The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Allen S.

ANDREWS, Allen S., educator, was born in Randolph county, N. C. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812. Allen S. was born near Fuller's Ford, N. C., the oldest of nine children. He was reared a farmer's boy, accustomed to active life on a plantation. In his early manhood he was a Methodist preacher connected with the North Carolina annual conference. He was elected to the professorship of English literature in the Greensboro female college, and at the end of his first year was elected professor of English in Trinity college. N. C., where he completed his education and was graduated in 1854. In the autumn of 1854, he was transferred to the Alabama annual conference, and took charge of the collegiate institute at Glenville, Ala. In 1837 he resigned from that institution and returned to the active work of the ministry. He was president of the Southern university 1871-'75, and 1883, and served the itinerant ministry, 1875-'82. He received the degree D.D. from Southern university in 1870, and LL.D. from that and from the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Auburn, Ala., in 1886. He was a member of the first œcumenical conference of Methodism in London, in 1880, and of several general conferences of the church. He died at Union Springs, Ala., Dec. 4, 1898.