{"id":6274,"date":"2020-10-13T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bratenahlhistorical.org\/?page_id=6274"},"modified":"2022-06-07T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:14:33","slug":"matthew-and-mabel-andrews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bratenahlhistorical.org\/index.php\/matthew-and-mabel-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew and Mabel Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\tPeople\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\tResidents\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\tMatthew and Mabel Shields Andrews – Businessman and Philanthropist\n\t<\/h3>\n

\n\t\tGordon Hall (East 88th Street)\n\t<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\"Matthew\n\t\tMatthew Andrews\n\t

Matthew Andrews, chairman of the board of M. A. Hanna Company, and Mabel Shields Andrews, a recognized Cleveland philanthropist, lived in Bratenahl at Gordon Hall<\/a>, Dan Hanna’s fashionable English manor.<\/p>\n

Matthew Andrews was born on March 29, 1865 in Industry, Pennsylvania, the son of Thompson J. and America Andrews. His family moved to East Liverpool, Ohio, when Matthew was young.\u00a0 He came to Cleveland as an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, working as the weighmaster at the railway’s East 55th<\/sup> Street station.\u00a0 After some time employed by the railroad, he worked at the C&P ore dock, obtaining first-hand experience in the handling of iron ore traffic on the river and lake.\u00a0 Thereafter, he worked at the M.A. Hanna iron ore dock, where he later became superintendent.<\/p>\n

Impressed by his knowledge of the iron ore trade, Andrews was made a partner in the M. A. Hanna Company around 1908, working alongside Dan R. Hanna<\/a> and R. L. Ireland<\/a>.\u00a0 In 1922, Andrews became chairman of the board of the company.\u00a0 He maintained an office at 1300 Leader Building.\u00a0 Andrews was a member of the Union, Tavern, Chagrin Valley Hunt, Pepper Pike, and India House Clubs, and the Racquet and Tennis Clubs of New York.<\/p>\n\t

Andrews married Mabel Shields in Hudson, Ohio on February 24, 1892.\u00a0 Mabel Shields Andrews was born on March 9, 1869, on East Main Street in Hudson, Ohio.\u00a0 They had two children, Donald Shields, born on September 21, 1893, and Marcella Virginia, born on March 18, 1895.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Mabel\n\t

Mabel Shields Andrews<\/p>\n\t

Matthew and Mabel Andrews purchased Gordon Hall from Dan Hanna in 1910.\u00a0 They lived in the manor for ten years, hosting large society events.\u00a0 \u00a0On January 27, 1917, Marcella married Charles McGhee Baxter, the son of the former Governor of Tennessee, in what was described at the time as “the largest and most fashionable wedding of the winter.”\u00a0 The wedding reception was held at Gordon Hall. Marcella and Charles Baxter had three children, Matthew Andrews Baxter, Charles McGhee Baxter, Jr., and Nancy Baxter.<\/p>\n

During the time that the Andrews lived at Gordon Hall, their son Donald married Alma V. Hayne<\/a> over their firm objections.\u00a0 Hayne claimed to be the natural daughter of the Crown Prince Rudolph, son of Emperor Francis Joseph, and Marie Vetsera, the beautiful young baroness, with whom the crown prince was found dead in a hunting lodge in 1889. The wedding scandalized society at the time and the marriage ended within a few weeks.\u00a0 Donald later married Nilah Reeder, becoming an independent chemical researcher.\u00a0 They had one son Donald Shields Andrews, Jr.<\/p>\n

The Andrews moved from Gordon Hall to Gates Mills in the early 1920s, leaving the manor vacant.\u00a0 Over a period of three years in the late 1920s, the Andrews family experienced loss and tragedy. Marcella Andrews Baxter died in Paris on May 16, 1927, at the age of 32.\u00a0 On January 5, 1929, Matthew Andrews died in St. Augustine, Florida, where he had gone for a winter vacation.\u00a0 He was 63 years old.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0On June 10, 1930, Donald Shields Andrews died at his chemical laboratory in Fairhaven, New Jersey, after he accidently drank poison mistaking it for water.<\/p>\n\t

After the death of her husband and children, Mabel Andrews continued to live at her estate on Hanover Road in Gates Mills until 1951, when she moved to Wade Park Manor.\u00a0 She devoted herself to philanthropic pursuits.\u00a0 She was a charter member of the Garden Club of Cleveland and helped establish the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland and the Fine Arts Garden.\u00a0 She established the Matthew Andrews Foundation at University Hospital in memory of her husband.\u00a0 The foundation provided funds for the study, prevention, and treatment of nervous and mental diseases.\u00a0 In 1945, Mabel Andrews donated the site of Gordon Hall to the City of Cleveland for park purposes, although most of the land would be used eventually for the construction of the Lakeland Freeway.<\/p>\n

In 1954, Wooster College dedicated Matthew Andrews Hall, a new dormitory designed to house 80 male students, funded in part by the generosity of Mabel Andrews. \u00a0She became a member of the board of trustees of Wooster College in 1954, receiving an honorary degree from the college in 1960.\u00a0 She was honored again in 1962 when the Andrews Library at Wooster College was dedicated.\u00a0 She donated $1 million for the library in 1969.<\/p>\n

Mabel Shields Andrews died on January 7, 1963 at the age of 94.\u00a0 \u00a0She is buried next to Matthew and her two children at Lakeview Cemetery.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to People\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tResidents List\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People Residents Matthew and Mabel Shields Andrews – Businessman and Philanthropist Gordon Hall (East 88th Street) Matthew Andrews Matthew Andrews, chairman of the board of M. A. Hanna Company, and Mabel Shields Andrews, a recognized Cleveland philanthropist, lived in Bratenahl at Gordon Hall, Dan Hanna’s fashionable English manor. 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