Clarence L. Andrews

Background

Andrews, Clarence L. was born on October 19, 1862 in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. Son of Harrison and Arminda Eliza (Whippie) Andrews.

Education

Educated rural schools. Graduate in accounting, Business College Philomath, Oregon, 1883.

Career

Stock rancher, Oregon, 1883. Clerk of court, Morrow Company, Oregon, 1886-1890. Deputy auditor King County, Washington, 1890-1897.

Mountaineering with Abruzzi Expedition, 1897.

Deputy collector customs at Sitka, Skagway and Eagle, Alaska, 1897-1909. Special agent United States Interior Department and lecturer, Alaska-Yukon Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909.

Writer on Alaska-Yukon Magazine, 1910-1911. Newspaper work in Alaska, 1914-1916.

With Red Cross Supply Division, 1917-1919.

Statistical work Alaska bureau, Seattle Chamber of Commerce, 1919-1921. With Interior Department school and Reindeer Service in Alaska, 1923-1929. Literature work since 1930.

Successful leader in publicity fight to secure protection of Eskimo-owned reindeer herds, 1929-1945.

Editor public The Eskimo, a quarterly paper devoted to the cause of the Eskimo in Alaska.

Achievements

• Clarence L. Andrews has been listed as a notable writer, advocate. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member; Odd Fellow, Pioneers of Washington, Pioneers of Alaska, Pioneers of the Yukon, Artic Brotherhood. Club: Mountaineers (Seattle, Washington).

Connections

Married Annie Anderson, 1885 (died 1886). Married second, Ida Swaggart, 1889 (died June 3, 1903). Married 3d, Lillis G. Smith, 1913 (died 1932).

Children: Mable Clare (deceased), Vashti (deceased), Anne Clare (deceased).

Father:

Harrison Andrews

Mother:

Arminda Eliza (Whippie) Andrews

Spouse:

Ida Swaggart

Spouse:

Lillis G. Smith

Spouse:

Annie Anderson

child:

Anne Clare Andrews (deceased)

child:

Mable Clare Andrews (deceased)

child:

Vashti Andrews (deceased)