Andrew Flinn Dickson
Andrew Flinn Dickson (November 8, 1825 – January 8, 1879) was an American minister and author born in Charleston, South Carolina. Birth Dickson was to Rev. John Dickson in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 8, 1825. His mother was a daughter of Rev. Andrew Flinn, D.D., the first pastor of the 2d Presbyterian Church in Charleston. Education and career Dickson graduated from Yale College in 1845. After graduation he began to teach in his native city, but soon moved to a more northern climate for the sake of his father's health. He taught in Cincinnati for about a year, and after his father's death in 1847, entered Lane Theological Seminary. The next year he returned to New Haven, and was connected with the Yale Divinity School until January 1850. In the meantime, he had been licensed to preach by the Middlesex (Conn) Association of Congregational Ministers, and was married on January 7, 1850 to Miss A. H. Woocthull, of Long Island. He took charge of the Presbyterian Churches of John's Island and Wadmalaw near Charleston, in which of a membership of 360, 330 were African-American. After serving in this position for some years and acting for a short time as