Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Andrews, Silas M., Rev., D.D.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


REV. SILAS M. ANDREWS, D. D. deceased, for nearly fifty 
years the esteemed pastor of the Doylestown Presbyterian 
church, was born in North Carolina, March 11, 1805.  His 
ancestors were of that Scotch-Irish stock from which 
Presbyterianism in this country has received so much of its 
bone and sinew.  After the usual preparatory course in 
school and academy, he entered the Sophomore class of the 
University of North Carolina in July, 1823.  He had united 
with the church in October of the previous year.  He was 
graduated in June, 1826, and spent two years in teaching, 
partly as a tutor in the University.  On the 15th of 
December, 1828, he was matriculated as a student in the 
Princeton Theological seminary, where he took the full 
course of study.  The year after entering the seminary he 
was taken under the care of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, 
as a candidate for the ministry and was licensed February 2, 
1831.  In May, 1831, he preached in the church of Doylestown 
as a candidate for the pastorate.  On the 16th of the 
following October he was ordained and installed pastor of 
the united congregations of Deep Run and Doylestown.  His 
pastorate closed with his death in March, 1881.  During this 
long and useful period of earnest labor, he officiated at no 
less than 1,266 funerals and 1,242 wedding ceremonies, and 
received 1, 050 into church membership.  He was for several 
years, commencing in 1835, principal of the academy, and 
afterwards had a school in his own house.  He was trustee of 
Lafayette college thirty-five years, and clerk of the Synod 
of Philadelphia for many years.  He was one of the 
projectors and managers of the Doylestown cemetery.  In all 
objects of moral and religious interest he was always ready 
to lend his voice and influence.  He was one of the leading 
members of the Bucks County Bible Society.  He never took a 
vacation and was seldom absent from his pulpit more than one 
Sabbath at a time.  No man in the community, either in the 
church or out of it, exercised a wider influence for good, 
and his death was sincerely mourned by all who knew him.