Guide to the Charles Thomas Andrews Papers,
1840-1922

Collection Number: 2180

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M. Warren
Date completed:
October 1986
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, May 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Charles Thomas Andrews papers, 1840-1922.
Collection Number:
2180
Creator:
Charles Thomas Andrews, 1842-1931.
Quantity:
2.2 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Scrapbooks, correspondence, broadsides, pamphlets, historical sketches, clippings, addresses, manuscripts, printed material.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Annotated scrapbooks include correspondence, broadsides, pamphlets, historical sketches, addresses, clippings, and editorials relating to his positions, and to Republican and Progressive Party politics, conditions in Cuba and Puerto Rico, education and welfare of New York Indians, and genealogical data on Andrews and Clark families. Also, correspondence, addresses, manuscript essays, school newspapers, and other printed items.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Charles T. Andrews was a teacher in Watkins Glen, Jacksonville, Reynoldsville, and North Hector, New York, and Owatonna, Minnesota, also an employee of newspapers in Watkins Glen and South Bend, Illinois; he later served as a school commissioner of Schuyler County; Seneca Falls school superintendent; agent of New York Secretary of State supervising absentee voting of soldiers in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1899; Inspector of State Schools, 1900-1904.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Annotated scrapbooks include correspondence, broadsides, pamphlets, historical sketches, addresses, clippings, and editorials relating to his positions, and to Republican and Progressive Party politics, conditions in Cuba and Puerto Rico, education and welfare of New York Indians, and genealogical data on Andrews and Clark families. Also, correspondence, addresses, manuscript essays, school newspapers, and other printed items.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Andrews, Charles Thomas, 1842-1931.
Andrews family.
Clark family.

Subjects:
Family--New York (State)
Education--New York (State)
Indians of North America--New York (State)
Journalism.

Places:
Cuba.
Puerto Rico.
New York (State)--Politics and government.

Form and Genre Terms:
Broadsides.
Genealogies.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Charles Thomas Andrews papers, #2180. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
1842
Letter to Mary Andrews from Uncle William's wife Elmina (Andrews), son Horace and daughter Maria
 Box 1 Folder 1
1854-1864
Legal documents - Andrews and others
 Box 1 Folder 2
1867-1878
Legal documents - Andrews and others
 Box 1 Folder 3
1864-1899
Andrews family letters
 Box 1 Folder 4
1900-1908
Andrews family letters
 Box 1 Folder 5
1909
Andrews family letters
 Box 1 Folder 6
1910-1915
Andrews family letters
 Box 1 Folder 7
1919-1926
Andrews family letters
 Box 1 Folder 8
n.d.
Andrews family letters
 Box 1 Folder 9
Jan. 15, 1879
Lulu Andrews' school literary paper, "The Evening Star"
 Box 1 Folder 10
1909, 1915, 1916
Poems written by Charles Andews for Mary
 Box 1 Folder 11
1892, 1893
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 1
Jan.-June 1894
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 2
July-Sept. 1894
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 3
Oct. 1894
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 4
Nov.-Dec. 1894
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 5
Jan.-Mar. 1895
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 6
Apr.-June 1895
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 7
Aug.-Sept. 1895
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 8
Oct.-Dec. 1895
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 9
Jan.-Apr. 1896
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 10
May-July 1896
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 11
Aug.-Oct. 1896
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 12
Nov.-Dec. 1896
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 13
Jan.-May 1897
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 14
June-Dec. 1897
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 15
Jan.-Apr. 1898
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 16
May-Sept. 1898
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 17
Oct.-Dec. 1898
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 18
Jan.-Mar. 1899
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 19
Apr.-May 1899
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 2 Folder 20
1900
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 1
1901-1902
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 2
Jan.-Aug. 1903
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 3
Sept.-Dec. 1903
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 4
Jan.-Apr. 1904
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 5
June-Dec. 1904
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 6
1905
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 7
1906-1907
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 8
1908
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 9
n.d., incomplete
Arthur Andrews letters
 Box 3 Folder 10
1906, 1908
Photographs of Arthur Andrews
 Box 3 Folder 11
Bosworth genealogy, 1738-1868
 Box 3 Folder 12
Clark family notes, 1809-1851
 Box 3 Folder 13
1854-1861
Charles Andrews: school essays as pupil in district school
 Box 3 Folder 14
1860
Essay on "The Soul" by C. Andrews
 Box 3 Folder 15
Nov. 3, 1860
Philoputhean Journal
 Box 3 Folder 16
Dec. 8, 1860
Philoputhean Journal
 Box 3 Folder 17
Dec. 12, 1860, Mar. 9, 1961
Philoputhean Journal
 Box 3 Folder 18
1864
"A Glance at Contemporaneous History," by C. Andrews
 Box 3 Folder 19
1866
Educational lecture at Owatonna, Minn. by C. Andrews
 Box 3 Folder 20
1872-1873
Partial index of the copies of the Watkins, NY Express bound in the cover "Charles T. Andrews Papers - Watkins Express"
Box 3 Folder 21
Arthur Andrews' letters printed in the Seneca County Courier (newsclippings)
Box 4 Folder 1-2
ca. 1897, 1898
Scrapbook pages of "Letters from the West"
 Box 4 Folder 3
ca. 1910
"Garden of Eden," by C. Andrews
 Box 4 Folder 4
ca. 1905
"True Lincoln Story" while on magazine, South Indiana
 Box 4 Folder 5
1914
"Golden Wedding" of Charles and Mary Andrews
 Box 4 Folder 6
1916
"Mother" (Mary Andrews' death) by C. Andrews
 Box 4 Folder 7
Miscellaneous writings by C. Andrews
 Box 4 Folder 8
1873-1879
C. Andrews: School Commissioners papers
 Box 5 Folder 1
1873-1875
C. Andrews: School Commissioners Record Book
 Box 5 Folder 2
1896
Mynderse Commencement Address by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 3
1897
Mynderse Commencement Address by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 4
1898
School address by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 5
1910
Mss. of school addresses - Plattsburg Normal
 Box 5 Folder 6
Apr. 11, 1895
"The Seneca County Courier," "Centennial of the Schools"
 Box 5 Folder 7
"Hector Township in the Military Tract - Then and Now" by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 8
"Hector - Then and Now" by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 9
"New Harmony - The Seed Bed of Modern Progress" by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 10
"Evolution of the Wheeled Vehicle"
 Box 5 Folder 11
Indian Orphan School
 Box 5 Folder 12
The Andrews Number Charts
 Box 5 Folder 13
Articles (newsclippings)
 Box 5 Folder 14
Andrews family clippings
 Box 5 Folder 15
Editorials possible for Eagle May by C. Andrews
 Box 5 Folder 16
Podunk
 Box 5 Folder 17
Schuyler County History
 Box 5 Folder 18
Alexander Hamilton Political Parties
 Box 5 Folder 20
Miscellaneous writings
 Box 5 Folder 21
Miscellaneous
 Box 5 Folder 22-23
Newsclippings
 Box 5 Folder 24
Volumes (all by Charles T. Andrews unless otherwise noted)
1864-1868
Watkins 1860 F F Minn.
 Box 6
1876-1879, 1873-1916
Watkins
 Box 6
1882-1918
Family and Friends Scrap Book
 Box 6
1899
Cuba and Porto Rico in 1899
 Box 6
1913, 1891, 1913-1922
South Bend, Indiana Scrap Book
 Box 7
1902-1911
Indians of New York State (scrapbook)
 Box 7
ca. 1916
Autobiographic Notes
 Box 7
1874-1881
Andrews Family Accounts
 Box 7
1864-1874
Andrews Family Accounts
 Box 7
1877 (1900-1905)
Charles T. Andrews Diary
 Box 7
1864-1874
Charles T. Andrews Diary
 Box 7
1896
Churches and Pastors of Seneca County, N.Y. compiled and published by Courier Printing Company, Seneca Falls, NY
Box 7
ca. 1904 (?)
"Grip's" Historical Sourvenir of Seneca Falls
Box 7
1836-
Richard Andrews Accounts
 Box 7
1935
The Two Orphans of Marrakech and Other Dramatic Spots, by David Dunham, inscribed by the author to Prof. and Mrs. Andrews
Box 7