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Orville Alexander Andrews

A resident of Lincoln for more than thirty-eight years, Orville Alexander
Andrews was born at Troy Grove, Illinois, November 17, 1870, son of Luther
Ticknor and Anna Elizabeth (Smith) Andrews. Luther Andrews was born at Troy
Grove, August 6, 1847, and is still living. He was a pioneer farmer in Kansas,
of Scotch-English descent. His wife, Anna Elizabeth, was born at Hagerstown,
Maryland, March 3, 1849, and died at Hicksville, Long Island, New York, April
27, 1898. She was of Pennsylvania-Dutch descent, and was particularly active in
the work of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Orville Andrews attended the public schools of Clay County, and was graduated
from Clay Center High School (Kansas) in 1888. In 1891, he attended Kansas State
Normal School at Emporia, and held the highest first grade teacher’s certificate
in the county. Thereafter he taught school three years.

On September 25, 1895, he was married to Jessie Gilbert at Emington, Illinois.
Mrs. Andrews was born at Emington, on September 19, 1872, and is of Scotch
descent. She was matron of Electra chapter of the Order of Eastern Star at
Lincoln, in 1923. There are two sons, Luther G., born February 13, 1899, who
married Helen L. Clark; and Orville A. Jr., born January 29, 1904, who married
Vera Albers.

Mr. Andrews is a Republican. For twenty-five years he was associated with the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, in the traffic department; and for the
past thirteen years he has been in the managerial and executive field of the
insurance business. He is secretary and treasurer of the American Indemnity
Association at e present time. During the World War he was active in Liberty and
Victory loan drives, in the Red Cross and in the Red Cross and as member of the
Y. M. C. A. board. Affiliated with Westminister Presbyterian Church, he has been
ruling elder since 1918. He is a former member of the Kansas State Teachers
Association, and president of Clay County, Kansas Teachers' Association.

A Mason, he is past master of Lincoln Lodge No. 19, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, and past grand master of Grand Lodge of Nebraska, (1930-31). He is a
member of all the Masonic bodies and the Eastern Star.

His civic memberships include the Hiram International and the Chamber of
Commerce. He is a member of The Nebraskana Society. 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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