836, Wethersfield, Hartford Co., CT; died 24 Mar 1901, New Britain, Hartford Co., CT. [Group Sheet]

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ALFRED HINSDALE ANDREWS, son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born December 25, 1836, at New Britain, Conn., was baptized there June 1, 1837.

He married, February 6, 1872, at Milwaukee, Wis., ELLA CORNELIA MATSON, daughter of Deacon Newell Matson of Simsbury, Conn., and Milwaukee, Wis., and Flora Melissa Case, his wife.

He received a common school education, and worked on his father's farm until he was about sixteen years old, when he worked in Meriden, Conn., at mechanical business, and attended one term at the Connecticut Literary Institution in Suffield.  He went West as far as Chicago, Iowa, and Wisconsin, seeking a living, sometimes called seeking a fortune.  After some time of wandering, and passing through various changes and vicissitudes, he brought up at the Holbrook Apparatus Company, engaged in making and selling school furniture in Chicago, where he spent some eight years in their employ as a clerk and book-keeper, but not receiving a proper compensation for his services, he set up for himself, and by dint of hard labor and favoring circumstances he established an extensive business, both in the manufacture and sale of school and office furniture in Chicago, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., and Leavenworth, Kan., with a branch at Mishawaka, Ind. It is seldom that a young man, with no capital but head and hands, is so successful, which shows that he had an extra tact and talent for business operations.

Mr. Andrews is president of the A. H. Andrews Company of Chicago, the largest manufacturers of school and bank furniture in the world.  He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Congregational Club of Chicago.  He is a Congregationalist, and a Republican in polities.  He has never held a political office as his inclinations have been only towards business.  Mrs. Andrews is prominent in literary and society work; is a member of the Amateur Musical Club and the Woman's Club of Chicago, and has been a member of several art and literary clubs.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews lived until 1891 in Chicago.  Since that time they have resided at their country home at Ellynside, Lombard, Du Page County, Ill., where they have a large estate.  Mr. Andrews is a trustee of the First Congregational Church of Lombard, and a member of several church organizations.

Copy of a Biography of Alfred Hinsdale Andrews, written about 1890, typewritten, and found among old papers:

A. H. Andrews, who has achieved high position as an enterprising Chicago business man, is the third son of Alfred and Mary L. (Shipman) Andrews, both of sterling integrity and highly esteemed.  He was born in New Britain, Connecticut, December 25, 1836.  His grandfather on his father's side was an officer in the war of 1812.  His mother's father was a brass manufacturer, conducting that business for many years in New Britain. Deacon Alfred Andrews, the father of the subject of our sketch, was at one time an extensive manufacturer in wood, iron and leather.  Later in life, as a diversion, he turned his attention to literary pursuits, and prepared and published three large works, two of them genealogical, and all of them showing much labor and careful research.

Mr. Andrews attended the common, high and normal schools of his native town, and when sixteen years of age entered the Suffield Institute (Conn.).  When not in school, the youth spent his time on the farm at the old homestead, and devoted much attention to the study of mechanics.  In 1854, he became a travelling agent for the New York Independent and in that capacity visited Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. The West offered such advantages to young men of energy, that Mr. Andrews determined to settle at Beloit, in the last named state.  After a year's residence here, however, ill health suggested the advisability of his returning to his native state, and he left Beloit for his old home in Connecticut.  But his stay in the East was only temporary.  The West, with its broad field of enterprise, presented a tempting invitation to the young man, and in a short time he again turned his face toward the setting sun.  This time he located in Chicago and engaged in the school-furnishing business with the Holbrook School Apparatus Company.  He remained with this company eight years, when he formed a partnership with S. Bigelow, under the firm name of Andrews & Bigelow.  In a short time, however, the name of the firm was changed to A. H. Andrews & Co., which name it has borne ever since.

Since the spring of 1884, the firm has been a corporation, with Mr. A. H. Andrews as its president.  From the beginning the business of the house has been very prosperous, showing a high degree of business ability and integrity in its management.  The firm of Andrews & Bigelow had but four thousand dollars capital at its inception, and yet the first year it did a business of fifty thousand dollars.  To-day the company represents one of the most flourishing and useful manufacturing industries in Chicago, involving a capital of one million dollars, employing twelve hundred men and turning out annually two million dollars worth of goods.  It is very much the largest establishment of the kind in the country and perhaps in the world.

The company occupies elegant quarters in the Andrews building on Wabash Avenue, in which are the offices, the map-mounting rooms, sales rooms and shipping rooms for apparatus.  The company operates factories in Chicago and Buffalo, N. Y., the plant at each place occupying an entire square. It also maintains branch houses in New York and San Francisco, and agencies in all the important cities in the world.  While Mr. Andrews, as the head of the great house, has made his energy and personal abilities felt in every department of the business, and while much of the company's success has been the result of his own sterling qualities, his executive ability has been shown in no way more clearly than by his selection of men as business associates who are possessed of a diversity of talent, to which fact is to be attributed much of the prosperity of the house.  Like a competent general Mr. Andrews places the right man in the right place, and the details of a large and complicated business are managed harmoniously and efficiently.  Mr. Andrews is a gentleman of large sympathies and a fine sense of justice, which traits of character have also greatly aided his prosperity, for they have always assured the most friendly relations between him and his army of employes, as well as between him and the public at large.

Though Mr. Andrews has never held office or taken an active part in polities, he has always been a consistent Republican.

He is a regular attendant of the Plymouth Congregational Church, and has been almost continuously since he first came to Chicago, in 1857.  He was in full accord with the bold anti-slavery stand maintained by this Church before and during the War.

Mr. Andrews is spoken of by his relatives as very loyal and kind to his kindred, and ready to aid those not so successful in life as himself. Speaking of "success," however, in his, as in most cases, it has not come as mere good luck, but only through the closest application and remitting zeal.

Alfred married Ella Cornelia Matson 6 Feb 1872, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., WI. Ella (daughter of Deacon Newell Matson and Flora Melissa Case) died Aft 1905. [Group Sheet]

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HERBERT LEE ANDREWS, son of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, born at New Britain, Conn., June 6, 1844, was baptized October 6, 1844.  He lived with his parents, and obtained a common school education, with the addition of some two years in the High School of New Britain, and one year in the State Normal School, located at the same place.

When about nineteen years of age he went as helper to his brother, Alfred H., at Chicago.  After spending about one year there he went to Leavenworth, Kan., where he built up a business, which he sold to his brother-in-law, Sidney Smith, who pursues the same as one branch of his operations.  After spending some few months at St. Louis he returned to his brother, at Chicago, and entered, with much enthusiasm, into the manufacturing department of his company.  He has a natural taste for drawing and perspective, and a high admiration of the beauties of nature.  He has an inventive genius, and has obtained several valuable patents on school furniture and appliances.

He married EMMA SHAW CUTHBERT. They now live in Chicago.

Herbert — Emma Shaw Cuthbert. Emma died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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JANE LOUISA ANDREWS, daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews and his second wife, Mary Lee Shipman, was born at New Britain, August 10, 1847, and baptized June 1, 1848. She united with the First Congregational Church in her native town, January 7, 1866.

She married, June 6, 1866, HONORABLE LYMAN ALLEN MILLS of Middlefield, Conn., Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut, born February 25, 1841, at Middlefield, son of Reverend Charles Lewis Mills of Boston, Mass., and his first wife, Elizabeth Lyman, daughter of Deacon William Lyman of Middlefield, Conn.  Mr. Mills has a farm and residence pleasantly located near David Lyman's and the railroad depot at Middlefield, and owns one of the finest herds of "Jerseys" in Connecticut.  He is president of the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, and has other manufacturing and farming interests.  He was Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut when Mr. Lounsberry was Governor.

From History of Middlesex County, Conn.:

"Hon. Lyman Allen Mills was born in Middlefield (then a part of Middletown), Middlesex County, Conn., February 25, 1841, the son of Rev. Charles Lewis Mills, a Congregational minister, a graduate of Yale College in the class of 1835, and Elizabeth Coe Lyman, daughter of William Lyman, of Middlefield, Conn.  He comes from old New England stock, descending through both his father and mother from Robert Coe, of the County of Suffolk, England, who emigrated to this country in 1634. Through his father he is descended from John and Priscilla Alden, of the "Mayflower" pilgrims (1620).  His mother, Elizabeth Coe Lyman, was a descendant of Thomas Welles, fourth governor of the Colony of Connecticut, who served in 1655 and 1658; and of Richard Lyman, who came to America from High Ongar, County of Essex, England, in 1631. Mr. Mills is nephew of the late David Lyman.

"In boyhood Lyman A. Mills attended the academies of Durham, Conn., and North Bridgewater, Mass., and early developed an aptitude for business and financial affairs.  He has devoted himself chiefly to manufacturing and to the care and management of various properties and estates, in which his great energy and native ability have won for him signal success.  A Republican in polities, Mr. Mills represented his town in the General Assembly of 1895, serving on the Committee on Finance.  In November, 1898, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Connecticut, by a handsome majority -- Middlesex County gave to him her largest vote given at that time upon the State ticket. Lieutenant-Governor Mills was an eminently successful presiding officer of the Senate.  His integrity and fidelity in every trust have gained for him an honorable reputation, and secured the confidence and respect of the people of his State.  He is president of the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation, a director of the American Wringer Company, a trustee of the Middletown Savings Bank, and president of the Levi E. Coe Library Association, and holds other positions of trust and responsibility.  He has been identified with the Congregational Church in Middlefield, and interested in its management for forty years.  On June 6, 1866, Mr. Mills married Jane Louisa, daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews, of New Britain, Conn., the author of the 'Andrews Family Genealogy,' 'Stephen Hart and his Descendants,' and the 'History of New Britain.'  Mrs. Mills traces her lineage to the emigrant ancestors Thomas Hooker; Thomas Welles, fourth governor of the Connecticut Colony; William Leete, seventh governor of the Connecticut Colony, and Capt. Thomas Willet, one of the Plymouth Pilgrims, who became the first mayor of New York."

Jane married Lt. Gov. Lyman Allen Mills 7 Jan 1866. Lyman (son of Rev. Charles Lewis Mills and Elizabeth Coe Lyman) was born 25 Feb 1841, Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT; died Aft 1905. [Group Sheet]

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ANNA JULIA BRIDGMAN, daughter of Elisha Burt Bridgman and Caroline Hart Andrews, his wife, born at Belchertown, Mass., July 9, 1857, married at Middlefield, Conn., June 6, 1891, JAMES LYMAN, born at Middlefield, September 1, 1862, son of David Lyman and Catherine Elizabeth Hart, his wife.

Mrs. Lyman was a teacher before marriage; Director of Physical Culture in Rockford College, Rockford, Ill., 1886-90, and Director of Physical Culture at Vassar College 1890-1.

Mr. Lyman is a graduate of Yale University with degree Ph. B., and Cornell University with degrees M. E. and M. M. E.  He is an Electrical Engineer.

They resided at Middlefield until 1895; Schenectady, N. Y., until September, 1899; Chicago, Ill., in 1900; and since then have made their home in Evanston, Ill. They are Congregationalists, and Mr. Lyman is Deacon in the First Congregational Church of Evanston.  He is a republican in politics.  He is Engineer of the Western District of the General Electric Company and is considered one of the most competent men in his field.  He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Institute of Electrical Engineers; American Electro Chemical Society; American Society for Advancement of Science; and the Union League Club of Chicago.  He is a member of the Congregational Club of Chicago; Director Chicago City Missionary Society; is a Sunday School teacher, and his influence in church and social life has been widely felt wherever he has located.

Anna married Deacon James Lyman 6 Jun 1891, Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT. James (son of David Lyman and Catherine Elizabeth Hart) was born 1 Sep 1862, Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT; died Aft 1905. [Group Sheet]

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WALTER SYDNEY SMITH, son of Sydney Smith and Eliza Shipman Andrews, his wife, was born September 7, 1851, at Plainville, Conn.  He removed with his father to Leavenworth, Kan., and together with his father was engaged in the book and stationery business in that city.

He married at Mishawaka, Ind., November 21, 1883, IDA SANDILANDS, daughter of Charles Sandilands who was the son of Richard Sandilands and Margaret Cox of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Armilda Quigg, his wife, who was the daughter of Henry Quigg and Amanda Ireland.  Mrs. Ida Smith died on January 31, 1887, at Niles, Mich., and was buried in Mishawaka, Ind.  She was a devoted Christian character and every one who knew her loved her.

Walter S. Smith now (1905) resides in Niles, Mich., with his mother and sister.  He is, and has been for the past five years, Supervisor of the third ward of Niles, and is by profession a nurse.

Walter married Ida Sandilands 21 Nov 1883, Mishawaka, St. Joseph Co., IN. Ida (daughter of Charles Sandilands and Armilda Quigg) died 31 Jan 1887, Niles, Berrien Co., MI; was buried Aft 31 Jan 1887, Mishawaka, St. Joseph Co., IN. [Group Sheet]

Alfred married Cora Houton 25 Dec 1893, Atwood, Rawlins Co., KS. Cora (daughter of A. E. Houton and Miss [--?--]) was born , Atwood, Rawlins Co., KS; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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ALFRED BURRITT ANDREWS, son of Reverend Edwin Norton Andrews and Mary Eliza Black, his wife, born at Chicago, Ill., November 26, 1871, was educated at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis.

Leaving this institution before he completed his course he entered an insurance office in Chicago, and from that went into architectural work. He was draughtsman and superintendent for several leading architectural firms of Chicago and was granted a license to practice as an architect in the State.  He did not take much advantage of this, however, and in 1901 joined Frederick Bulley in a co-partnership under the firm name of Bulley & Andrews, contractors, and embarked in the building business.  At this time he has a well established business in Chicago of high standing and has erected many well-known buildings in different parts of this country.

On June 9, 1901, he married JANE E. VAN ETTEN of St. Paul, daughter of Isaac Van Etten, a prominent lawyer and politician, and a descendant of the well-known Van Etten family of New York, and Jane Oakes, his wife. Mrs. Andrews is a woman of broad culture, having studied music and art at her home in New York City.  Later she spent several years in London and Paris under the world's masters.  She is widely traveled and is an accomplished linguist.

Alfred married Jane E. Van Etten 9 Jun 1901. Jane (daughter of Isaac Van Etten and Jane Oakes) was born , Saint Paul, Ramsey Co., MN; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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ETHEL DOLE ANDREWS, daughter of Reverend Edwin Norton Andrews and Mary Eliza Berry, his wife, born at Crystal Lake, Wis., January 13, 1875, was educated at Rockford Seminary, Rockford, Ill.

She devoted special attention to voice culture, and finishing her course in Rockford, took a post-graduate course in Boston, Mass. She then held the position of instructor in singing at the Woman's Presbyterian College at Columbia, So. Car.

She was married at the home of her uncle, Mr A. H. Andrews, Lombard, Ill., on Thanksgiving, November 29, 1900, by her father, Rev. E. N. Andrews, to DOCTOR ROBERT WALLER GIBBES of Columbia, So. Car., a well-known physician, and a leader in his profession in the State, son of Col. James Guigard Gibbes, a prominent civil engineer and politician, and Rhoda Elizabeth Waller, his wife.

Dr. Gibbes is surgeon for several railroads and corporations, and his private practice is extremely large. He has a pleasing personality which has contributed to his popularity in the medical profession.  No physician in South Carolina has a wider reputation or been more successful in his practice, which is quite remarkable for so young a man.  Mrs. Gibbes is an accomplished musician.  Her voice has a depth, tone, and charm, that thrills her hearers, rich and sympathetic.  She is also a sparkling conversationalist and correspondent, and has a sweet, unassuming personality that attracts every one to her.

Ethel married Dr. Robert Waller Gibbes 29 Nov 1900, Lombard, DuPage Co., IL. Robert (son of Col. James Guigard Gibbes and Rhoda Elizabeth Waller) was born , Columbia, Richland Co., SC; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Mary — Charles Rackard. Charles died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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BERTHA MATSON ANDREWS, daughter of Alfred Hinsdale Andrews and Ella Cornelia Matson, his wife, born at Chicago, Ill., June 8, 1874, was married, at Lombard, Ill., by her uncle, Reverend Charles Caverno, D. D., LL. D., July 29, 1903, to ARTHUR TENNEY HOLBROOK, S. B., M. D., of Milwaukee, Wis., son of Doctor Arthur Holbrook of Milwaukee and Josephine Tenney, his wife.

Mrs. Holbrook was educated at Rockford Seminary, Rockford, Ill., and Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo.  She is a graduate of the Chicago Kindergarten College, and was kindergarten instructor in the Chicago schools while taking her course at the college.  Upon her graduation she accepted a position as assistant instructor in the kindergarten course at the State Normal School at Los Angeles, Cal., assisting Miss Florence Lawson.  This position she filled for two years, resigning to take charge of the Kindergarten department at the Colorado State Normal School at Greeley, Colo., where she remained for three years and a half doing very creditable work.  She was elected President of the Colorado Kindergarten Association.  Mrs. Holbrook has a great deal of musical talent, is an excellent accompanist, and has a sweet, sympathetic voice.  Her musical proficiency has aided her materially in her kindergarten work.  She also possesses considerable dramatic and literary ability.  She has a charming personality, which endears her to hosts of friends wherever she goes.

Dr. Holbrook is a graduate of Harvard College, 1892, and of Rush Medical College, 1895, at Chicago, Ill., graduating at the head of his class at the latter institution.  He is now a practicing physician in Milwaukee, Wis., located in the Goldsmith Building.  Dr. Holbrook is President of the Harvard Club there, and member of a number of social and medical societies.  He is a popular and rising physician, and for a young man has one of the finest practices in his part of the state.

Bertha married Dr. Arthur Tenney Holbrook, M. D. 29 Jul 1903, Lombard, DuPage Co., IL. Arthur (son of Dr. Arthur Holbrook and Josephine Tenney) died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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HERBERT LEE MILLS, son of Lieutenant-Governor Lyman Allen Mills and Jane Louisa Andrews, his wife, born at Middlefield, Conn., February 26, 1866, was baptized October, 1868, by Reverend Spafford D. Jewett, former pastor of the Congregational Church at that place.

He was prepared for college at the Wilson Grammar School and Dr. Holbrook's Military College, at Briar Cliff, below Peekskill, N. Y. In 1887 he entered Yale College, where he remained one year, taking the academic course, being ranked throughout his stay in the first of the five divisions into which the students were organized. He has always been interested in athletics, and while in the preparatory school was a member of a base-ball nine and captain of a foot-ball team.  On leaving Yale in 1889, he became a clerk for the Orr & Lockett Hardware Company, the largest retailers in that line in Chicago, and later removed to New Britain, Conn., where he is established on North Main St. and has one of the largest stocks of hardware in the city. Mr. Mills is a progressive business man, and in politics is a Republican, but has never been actively interested in party management.

He married at Chicago, Ill., Aug. 31, 1892, BESSIE DELANO KENDALL, born at New York, Jan. 2, 1873, daughter of Joseph Kendall, born at Sterling, Mass., and Catherine Wellsman, his wife.

Herbert married Bessie Delano Kendall 31 Aug 1892, Chicago, Cook Co., IL. Bessie (daughter of Joseph Kendall and Catherine Wellsman) was born 2 Jan 1873, New York, New York Co., NY; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]