Alfred T. Andreas

{{Short description|American book publisher and historian}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = |name =Alfred T. Andreas |honorific_suffix = |image = Alfred Theodore Andreas (1839–1900).png |image_size = |alt = |caption = |birth_date ={{birth date|1839|05|29}} |death_date ={{Death date and age|1900|02|10|1839|05|29}} |birth_place =Amity, Orange County, New York |death_place =New Rochelle, New York |burial_place =Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Davenport, Iowa |burial_label = |burial_coordinates =  |nickname = |birth_name =Alfred Theodore Andreas |allegiance ={{flag|United States|1865|23px}} |branch =Union |service_years =1861–1865 |rank =Captain |service_number =  |unit =12th Illinois Infantry, Company G |commands = |battles =American Civil War *Battle of Shiloh *Siege of Corinth *Second Battle of Corinth *Battle of Resaca *Battle of Atlanta *Battle of Jonesborough *March to the Sea *Battle of Bentonville |battles_label = |awards = |memorials = |spouse = {{marriage|Sophia Lyter|1865|1900|end=died}} |relations = |other_work =Book publisher |signature = }} '''Alfred Theodore Andreas''' (May 29, 1839 – February 10, 1900) was an American book publisher and historian.

== Life == He was born in Amity, Orange County, New York, on May 29, 1839.<ref name=Commandery>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdeceav1mili/memorialsofdeceav1mili/page/493/mode/1up |title=Memorials of Deceased Companions of the Commandery of the State of Illinois |pages=493–496 |date=1901 |publisher=Chicago |access-date=2024-01-31 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

After acquiring an education, he moved to Dubuque, Iowa, 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, serving with Sherman on the March to the Sea and the Carolina campaigns.<ref name="HudsonBergman2009">{{cite book|author1=David Hudson|author2=Marvin Bergman|author3=Loren Horton|title=The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v-cdBfPrxfUC&pg=PA18|date=1 May 2009|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-1-58729-724-3|pages=18–19|chapter=Alfred Theodore Andreas|others=Mary R. Mcinroy}}</ref> 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.<ref name="HudsonBergman2009"/> 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.<ref name=Commandery/><ref>{{cite book|last=Gue|first=Benjamin F.|title=History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/Volume 4|date=1903|publisher=Century Historical Company|location=New York City|page=7|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_Iowa_From_the_Earliest_Times_to_the_Beginning_of_the_Twentieth_Century/4/Alfred_T._Andreas}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography == *[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto00andr ''An illustrated historical atlas of Hancock County, Illinois''] (1874) *''An Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota'' (1874)<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Ristow | first1 = Walter W. | year = 1966 | title = Alfred T. Andreas and His Minnesota Atlas | journal = Minnesota History | volume = 40 | issue = 3 | pages = 120–129 | publisher = Minnesota Historical Society Press | jstor = 20177838 }}</ref> *''Illustrated Historical Atlas of Iowa'' (1875) *[http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/cdm/ref/collection/HistAtlas/id/4257 ''Illustrated historical atlas of the State of Indiana''] *[http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/andreas/ ''History of the State of Nebraska''] (1882) *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_8627113_002/index.html ''History of the State of Kansas''] (1883) *''History of Cook County Illinois'' (1884) *''Historical Atlas of Dakota'' (1884) *[https://archive.org/details/historychicagoo00andrgoog History of Chicago ''History of Chicago''] (3 vols., 1884–86)<

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == *Christ Episcopal Church (Red Wing, MN), engraving from the Minnesota Atlas

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