Andrew Newman Hedges
The third of the trio of young men educated together, part in our public schools, then by Father Rowland and then at the college in Western Pennsylvania at which Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, graduated of which James G. Blaine was a distinguished alumnus, was he of whom I may write, I trust, without subjecting myself to criticism, a few more words, Andrew Newman Hedges. His was a faultless form and a cultured brain. In a class of two and forty at college, the poet thereof. His intellect was keen, his equipment for his age excellent, and his knowledge exact. He, too, entered on the study of the law. For a year at the height of the war he served with Captain Shunk, the Provo-Marshal of the district. Ere he had entered actively the lists in his profession, he was met in the way, and death conquered. His life was gentle and the elements in him assured a man. Though his body be buried for three score years, he lives in the memories of many who loved him.
From The Richland Shield & Banner: December 15, 1894, Vol. LXXVII, No. 31