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Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was a chemist and inventor. Born in England, he immigrated to the United States before the American Civil War and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He is best known as a partner in the oil refining firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, the major predecessor company of the Standard Oil corporate empire. When ...
Rockefeller, feeling some sense of loyalty to the man who had helped him build and empire and quickly fallen out of favor, offered back the stock for the same price at which he had sold it. Feeling slighted, his ego bruised, Andrews spurned the offer. This decision kept him from becoming one of America’s richest men.
Samuel Andrews (ur. 1836, zm. 1904) – amerykański chemik i wynalazca. Życiorys [ edytuj | edytuj kod ] Urodził się w Anglii i wyemigrował do Stanów Zjednoczonych przed Wojną secesyjną i osiadł w Cleveland , Ohio .
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He graduated from Williams College in 1839 and practiced law for some years, but turned his attention to theology, and was a Congregational clergyman from 1848 to 1855. In 1856 he became pastor of the Catholic and Apostolic Church (Irvingite) at Hartford, Connecticut.
Andrews's publications include: 1. Sufferings of Union Soldiers in Southern Prisons: Transcript of Andersonville Trial(1870) 2. God's Revelations of Himself to Men(1885) 3. Life of our Lord upon the Earth, Considered in its Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Relations(New York, 1863; new and wholly revised edition, 1891) 4. Christianity an...
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{...Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Andrews, Samuel James" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was a chemist and inventor. Born in England, he immigrated to the United States before the American Civil War and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He is best known as a partner in the oil refining firm of Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, the major predecessor company of the Standard Oil corporate empire. When the first ...
Samuel Andrews (né à Oaksey dans les Cotswolds le 10 février 1836 - mort à Atlantic City (New Jersey) le 15 avril 1904) est un chimiste anglo-américain. Spécialiste des techniques de distillation , il est surtout connu comme l'un des membres fondateurs de la société de raffinage Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler , qui donna ...
Hector McNeill. Samuel likely participated in The Battle of Raft Swamp which occurred on October 15, 1781 between about 600 Tories and 1400 Whigs.”14 On the evacuation of Wilmington in September 1781 Major Samuel Andrews set out for Charleston, the nearest British garrison, but was taken prisoner once again. He
