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GUY L. ANDREWS
Vol. 3, p. 1060
Book has photo

It has been as a member of the bar that Mr. Andrews has performed
his most important services in Oklahoma, and for a number of years he
has enjoyed a large and profitable share of the practice at
McAlester, where he is now head of the firm of Andrews & LIDKE.

Before taking up the profession of law Mr. Andrews was a school
teacher and also a business man, and first came to Indian Territory
to engage in the coal business. He was born on his father's farm in
Guadaloupe County, Texas, a son of William Whitman and Willie A.
(HUDSON) Andrews. His father, who was of Scotch ancestry and a native
of North Carolina, saw active duty as a Confederate during the was
between the states. While engaged in one of these campaigns he met
Miss Hudson, who was a native of Virginia and of English lineage. At
the close of the war they married and in 1867 William W. Andrews
moved to Texas and located on a farm in Guadaloupe County, near
Seguin. He was not only a practical farmer but a school teacher, and
his wife was also well educated and taught school after coming to
Texas. He founded a school for girls in Hays County.

Guy L. Andrews grew up in that section of Southern Texas, acquired
an education in the public schools and at the age of sixteen entered
the University of Texas but did not graduate. After leaving school he
taught for a time in his mother's school and then for two years in
the public schools. For his next work he became a traveling solicitor
and had a broad and thorough experience in that line continuing
through seven years.

In 1900 Mr. Andrews became connected with the Hailey, Oklahoma, Coal
Mining Company, and from a minor position during the next three years
won his way to an assistant superintendency, and became thoroughly
competent in all branches of the coal mining industry. Meanwhile he
had taken up he study of law and in 1903 was admitted and began
practice at Wilburton, but soon afterwards removed to McAlester. With
more than ten years of practice to his credit, Mr. Andrews is now
regarded as one of the leading lawyers in the eastern part of the
state. In 1897 he married Miss Magdaline SCHWAUSH. Though a stanch
democrat he has never sought political honors, though for four years
he has served as a member of the city board of education of McAlester
and is now president of the board. He is affiliated with the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in May 1915, was honored
by election to the presidency of the State Association of the
fraternity.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Janie Edwards, August 1999.