Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886), was an educator, attorney, abolitionist, linguist, political philosopher, and author. The son of Elisha Andrews and Wealthy Ann Lathrop Andrews, he was born in Templeton, Massachusetts. From 1828 to 1829, he attended Amherst Academy (Amherst, Mass.). In 1830, he moved to Jackson, Louisiana, and taught at the Jackson Female Seminary, an institution founded by his brother and sister-in-law. During the fall of 1831, he was a tutor of Latin at the College of Louisiana (Jackson, La.). Later in 1831, he moved to Clinton, Louisiana, where he assisted his brother’s law practice. He was admitted to practice law in 1833 and continued work with his brother in Clinton. In 1835, he married Mary Ann Gordon (d. 1855) and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he opened his own law practice. In 1839, he moved to the Republic of Texas and practiced law in Houston. After advocating for the abolition of slavery, he was forced to leave Texas in 1843. After travelling to England to raise funds for the abolitionist movement in the United States, he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, and began promoting the Pitman shorthand writing system. In 1848, Andrews moved to New York City, where he became involved with anarchism and developing utopian communities. In 1856, he married Esther Hussey Bartlett Jones.