Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Andrews, Allen S. August 18 1824 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   REV. ALLEN S. ANDREWS, D. D., LL. D., president of the Southern university at
Greensboro, Ala., was born in Randolph county, N. C., August 18, 1824. His
father, Hezekiah Andrews, married a Miss Fuller, a lineal descendant of Capt.
"Brit" Fuller, of Greene's army, in the Revolutionary war. Both were natives of
North Carolina, where they lived and died. They were likewise both of English
ancestry. Hezekiah Andrews was a farmer by occupation, and was for many years
high sheriff of his county. He died of apoplexy in North Carolina in 1863, at
the age of seventy-two. Dr. Allen S. Andrews was reared in his native state upon
the farm. He graduated from Trinity college in Randolph county, as bachelor of
arts, in 1854, and in 1857 Centenary college, Columbia, conferred upon him the
degree of master of arts. Long before he graduated from Trinity college, he
began teaching school in North Carolina, and in 1845, he was licensed as a
Methodist preacher. In 1850 he was elected to a professorship in Greensboro
Female college, North Carolina, and held the position two years. He came to
Alabama in 1855, and for two years had charge of the Glenville institute. He
then went to Mobile, and was pastor of the St. Francis Street Methodist church,
south, and at the end of the two years was transferred to Eufaula. From Eufaula
he was sent to Dayton, and he was there at the outbreak of the Civil war. During
that great struggle he was chaplain of a regiment three years, and at the close
of the war he was elected president of the Female institute at Columbus, Miss.
In 1869 he returned to the ministry at Mobile, and in 1871, he was elected to
the presidency of the Southern university at Greensboro, Ala. He held that
position four years, and. then resigned to accept the pastorate of the Court
Street Methodist Episcopal church, south, of Montgomery, Ala. He remained here
for four years, and then spent four years in Opelika, and one year at Selma,
when he was again elected president of the Southern university at Greensboro,
Ala., since which time he has retained that position, giving nearly all his
attention to the work of education. Under his management this institution has
become one of the most popular in the south, in which division of the country
Dr. Andrews has few, if any, equals. While he is a man of profound learning,
sound logic, and persuasive eloquence, he is yet so unpretentious and
unassuming, and of such great tenderness and sympathy, that all are charmed by
his character and presence. Dr. Andrews has been twice married. While still in
North Carolina, he married, in 1850, Miss Margaret C. Leach, who bore him two
children, and died in 1855, at Glenville, Ala. Their son, Julian L., died when
sixteen years of age at Mobile, Ala., and their daughter, Lizzie M., married
Rev. R. T. Nabors, now deceased. Rev. Mr. Nabors was born in Shelby county,
Ala., July 13, 1850, and died at Vanderbilt university in 1884. He was one of
the most brilliant young men of his day. In 1861 Dr. Andrews, while in Mobile,
married Miss Virginia F. Hudson, daughter of Llewellyn Hudson, and by this
marriage he has five children: Willie F., graduated from the university of
Alabama in 1883, and received the degree of master of arts from the Southern
university in 1886; he is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, south;
Allen L., A. M., is also a pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, south; he
graduated from the Southern university in 1887; the other children are Lila L.,
Leigh R., and John H. Dr. Andrews received the degree of D. D., from the
Southern university in 1870, and the degree of LL. D., from the same university,
and from the A. and M. college at Auburn, Ala., in 1888.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1053-1054
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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