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Biographies
LEWIS W. ANDREWS
Lewis W. Andrews, a member of the Los Angeles bar, has made his home in this city since 1900. He was born I Vernon, Missouri, April 22, 19869, a son of Lindley and Elizabeth W. (Gorton) Andrews, who came to California and located at Santa Paula. After attending high school he entered the scientific department of the Northern Illinois Normal School at Dixon, Illinois, where he completed the course by graduation in 1887. Two years later he became a resident of California, where he has lived since a young man of twenty years. He studied law in the office of the Hon. B. T. Williams, judge of the superior court of Ventura county, California, and further pursued his law course with Andrews Brothers, well known attorneys of Norwalk, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in California on the 9th of October, 1894, and admitted to practice before the United States circuit and district courts in January, 1908, and before the United States supreme court in February, 1911. Entering upon the active work of the profession, he was associated with Hon. Thomas O. Toland from 1895 until 1900, when he removed to Los Angeles, where he has since maintained his law office. In all the passing years he has made steady advancement in his profession and his ability has brought him prominently to the front in his chosen calling. He is seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of a legal principle and his knowledge of the law is comprehensive and exact.
In 1892 Mr. Andrews married Miss Abbie Crane, who was born in Sharon, Medina county, Ohio, and came to California with her parents, George G. and Adeline (Huntley) Crane, in 1883 and settled in Santa Paula. George G. Crane came to California in 1875 and located in Marysville, where he joined two uncles, Benjamin and George G. Briggs. Of this union there have been born four children: Ellen Louise, who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume; Horace Crane, who married Helen Robinson and has a son, Horace, Jr.; Amy Violet, wife of Donald Whittier and the mother of Joanne, Mary Ellen and Patricia Whittier; and Lewis W. Andrews, Jr. With various club and public activities Mr. Andrews has been closely associated. He was the first secretary of Throop Polytechnic Institute (now California Institute of Technology) at Pasadena, California, and also served as instructor in history in that institution. He is a member of the California and Union League Clubs, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Country Club and Bel-Air Bay Beach Club, and he is popular in those circles where men of broad intelligence are met for the discussion of leading subjects and questions of the day.
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1-29-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 606-607,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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