Henry Herbert Andrew. Source: Picture Sheffield.
Throughout the nineteenth century, despite the slow speed of ships, people often travelled abroad, frequently for business. Textiles, machinery, and steel products of all kinds were exported around the Empire and to the U.S. One of these adventurers was Henry Herbert Andrew who crossed the Atlantic more than 60 times. Each journey would have taken at least two weeks, and in harsh weather, as many as 14 weeks. He was head of the Toledo Steelworks in Sheffield, a firm established by his father. Starting at the bottom of the business at the age of 14, Henry worked in every department as he worked his way up. When he died suddenly in New York at the age of 53, his body was brought back for burial in the family grave AA 182 in the Anglican area of the Cemetery. An obituary reported that there ‘are cities in the States where he was almost as well-known as he is in Sheffield’.
You can read more about Henry Herbert Andrew in the SGCT publication Made in Sheffield.
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