Born in Ashland County in 1819, Lorin Andrews studied at Kenyon College from 1838 to 1841 and achieved renown as an Ohio school superintendent and advocate for public elementary and secondary education. As Kenyon's president beginning in 1854, he enlarged the college and enhanced its reputation. Even before the April 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, he sensed war's inevitability, offered his services to Governor Dennison, and organized Company A of the Fourth Ohio Volunteers, while Kenyon alumnus Henry Banning raised Company B. Many Kenyon students, including Charles McCook of the "Fighting McCooks," followed their example. Andrews contracted typhoid fever during the Western Virginia Campaign and returned to Gambier, where he died on September 18, 1861. His remains are interred in the Kenyon cemetery.