Andrew Sickles Norwood (1770-1856)
Carpet Merchant & Shipowner, of 241 West 14th Street, New York City
He was born in New York City, the son of a cordwainer who was thrown into prison by the British during the Revolution, into the notorious Sugar House. On his release, he would send Andrew to the prison to bring food to the prisoners. He became wealthy as the owner as a carpet merchant and the owner, agent and broker of a line of merchant ships. He struck up a friendship with the Marquis de Lafayette on his tour of America in 1824. He lived at 6 Bond Street until the completion of his new home in 1846, 241 West 14th Street, which from 2007 to 2022 was home to the Norwood Club. His obituary in The New York Times described him as, "possessing a character of the most undeviating integrity, unostentatious in his manners, industrious and frugal in his habits, he felt a peculiar and honest pride in being a genuine Knickerbocker of the old school." After his first wife died in 1803 he married her sister and had nine children, but the three by his first wife all died in infancy, and only the six (listed) by his second wife survived.
