The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 277

H. H. ANDREWS.

H. H. Andrews, well known in the business circles of Yakima as the head of the
Andrews Overland Company, was born in Pontiac, Michigan, May 3, 1880, and is a
son of Charles N. and Sarah Jane Andrews. The father is a son of Samuel Andrews,
a native of Connecticut and a representative of one of the old families of the
Massachusetts Bay colony. His wife was a niece of General Joseph Warren, who
led the forces at the battle of Bunker Hill in the year 1832 the grandfather of
Mr. Andrews of this review left New England and made his way westward to
Michigan, traveling across the country with ox team and wagon. On reaching his
destination he took up government land, for at that time much of the state of
Michigan was still owned by the government and the work of progress and
improvement had scarcely been begun in many sections of the state. The family
has since been represented there and Charles V. Andrews, father of H. H.
Andrews, yet occupies the old homestead.

Spending his boyhood and youth in his native state, H. H. Andrews supplemented
his public school training by a course in the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor and there won the Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class
of 1905. He afterward took up newspaper work, which he continued to follow in
the Mississippi valley until 1907, when attracted by the opportunities of the
growing west, he made his way to the Pacific coast, continuing in newspaper work
until 1911. He was editor of the Yakima Morning Herald for four years and became
well known in journalistic circles of this section of the state. He had also
proved up on a homestead, which he afterward sold, and in 1912 he entered the
automobile business, making his initial step in that direction as an employe of
the Washington Automobile Company, with which he remained for a year. He
afterward began working for Fred Chandler, with whom he continued from 1913
until 1917, when he embarked in business on his own account. It was on the 21st
of December of that year that he organized the Yakima Motor Sales Company, in
which undertaking he was associated with C. S. Mead. They leased a building
opposite the postoffice and having a frontage of fifty feet. On the 1st of
January, 1919, the name of this company was changed to the Andrews Overland
Company. They have the agency for the Overland and also for the Willys-Knight
cars and for the Nash passenger cars and trucks. The Overland business in this
locality was much increased in the year 1918, owing to the progressive methods
and unfaltering spirit of enterprise displayed by the new firm. They have a
service station for their own patrons and they carry, a full line of accessories
and auto parts. They have the general agency and are the distributing center
for Kittitas, Yakima and Benton counties and the firm has adequate
representation all over the valley. They employ several men in Yakima and their
business is constantly growing. Mr. Andrews has built up a business of very
gratifying proportions and his present interests are indicative of the spirit of
enterprise and progress that actuates him at all points in his career.

On the 20th of September, 1916, Mr. Andrews was married to Miss Emma Florence
Mead, of Yakima, and they have many friends in the city where they reside. Mr.
Andrews belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also to the
Country Club. He likewise has membership in the Yakima Valley Business Men's
Association and was made secretary of the Yakima Valley Auto Dealers'
Association for 1918. Of the latter he was one of the organizers and is doing
much to further the interests of the association, which was formed to promote
the business of dealers through cooperation resulting from a discussion of
problems and opportunities for the trade. In politics Mr. Andrews is a
republican, having been a stalwart champion of the party since age conferred
upon him the right of franchise. He is well known as an alert, energetic young
man to whom opportunity has ever been the call to action.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.