Robert Wilson Andrews

Robert Wilson Andrews
Hanapēpē Falls, Kauai, graphite drawing on paper by Robert Wilson Andrews, 1857

Robert Wilson Andrews (18371922) was a Hawaii-born artist and engineer. His father Lorrin Andrews (1795–1868) was an early American missionary to Hawaii and a judge. Prior to leaving Hawaii in 1859, Robert made a number of finely crafter landscape drawings including renderings of the sacrificial stone at Kolekole Pass, Iao Needle, Kapuʻuohoʻokamoa-Hāmākualoa Falls and Hanapēpē Falls.[1] He studied engineering on the mainland, and returned to Hawaii, where he worked as a suggarmill engineer for 30 years. He remained involved with the church, and spent his retirement years teaching Sunday school.[2]

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  1. Severson, 2002
  2. Siddall, 1921