Photographs and negatives compiled by C. C. Andrews, Undated and 1889-1909.

Andrews, Christopher Columbus, 1829-1922

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Andrews was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, the son of a rural farmer. He attended school during the winter months until 1843 when he travelled to Boston. He attended the Francestown Academy, completed his education, and studied law in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1848. He passed his bar examination two years later and established a law practice in Newton, Massachusetts, where he served as a member of the city school board in 1851–1852. He briefly relocated to Boston in 1853, but left th...

Hoxsie, F. L.

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Schenck, Carl Alwin, 1868-1955

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Carl Alwin Schenck, founder of the first forestry school in the United States, Biltmore Forest School (1898-1913), was born in Darmstadt, Germany on March 25, 1868. Prior to the opening of the school at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, he studied forestry in Tubingen and Giessen Universities, receiving a Doctorate of Philosophy. In 1895, he was appointed forester of the Biltmore Estate. He returned to Germany to marry Adele Bopp in 1896, and settled in North Carolina, where he o...

Minnesota State Forestry Board

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Christopher Columbus Andrews was born October 27, 1829, in Hillsboro, New Hampshire. He attended Francetown Academy and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar before moving to St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1857. He served in the Union Army, Minnesota Infantry, Third Regiment during the Civil War, advancing from Captain to Major General. He was honorably mustered out on January 15, 1866. From 1869 through 1877, Andrews served as United States minister to both Sweden and Norway, a...

Herrell, A. B.

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