Husband Charles Edgar Andrews 1 2
Born: 22 Jun 1881 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 2 3
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Father: Firman Lafayette Andrews (1855-1927) 1 2
Mother: Agnes Blanche Craig ( - ) 1 2
Marriage: 13 Aug 1928 - New York City, NY 4
• Business: First National Bank: New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA.
• Residence: : New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA.
Wife Marjorie Eddinger 4
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General Notes: Husband - Charles Edgar Andrews
He received his preparatory education in the public schools of New Bethlehem, Clarion County, Pennsylvania, later attending the Cheltenham Military Academy. After graduating from that institution he matriculated at Harvard University, whence he was graduated in 1904, with the degree of B. A., with honor and honorable mention in economics. He became president of the Olean National Bank, Olean, New York; the Grange National Bank, Sligo, Pennsylvania, elected in 1912; and the Lincoln Investment Company, of New Bethlehem. He was vice-president of the First National Bank, of New Bethlehem; the C. E. Andrews Lumber Company; the Widnoon Coal Company, Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania; the Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle, West Virginia; and the Sewell Valley Railroad Company, of the same place. He was a director in the Andrews Real Estate Company, New Bethlehem; the Meadow River Coal and Land Company, Rainelle, West Virginia; and the Citizens' Water Company, New Bethlehem.
Mr. Andrews was one of the trustees of the Normal School at Clarion, these officials being appointed by the state. He was a Consistory and Chapter Mason and affiliated with the Knights Templar. He belonged to the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh; the Hamilton Country Club, Olean, New York, and the Delta Epsilon fraternity. He was a member of the Baptist church, and a Republican in politics. [GPHAV, 607]
He received his preliminary education in schools in his home vicinity of New Bethlehem, then became a student at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Harvard he excelled in economics and related studies, receiving honorable mention for his achievement along these lines at the time of his graduation, cum laude, as a Bachelor of Arts, in 1904. Within a year of his graduation there, he was engaged in banking in his home community of New Bethlehem, where advancement came rapidly until he became president of the First National Bank.
Mr. Andrews maintained the deepest interest in the physical planning of the bank along lines that would be practical and at the same time artistic. The bank's history dates back to 1872, and in the years following that time the institution occupied three buildings. The latest banking structure was a beautiful one, modeled after a traditional American "town meeting hall" of the Georgian Colonial period: as the bank's own literature characterized it, "a bit of old Independence Hall in Philadelphia, blended with numerous details inspired by the finest edifices of similar type in the Original Colonies." The Colonial type of structure was maintained throughout the bank, although the medium was, of course, modern structural steel, 107 tons of which were used for the bank's frame-work. The exterior of the edifice was of Georgian Colonial red brick, with white Vermont marble trim, and three shades of brick were skillfully blended in the creation of a pleasing mottled effect. "Herringbone" red brick side-walks were used along the two street fronts, with a ribbon of grass separating the walk from the walls of the bank on the longer frontage. At the intersection of the two walks a white post supported an ornamental hanging sign publishing the bank's name in Colonial style. The name, incidentally, appeared nowhere else on the building. A clock tower, 107 feet high, rose from the southeast corner of the building. The white marble entrance, surmounted by a classic urn, would have seemed familiar to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. In all four sides of the building, arched windows rose after the style of the window in Independence Hall's tower. The bank interior embraced every convenience and dignity of architecture. And the community was reminded of the bank in the chiming of its bell, weighing two thousand pounds, situated in the great clock tower, on the hour and half-hour. This "Memorial Bell," as it was called, dedicated on Armistice Day, 1929, bore on the inside rim the inscription: "This bell commemorates the patriotism, resolution and zeal of the men of this community who served our country during the World War, 1917-1919."
In addition to his connection with the First National Bank of New Bethlehem, of which he was president, Charles E. Andrews, Jr., was an officer of other enterprises. He was chairman of the board of the First National Bank of Rimersburg, as well as of the Sligo National Bank of Sligo; and chairman of the board of the Meadow River Lumber Company of Rainelle, West Virginia, which was one of the largest companies of its kind in the country. A Republican in politics, he belonged to the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, the Harvard Club of New York, and the Surf Club of Miami Beach, Florida. His religious affiliation was with the Baptist Church. One of his favorite hobbies was gardening, and he was particularly fond of the beautiful gardens that he created around his own home. He was justly proud, too, of the bank's garden. For, at the rear of the First National Bank Building, was a shrubbery and flower garden, surrounded by an old-fashioned garden fence of red brick and wood pickets painted white. From this enclosure was visible the "World Window" in the rear bank wall-a reproduction of a church window, more than a century old, in New Haven, Connecticut. [HNP, 578]