John Andrewartha (1839 - 1916)

Born 25 Aug 1839 in Falmouth, Cornwall

Ancestors

Husband of Jemima Louisa (Whillier) Andrewartha — married 11 Jun 1861 in Gosport, Hampshire

Descendants

Died 7 Nov 1916 at age 77 in Austin, Texas, United States

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Falmouth 1833

Biography

John Andrewartha (25 Aug 1839 – 7 Nov 1916) ^{[1] [2]}
was a Cornish-born American architect and civil engineer.
He began working in the United States in 1865, first based in Louisville, Kentucky, and after 1881 in Austin, Texas.

Louisville 1865

In Kentucky his firm won a design contest in 1866 for the Louisville City Hall. The city's Courier-Journal Building was also his design; it burned down in 1979. Andrewartha also designed the original entrance lodge, stables, clubhouse, and other structures at Churchill Downs, though they have all since been replaced.
In 1872, Andrewartha and two others (the contractor and the site foreman) were charged with manslaughter after the fatal collapse of the Pettit Building in Louisville. But in late 1873, he was listed as the architect for the building of the Fourth Kentucky Lunatic Asylum project.

Austin 1916

Among his varied completed projects in Texas were the Austin City-County Hospital (1884), the first public hospital in Texas; the St. John's Home for Negro Orphans in East Austin (1911), the original Montopolis Bridge over the Colorado River (which was washed away in a 1935 flood), and Austin residences such as the Henry Hirschfeld House, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Marriage
mentioned in the record of John Andrewartha and Jemima Louisa Whillier
Name John Andrewartha ^[3]
Spouse's Name Jemima Louisa Whillier
Event Date 11 Jun 1861 | Event Place Alverstoke, Hampshire, England

Find A Grave: Memorial #16347394

People – LifeTree

William Henry Guy Andrewartha (1833 - 1887) : The VDL Link - (brother)

Andrewartha, John (1839–1916) : The Handbook of Texas

John Andrewartha Obituary Austin American-Statesman Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas Cemeteries - Heritage Tree - (Oakwood)

This profile is part of the Andrewartha Name Study.

1861 Alice Mary Andrewartha;
1863 Kate Andrewartha;
1865 Louis Whillier Andrewartha;
1868 Ernest Andrewartha;
1870 Saint John Lee Andrewartha;
1871 Louisa Andrewartha;
1873 Kate Aubrey Andrewartha;
1874 Guy Andrewartha;
1877 John Oakshot Andrewartha; ^[4]
1879 Jeannette Andrewartha and
1885 William Guy Andrewartha

see FamilySearch Tree for John Andrewartha

Sources

1. ↑ (via wikipedia.org)
2. ↑ Oakwood Cemetery - The Handbook of Texas
3. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch : 10 December 2014, John Andrewartha and Jemima Louisa Whillier, 11 Jun 1861; citing Alverstoke, Hampshire, England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 918,907.
4. ↑ ancestry.com ? [1]