Byron Andrews

Byron Andrews (1852–1910) was an American journalist for Chicago Inter Ocean and National Tribune, private secretary to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant on his Industrial Excursions to Mexico and Cuba, a statesman, a lecturer and an author. He became third owner of the National Tribune newspaper and publishing company in Washington, D.C.

Byron Andrews, B.A., M.A., L.H.D. was born on October 25, 1852, in Argyle, Wisconsin. He was the eldest child of John Cain Andrews (born in Norwalk, Ohio) and Sarah Wright (born in Barlestone, England). His siblings were Marilla Andrews (wife of Edward Lyon Buchwalter), Eleanora Andrews, Jerome Andrews and Cassian Andrews. In 1868, his family moved to Evansville, Wisconsin. He would later marry Belle Fisk.

The Andrews family moved to Evansville, Wisconsin for the purpose of Byron and his four siblings to attend the Evansville Seminary of Wisconsin that was established by the local Methodist church to educate students for entrance into college. After graduation in 1871, he moved to Geneva, New York where in 1875, earned a B.A. degree in journalism at Hobart College, now known as Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Late in 1900 he earn an honorary degree of the said college.

Byron Andrews went directly from college to newspaper work and served as a reporter on the Chicago Daily News. Then for four years, he was the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean and the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1880 he accompanied U.S. President, General Ulysses S. Grant, on a tour through the West Indies, Mexico and Cuba as his secretary and as correspondent, of the Chicago Inter Ocean and New York Tribune. As early as 1880, he was advertising representative for newspapers National Tribune, American Farmer and Boston Commonwealth in offices of the World Building (aka Pulitzer Building) in New York City. In 1884 Byron Andrews accepted the position of editor for the National Tribune of Washington, D.C. at a salary of $5000 a year and a percent of the profits. By 1897 became one of the three owners of the said newspaper/publishing company. He also filled many public positions of trust.

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