WILLIAM FRANCIS ANDROSS
EAST HARTFORD
Secretary Connecticut State Agricultural Society
William F. Andross, born at East Hartford, Conn., June 21, 1850, has passed his entire life in that and the adjoining town of South Windsor. He received his education in various public and private schools, and was married September 21, 1874, to Irene E. Bidwell of Manchester, by whom he has three children, two sons and one daughter, few men being more fortunate in their domestic relations. As a business man, Mr. Andross has been engaged in market gardening, tobacco growing, and at present as a commercial traveler in the fertilizer and chemical line, representing the well-known house of H. J. Baker & Brother of New York. For the last ten years he has been actively connected with the commercial fertilizer trade, acting at different times for the Bowker Fertilizer Company, the Bradley Fertilizer Company, the Soluble Pacific Guano Company, and is also at present agent for the Brockway Carriage Company of Homer, N.Y., and the Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Cornpanv. While not specially active in politics, he is a decided republican, and has held various town offices.
Mr. Andross is perhaps best known throughout the state as secretary of the Connecticut State Agricultural Society, to which position he has just been unanimously elected for a fifth term, and has filled its difficult and onerous duties with remarkable ability and success. He is also a vice-president of the Tolland County Agricultural Society, a director in the New England Tobacco Growers’ Association, the Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the Hartford County Agricultural, and the Hartford County Horticultural societies. He took an active interest in the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and was a charter member and first secretary of South Windsor Grange, No. 28, and was for two years a member of the State Grange executive committee, having the trading arrangements of the order in hand; was also a charter member of Crescent Lodge, I. O. O. F., of East Hartford.
Mr. Andross has also been an extensive contributor to the agricultural and local press, his thorough familiarity with tobacco growing in the Connecticut valley giving his articles a more than ordinary value.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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