About Robert Wilson Andrews
Lived 1837 – 1922 (aged 84–85). Robert Wilson Andrews was an engineer.
Robert Wilson Andrews (June 8, 1837 – 1922) was a Hawaii-born artist and engineer. His father Lorrin Andrews (1795–1868) was an early American missionary to Hawaii and a judge. Prior to leaving Hawaii in 1859, Robert made a number of finely crafter landscape drawings including renderings of the sacrificial stone at Kolekole Pass, ʻĪao Needle, Kapuuohookamoa-Hāmākualoa Falls and Hanapēpē Falls. He studied engineering on the mainland at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and returned to Hawaii in 1863, where he worked as a sugar mill engineer for 30 years. He remained involved with the church, and spent his retirement years teaching Sunday school.
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Robert Wilson Andrews was born in 1837.
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Robert Wilson Andrews died in 1922.
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Robert Wilson Andrews was an engineer.
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