Andrew McElwain Criswell (Dickinson Chronicles)
Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Andrew McElwain Criswell,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/c/ed_criswellAM.htm.
Andrew M. Criswell was born near Scotland, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1824 to Robert and Sarah McElwain Criswell. He had some early schooling at the nearby Chambersburg Academy and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1844 with the class of 1847. Criswell was a member of the Union Philosophical Society while at the College. He left his studies in 1845 to take up farming and then school teaching. He was later involved with a store and local real estate dealings in Scotland.