James Andrews (stonemason)

James Andrews (October 7, 1828 – July 6, 1897) was a Scottish-American stonemason, engineer, and capitalist who collaborated with civil engineer James Buchanan Eads on such projects as the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, the Mississippi River jetties, and a proposed railway system across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

Andrews later served as mason for Eads' South Pass jetties, which eased passage by ships through the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Andrews and Eads eventually produced designs for a railroad to span the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, proposed as an alternative to the Panama Canal.

The railway system was intended to transport entire ships between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean[5] Andrews' also directed for some time the Pittsburgh Steel and Iron Company and the Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Railway Company, which was based in Allegheny City.

[3] He lived for much of his adult life in the city of Allegheny, the North Side of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.