Andrews, Ruth Horn

Teacher and author Ruth Horn Andrews was born in 1893 in Jasper, Tennessee. Her father, Dr. Paul Whitfield Horn, was the first president of Texas Technological College. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees from Texas Technological College where she taught English (1933-1943). In 1943, she married Joseph Andrews and moved to New York City where she taught at New York University. She published The First Thirty Years: a History of Texas Technological College, 1925-1955 in 1956. Ruth Andrews died in 1986 in New York.

From the guide to the Ruth Horn Andrews Papers, S28. 1., 1878-1979 and undated, (Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University)