Joshua Andrews

Brief Life History of Joshua

When Joshua Andrews was born in 1879, in Connecticut, United States, his father, Chester Alden Andrews, was 48 and his mother, Ruth Amy Studley, was 43. He lived in Cornwall, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 16 March 1896, in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 17, and was buried in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.

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Family Time Line

Chester Alden Andrews
1831–1906
Ruth Amy Studley
1836–1917
Olive Andrews
1855–
Isabell Andrews
1856–1924
Addie Ann Andrews
1858–1940
Chester A Andrews
1859–
Willis F. Andrews
1861–1946
Albert Alden Andrews
1862–1943
Ernest Andrews
1866–1935
Martha Alvira Andrews
1868–1940
Cora Andrews
1870–1876
Frederick E Andrews
1872–1874
Lester G. Andrews
1876–1925
Chester Alden Andrews
1877–1946
Joshua Andrews
1879–1896
Florence C Andrews
1879–1951

Sources (2)

  • Joshua Andrews in household of Chester A Andrews, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Joshua Andrews, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

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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