From collection Member List
EDUCATION: Brother Andrews entered The University of Georgia in 1872. He was a member and treasurer of the Kappa Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Marshall was a member of The University of Georgia’s Class of 1874, however, due to illness, he was unable to complete final examinations for graduation but was later awarded a Civil Engineering degree by school.
Brother Andrews’ father was Col. Garnett Andrews, a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1855 as a representative of the American or “Know Nothing” Party. Col. Andrews lost by about 10,000 votes statewide to Gov. Herschel V. Johnson (UGA 1834). Col. Andrews was the author of the legendary memoir “Reminiscences of An Old Georgia Lawyer,” published in 1870. Though Garnett Andrews owned 200 or more slaves at one time, he believed strongly in the preservation of the Union and vocally opposed Southern secession as “futile” and “potentially tragic.” Nonetheless, once war was eminent, Col. Andrews supported the South and his native state; his son, Garnett Andrews, Jr., was the first in Wilkes County to join the Confederate Army.
CAREER: Brother Marshall Andrews was an Assistant Engineer for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1881 until 1884, he helped construct railroads in Georgia and South Carolina that became a part of the Seaboard system. Beginning in 1885, Marshall Andrews worked on a number of river and harbor improvement projects in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, including the design and construction of navigation locks and dams and storage reservoirs to facilitate navigation and power sources. In 1901 and 1902, Andrews help develop plans and specifications for the construction of the sea wall at Galveston, Texas following the ferocious Galveston Category 4-hurricane that devastated that city in 1900, killing as many as 12,000 people. The first three-miles of the wall were built beginning in 1902, and the total project was completed in 1904.
Brother Andrews’ father was Col. Garnett Andrews, a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1855 as a representative of the American or “Know Nothing” Party. Col. Andrews lost by about 10,000 votes statewide to Gov. Herschel V. Johnson (UGA 1834). Col. Andrews was the author of the legendary memoir “Reminiscences of An Old Georgia Lawyer,” published in 1870. Though Garnett Andrews owned 200 or more slaves at one time, he believed strongly in the preservation of the Union and vocally opposed Southern secession as “futile” and “potentially tragic.” Nonetheless, once war was eminent, Col. Andrews supported the South and his native state; his son, Garnett Andrews, Jr., was the first in Wilkes County to join the Confederate Army.
CAREER: Brother Marshall Andrews was an Assistant Engineer for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1881 until 1884, he helped construct railroads in Georgia and South Carolina that became a part of the Seaboard system. Beginning in 1885, Marshall Andrews worked on a number of river and harbor improvement projects in Alabama, Florida and Georgia, including the design and construction of navigation locks and dams and storage reservoirs to facilitate navigation and power sources. In 1901 and 1902, Andrews help develop plans and specifications for the construction of the sea wall at Galveston, Texas following the ferocious Galveston Category 4-hurricane that devastated that city in 1900, killing as many as 12,000 people. The first three-miles of the wall were built beginning in 1902, and the total project was completed in 1904.
