There he was a member of varsity teams in baseball and American football[4] and in 1899 received a bachelor's degree with a major in languages, although he was extremely interested in botany.
At Williams College, he published a list of mosses and hepatics of the northwest corner of Massachusetts in the Mount Greylock region.
[4] From his arrival at Cornell in 1908, he made contacts in the botany department and started conducting field trips for students who wanted to study the nearby moss flora.
[7] His botanical correspondents include Liberty Hyde Bailey, John Hendley Barnhart, Hugo Leander Blomquist, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Shoemaker Conard, Howard Alvin Crum, Elias Durand, Alexander William Evans, William Gilson Farlow, Roxana Stinchfield Ferris, Abel Joel Grout, Olaf Hagerup, Elva Lawton, Leopold Loeske, William Ralph Maxon, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Conrad Vernon Morton, Philip A. Munz, Harold Norman Moldenke, Geneva Sayre, Aaron John Sharp, Alexander Skutch, William Campbell Steere, Roland Thaxter,[5] Carl Friedrich Warnstorf,[8] Winona H. Welch, and many others.
Sphagnaceae in part 1, volume 15 (1913) of the multi-volume series North American Flora published by the New York Botanical Garden.
[10][3] The bryologist Laura Briscoe[11] wrote in 2010: Any student of Sphagnum is familiar with the existing North American treatments of the genus.
Their family name can be traced back to John and Mary Andrews, who in 1640 were among the earliest English settlers of Farmington, Connecticut.