Nellie Greenwood Andrews
{{short description|Canadian suffragist}}
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| alt = A sepia-toned photograph of a white woman with dark hair, parted center and curling on the sides; she is wearing a high-collared blouse with elaborate lace and embroidery in the yoke
| caption = Nellie Greenwood (later Andrews) in the 1880s
| birth_name = Nellie Cora Greenwood
| birth_date = April 21, 1864
| birth_place = Farmington, Maine, U.S.
| death_date = February 19, 1958
| death_place = Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
| other_names = Mrs. W. W. Andrews
| occupation = Educator, clubwoman
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Nellie Cora Greenwood Andrews (April 21, 1864 – 1958) was an American-born Canadian educator, suffragist, temperance worker, and clubwoma
Early life and education
Nellie Cora Greenwood was born in Farmington, Maine, the daughter of Cyprian Stevens Greenwood and Esther Elizabeth Butterfield Greenwood. She graduated from Victoria College in Toronto in 1884,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQnhIJhYbbMC&q=Greenwood+Andrews&pg=PA33 |title=Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 |date=1914 |publisher=American commonwealth Company |language=en}} as the first woman student enrolled at the school, the second woman to graduate from a Canadian college, and the first woman in Canada to earn a Bachelor of Science degree.Kalamakoff, Elizabeth[https://esask.uregina.ca/entry/greenwood_andrews_nellie_1864-_1958.jsp , "Nellie Greenwood Andrews"] The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.{{Cite book |last1=Creese |first1=Mary R. S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9FkFg5ogZAC&dq=Nellie%20Greenwood%20Andrews&pg=PA184 |title=Ladies in the Laboratory III: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women in Science: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries |last2=Creese |first2=Thomas M. |date=2010-02-08 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7289-9 |pages=184 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=1930-06-11 |title=Regina Woman Received First Degree in Science |pages=12 |work=The Sault Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sault-star-regina-woman-received-fir/128279731/ |access-date=2023-07-15 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 1910, she was a special guest for an event at Victoria College, marking the 30th anniversary of her admission, and thus of the admission of women to the school.{{Cite book |last=O'Grady |first=Jean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4MNZYlcbMkC&dq=Nellie+Greenwood+Andrews&pg=PA126 |title=Margaret Addison: A Biography |date=2001 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-2152-0 |pages=126 |language=en}}
Career
Greenwood was a schoolteacher before she married in 1887. She taught botany and drawing at Peterborough Collegiate Institute from 1892 to 1894, and she taught mathematics and astronomy at Mount Allison College in New Brunswick for two years.
Her husband became the first president of Regina College in 1911.{{Cite book |last=Pitsula |first=James M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwPZ7dNrxfMC&dq=Wilbur+W.+Andrews&pg=PA7 |title=As One Who Serves: The Making of the University of Regina |date=2006-04-04 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-7579-0 |pages=7 |language=en}} From 1912 to 1917, Nellie Andrews was president of the Saskatchewan Women's Christian Temperance Union. She also worked for women's suffrage, as chair of the first Provincial Equal Franchise Board. She addressed the provincial legislature on suffrage in 1915. She was elected to the Regina Collegiate Board in 1921, and was founding president of the University Women's Club of Regina.{{Cite book |last=Pitsula |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_oUpB1fMlsC&dq=Nellie+Andrews+Regina&pg=PA2 |title=Honouring Our Past, Embracing Our Future: Celebrating a Century of Excellence in Education at the University of Regina Campus |date=2011 |publisher=University of Regina Press |isbn=978-0-88977-243-4 |pages=2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Dodd |first=Dianne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx3dDwAAQBAJ&dq=Nellie+Greenwood+Andrews&pg=PT25 |title=Our 100 Years: The Canadian Federation of University Women |date=2020-04-21 |publisher=Second Story Press |isbn=978-1-77260-128-2 |language=en}}
Personal life
Greenwood married Wilbur William Andrews in 1887; they had three children, Mabel, Herbert,{{Cite web |title=Dr. Herb & Lenore Andrews Biography |url=https://www.historypa.com/discover/virtual_museum.html |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=Dr. C. H. & Lenore Andrews Virtual Museum, Prince Albert Historical Society}} and Elizabeth. Her husband was a Methodist clergyman, professor, and agriculturist; he died in 1922.{{Cite news |date=1922-08-08 |title=Today Sees Funeral of Dr. Andrews |pages=9 |work=Saskatoon Daily Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/saskatoon-daily-star-today-sees-funeral/128279279/ |access-date=2023-07-15 |via=Newspapers.com}} Andrews died in 1958, at the age of 93, in Regina.{{Cite news |date=1958-02-21 |title=Mrs. W. W. Andrews Dies in Regina |pages=9 |work=Star-Phoenix |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-phoenix-mrs-w-w-andrews-dies-in/128278559/ |access-date=2023-07-15 |via=Newspapers.com}} There is a manuscript of her reminiscences in the Victoria University Student Collection.{{Cite web |title=Nellie Greenwood (F2190-10) |url=https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/archives/holdings/f2190_student_collection/series_10 |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=Victoria University Archives}} In 1992, the Regina Plains Museum included Andrews among notable local women in a display for Canada 125.{{Cite news |date=1992-10-08 |title=Plains Museum honors notable women |pages=36 |work=The Leader-Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-leader-post-plains-museum-honors-not/128278883/ |access-date=2023-07-15 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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External links
- [https://digitalcollections.vicu.utoronto.ca/RS/pages/view.php?ref=467&k= Nellie Greenwood, graduation photograph], Victoria University Library and Archives, Digital Collections.
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Category:People from Farmington, Maine