Alfred Theodore Andreas (May 29, 1839 – February 10, 1900) was an American book publisher and historian.
Life
He was born in
Amity,
Orange County
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, New York, on May 29, 1839.
After acquiring an education, he moved to
Dubuque, Iowa
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, where he taught school for some years and conducted business. In 1860, he moved to Illinois. He enlisted in Company G,
12th Illinois Infantry and served through the American Civil War, rising through the ranks to become a division
commissary
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, serving with Sherman on the
March to the Sea and the Carolina campaigns.
After peace was restored, he moved to
Davenport, Iowa, married and for several years was engaged in compiling and publishing county and State atlases, in partnership with
John Milton Lyter, who became mayor in 1870. In 1875, he completed and published his greatest work, which was an "Illustrated Historical Atlas of Iowa." It was accurate and became an official authority for real estate dealers, county and State officers. Although many made him substantial profit, others, including his Minnesota and Indiana atlases, were financial failures.
Later Andreas moved to Chicago and organized the “Western Historical Company,” and took up historical writing, publishing a three-volume ''History of Chicago''. He died at
New Rochelle, New York, on February 10, 1900.
Selected bibliography
*An illustrated historical atlas of Hancock County, Illinois (1874)
*An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota (1874)
*Illustrated Historical Atlas of Iowa (1875)
*Illustrated historical atlas of the State of Indiana (1876)
*History of the State of Nebraska (1882)
*History of the State of Kansas (1883)
*History of Cook County Illinois (1884)
*Historical Atlas of Dakota (1884)
*History of Chicago (3 vols., 1884–86)
References
External links
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Christ Episcopal Church (Red Wing, MN), engraving from the Minnesota Atlas
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1839 births
1900 deaths
People from Warwick, New York
American publishers (people)
People of Illinois in the American Civil War
Union Army officers
Writers from Davenport, Iowa
19th-century American businesspeople
Military personnel from Iowa
