The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Charles

ANDREWS, Charles, jurist, was born at Whitestown, N.Y., May 27, 1827; son of George and Polly (Walker) Andrews; grandson of Nathaniel Andrews and of Stephen Walker; and a descendant of John and Mary Andrews, who settled in Farmington, Conn., about 1640; and of "Widow" Walker of Rehoboth, Mass., one of the first purchasers and proprietors of the town in 1643. He attended Cazenovia seminary, N.Y.; studied law in Syracuse, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He was district attorney of Onondaga county, 1853-'56: mayor of Syracuse, in 1861, 1862 and 1868, and was a delegate-at-large at the state constitutional convention of 1867. He was an associate judge of the court of appeals of New York, 1870-'81, and 1884-'93, and chief justice of the same, 1881-'84 and 1893-'97, when he was retired. He married, May 17, 1855, Marcia A. Skankland of Syracuse. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hamilton college in 1877, from Columbia college in 1887 and from Yale university in 1898.