Background
Andrews, James Dewitt was born on February 22, 1856 in Sterling, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert C. and Rhoda Clark (Kingsbury) Andrews.
Andrews, James Dewitt was born on February 22, 1856 in Sterling, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert C. and Rhoda Clark (Kingsbury) Andrews.
Graduate Sterling High School, 1876, Bachelor of Laws, Albany Law School (Union U.), 1879. Master of Laws, Chicago Law School, 1897. (Doctor of Laws, Ruskin University, 1904).
Admitted to bar, 1879. Practiced law, Whiteside County, Illinois, 1879-1891, Chicago, 1891-1903, New York, since 1903. City attorney, Sterling, Illinois, 1880.
Became law critic, Callaghan & Company, law publications, Chicago, 1891.
Professor of law, Northwestern University, 1895. Professor jurisprudence (postgraduate), Chicago Law School, 1897.
Married Minnie Alice Barrett, June 9, 1880.