Lancaster County NeArchives Biographies.....Andrews, Kenneth Rae 1872 - 
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Luther Gilbert Andrews

Luther Gilbert Andrews, insurance executive and musician, was born at Omaha,
February 13, 1899, son of Orville Alexander and Jessie (Gilbert) Andrews,
Orville A. Andrews was born at Troy Grove, Illinois, November 17, 1870, and is
founder and first president of the American States Life Insurance Company. An
active worker in many Masonic bodies, he is past master of Lincoln Lodge No. 19,
A. F. & A. M. 1916-17; grand master of Masons in Nebraska, A. F. & A. M.
1930-31, and associate patron Electa Chapter No. 8, O. E. S., 1931. His ancestry
is Scotch-Irish, the family coming to America in 1638.

Jessie Gilbert Andrews was born at Emington, Illinois, September 19, 1872, and
is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, past president of the
Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and past matron of Electa Chapter
No. 8, Order of Eastern Star. She is descended from the Quaker families of
Whitaker and Reeder and the Pennsylvania Dutch Hateman family.

Mr. Andrews was graduated from Lincoln High School in 1917, and received his
A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1924. He was a member of the University
Band, the Vikings, Acacia Fraternity, Gamma Lambda, and is past president of
Acacia Alumni Association. At the present time be is president of the American
Indemnity Company and secretary of the Andrews Insurance Agency. A member of the
Lincoln Musicians Association, local No. 462, of the American Federation of
Musicians, he served as its president in 1924 and 1925 and member of its board
of directors 1923, 1930 and 1931. He has played many musical engagements,
including first horn in the following: Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln
Symphony, Nebraska State Band, Lincoln Municipal Band, Stuart Symphony; Strand,
Rialto and Brandeis Theatres, Omaha, Rialto and Lincoln Theatres, Lincoln. He
was one of the organizers of the Lincoln Symphony, and has served as member of
the board of directors, member of the board of personnel and member of the
orchestra.

During the World War he was a member of the I. C. O. T. S. at Camp Grant,
Illinois; in 1923 he was manager of the American Legion Band at Lincoln and
attended the Paris Convention in 1927 with Monohan Post, Sioux City, Iowa. He is
a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church and the Nebraskana Society.

Mr. Andrews was married to Helen Leona Clark at Omaha, on November 19, 1921. She
was born at Omaha, April 15th, 1899, descended from the English family of Clark,
the Pennsylvania Dutch family of Fink and the Scotch-Irish family of McConnell.
Their daughter, Jacqueline, was born July 13, 1926. Residence: Lincoln.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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