Samuel Augustus Andrews

Brief Life History of Samuel Augustus

When Samuel Augustus Andrews was born in February 1843, in Oxford, Maine, United States, his father, John Andrews, was 40 and his mother, Harriet Frank, was 38. He had at least 6 sons and 1 daughter with Clara Frances Smith. He lived in Harrison, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1900 and Oxford, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1910. He died on 19 September 1918, at the age of 75.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Augustus Andrews
1843–1918
Clara Frances Smith
1854–1911
Amos Sewell Andrews
1871–1921
Eugene Howard Andrews
1873–
George Herbert Andrews
1874–1876
Harriet L Andrews
1877–1955
Guy Bertrand Andrews
1881–1966
Lewis Augustus Andrews
1886–1961
Edgar W Andrews
1888–1921

Sources (18)

  • Samuel Andreus, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Andrews, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
  • Samuel A Andrews, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition

"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .

History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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