She, along with Charlotte Angas Scott, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of American Men of Science, which appeared in 1906.
[1] Andrews was one of five children of Edward Gayer Andrews, a Methodist Episcopal bishop and school administrator; she was born in Brooklyn, and moved frequently as a child, including stays in Ohio, Iowa, Washington DC, and Europe.
Her dissertation was The Primitive Double Minimal Surface of the Seventh Class and its Conjugate.
She then served as accountant to the Treasurer for Wesleyan University from 1903 to 1926, working from her home in Brooklyn.
She was also an executive in various capacities for the New York branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.