Editing Samuel Andrew (section)

==Early life==
Samuel was born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the eldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth (née White) Andrew.<ref name="Partridge">{{cite book |last=Partridge |first=Craig |date=1995|title=The descendants of William Andrew of Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Penobscot Press |pages=6–12}}</ref>  The elder Samuel was a merchant and shipmaster and the master builder of the first [[Harvard Hall]].  Elizabeth's step-father, a wealthy Salem merchant named George Curwin, paid for the younger Samuel's education.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Essex Institute Historical Collections, Vol. 40|location=Salem, Massachusetts |publisher=Essex Institute |page=301 |date=1904}}</ref>

He graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1675 and received a master's degree in 1678. He then became a tutor at the college until 1684.  He was elected a Fellow of the college in 1679.<ref name="Sibley2">{{cite book |last=Sibley |first=John Langdon |date=1881|title=Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vol II, 1659-1677|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Charles William Sever |pages=457–462}}</ref> His students at Harvard included multiple co-founders of Yale (see below) and future Harvard president [[John Leverett]].<ref name="Sibley3">{{cite book |last=Sibley |first=John Langdon |date=1885|title=Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vol III, 1678-1689|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Charles William Sever}}</ref>