Biography of Daniel Alfred Andrews, Cedar Key, Levy County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
III, page 179, 1923.

ANDREWS, DANIEL ALFRED, D. D. S., is one of the progressive business men contributed to Florida 
by the fine old Hoosier state, and he has achieved at Cedar Keys, Florida, a splendid work 
in developing the important industrial enterprise of the Standard Manufacturing Company, of 
which he is secretary, treasurer and general manager, his brother, Dr. GEORGE N. ANDREWS, 
being president of the corporation and both having retired from professional work to give 
active supervision to this prosperous and constantly expanding manufacturing business.

Doctor ANDREWS was born in the city of Muncie, Indiana, on the 18th of September, 1877, and 
is a son of JOHN E. and HANNAH E. (YINGLING) ANDREWS, the former of whom likewise was born 
at Muncie, where he still resides, at the age of seventy-three years (1922), and the latter 
had the distinction of being the first white child born in Delaware County, Indiana.  Dr. 
DANIEL H. and MARY E. (GILBERT) ANDREWS, grandparents of Doctor ANDREWS, removed from the State 
of New York to Indiana, where they became pioneer settlers in Delaware County and where they 
passed the remainder of their lives.  JOHN E. ANDREWS has been engaged in the flour milling 
business at Muncie, Indiana, for more than half a century and is one of the honored and 
influential citizens of his native city and county, his wife having passed away in 1907, and 
their children having been four in number, Doctor ANDREWS of this review, being the second 
child.  JOHN E. ANDREWS has long been a zealous member of the Universalist Church, as was 
also his wife.

After completing his studies in the Muncie High School, Dr. DANIEL A. ANDREWS entered the 
dental department of the University of Indiana, in which he was graduated as a member of the 
class of 1899 and with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, he having been dependent upon 
his own resources in defraying the expenses of his college course.  He engaged in the practice 
of his profession at Indianapolis, the capital city of his native state, and there built up 
a large and representative practice.  In the passing years he found opportunity to travel 
somewhat extensively, and while making a winter visit to Cedar Keys, Florida, he became 
financially interested in the Standard Manufacturing Company.  In December, 1910, he retired 
from his large and lucrative professional practice in Indianapolis, and established his 
permanent residence at Cedar Keys, in order to give his personal supervision to the affairs
of the Standard Manufacturing Company.  The concern was one of modest order when he became 
interested in the enterprise, and under his vigorous direction new and improved machinery 
has been installed in the manufacturing plant, which under his effective management has become 
the larger of the two manufactories of the kind in the United States.  The company makes 
leases of palmetto stumpage, utilizes only the young cabbage-palmetto, from which is derived 
the remarkable fibre used by this company in the manufacturing of various types of brooms 
and brushes.  Doctor ANDREWS has made the business an unqualified success, and devised ways
and means of handling the product and placing the same on the market.  In 1913 he invented 
and patented what is known as the Donax-whisk, in which is used the palmetto fibre, conceded 
to represent the acme of durability in the brush world and having a market value of many 
times that of broom corn.  The Doctor's inventions in the line include special types of brooms 
and brushes for automobiles, hats, etc., as well as a crumb or table brush.  The product is 
now handled by the largest and most important mercantile houses of the Union, including that 
of Marshall Field & Company, of Chicago, and Park & Tilford.  In addition to his alliance 
with this industrial corporation that is contributing much to the prestige of Cedar Keys and 
Levy County, Doctor ANDREWS has been vice president of the Cedar Key State Bank since the 
year 1916.  In a fundamental way he is a democrat in politics, but in local affairs he supports 
men and measures rather than being constrained by partisan lines.  He has served several 
terms as mayor of Cedar Keys, and has also been a member of the board of county commissioners.
He was the first president of the Cedar Keys Board of Trade and is now (1922) secretary of 
the recently organized Chamber of Commerce.  He was active in supporting local patriotic movements 
incidental to the World war, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, and he still retains 
membership in the University Club at Indianapolis, Indiana.

At Muncie, Indiana, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor ANDREWS to Miss MARGARETTE ROZELLE, 
and their one child, HELEN MARJORIE, has the remarkable distinction of being the only girl 
born in the ANDREWS family in a period of seventy-eight years.