Thomas Truitt Andrews and Violet B. Polkinghorn

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Husband Thomas Truitt Andrews ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1887 - New Bethlehem, Clarion Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: William Marion Andrews (1858-1915) 4 5 6
         Mother: Melda E. Truitt (1860-      ) 1 4 7

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       Marriage: Nov 1918 8

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Wife Violet B. Polkinghorn ⁸

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Children

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1 M Tom Truitt Andrews, Jr. ⁸

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           Born: 21 Nov 1920 8
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2 F Ruth Marian Andrews ⁸

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           Born: 7 May 1923 8
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Truitt Andrews

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He received his preparatory education at the Kiskiminetas Springs Preparatory School. Later he became a student at Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, which he attended until 1911. In that year he became associated with the C. E. Andrews Sons Company, in New Bethlehem, his birthplace. Although he retained an interest in the lumber business, he devoted most of his attention in later years to the insurance business. The firm of Dempsey & Andrews, in which he was a partner, and which handled life insurance and all other forms of underwriting, was founded in New Bethlehem in 1916. Mr. Andrews' partner, I. F. Dempsey, who was its founder, purchased, on September first, that year, an old insurance business that had been left as a part of the W. S. Corbett estate. In 1916 Tom T. Andrews bought
the D. W. Gruver agency and combined it with Mr. Dempsey's agency, forming the Dempsey and Andrews business.
In addition to his work with this firm and with the Andrews lumber interests, Mr. Andrews was also active along a number of other business lines. He was a director of the First National Bank of New Bethlehem, of which his cousin, Charles E. Andrews, Jr., was president, as well as a fellow-director.
Mr. Andrews was a Republican in politics, a director of the Jefferson-Clarion County Automobile Association and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and Gamma Delta Psi college fraternities. In the Free and Accepted Masons he was affiliated with Coudersport Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, in which he held the thirty-second degree, and was an initiate in Syria Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (Pittsburgh).
Mr. Andrews was affiliated with the First Baptist Church.
In his spare time he enjoyed such hobbies as baseball, football, hunting and fishing.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 608.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 496, 577.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 496.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 438.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 607.

6 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 405, 496, 577.

7 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 405, 496.

8 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 497.