Sherlock James Andrews (November 17, 1801 – February 11, 1880), was an American lawyer and abolitionist Congressman from Ohio.

[1] He became the 1st President of the Cleveland Bar Association and was one of the lawyers who defended the abolitionists in the Oberlin–Wellington Rescue Case with John Mercer Langston.

[2] He was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, to Dr. John Andrews and Abigail Atwater, granddaughter of Sarah Yale and Capt.

After graduation, he became assistant and personal secretary to Chemist professor Benjamin Silliman of Yale, also founder of the American Journal of Science.

[2] He was an intricate part of the early development of Cleveland as the first president of the city council and the public library board.

[2] In 1859 at Wellington, Ohio, he was one of the attorneys defending the abolitionist men who rescued John Price from "slave catchers".

He was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in 1867 after the American Civil War, which had made Cleveland a heavy manufacturing center, ranging from railroad supplies to gun carriages, gun powder and ship building.

[13] Juge Andrews's granddaughter married to Maj. Chapman, brother of Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough, and brother-in-law of Senator Henry C. Hansbrough, and his grandson, Frank Rufus Herrick, married the daughter of Congressman Theodore Medad Pomeroy, family member of the Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, brother of CIA Director Allen Dulles.

[14][15][16][7] Their daughter was artist Josephine Herrick who worked on the Manhattan Project and was in partnership in a New York studio with Princess Miguel de Braganza.