The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Samuel James

ANDREWS, Samuel James, clergyman, was born at Danbury, Conn., July 31, 1817. He was graduated from Williams college in 1839, and opened a law office in New York city, but after practising a short time he entered the Congregational ministry. He afterwards occupied the place of tutor in Trinity college, Hartford. He finally adopted the Irvingite doctrine, and in 1868 became minister of the Catholic Apostolic church in Hartford. In 1879 he received the degree D.D. from Union college. He wrote "Life of Our Lord upon Earth" "God's Revelation of Himself to Men"; "Christianity and Anti-Christianity" "The Church and Its Organic Ministries."