When Edmund Andrews was born on 22 April 1824, in Southington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Elisha Deming Andrews, was 41 and his mother, Elizabeth Lathrop, was 35. He married Sarah Eliza Taylor on 13 April 1852, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 24 January 1904, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.