Andrew Wills (ca. 1800–27), educator and editor, was a native of Scotland who graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1816. The next year he moved to the United States and began teaching in 1819 in Fredericksburg, where he owned two slaves in 1820. Wills became a naturalized citizen in 1822 and moved the following year to Huntsville, Alabama, where he was an active Freemason and presided over Greene Academy for nearly two years. In 1826 he became the editor of the Huntsville Democrat, but his political exchanges in the newspaper led to his death in a duel shortly thereafter (Peter John Anderson, ed., Officers and Graduates of University & King’s College, Aberdeen, MVD–MDCCCLX [1893], 275; DNA: RG 29, CS, Fredericksburg, 1820; Ruth Ketring Nuermberger, “The ‘Royal Party’ in Early Alabama Politics,” Alabama Review 6 [1953]: 97–8, 198–209; Jackson, Papers description begins Sam B. Smith, Harold D. Moser, Daniel Feller, and others, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1980– , 11 vols. description ends , 6:576, 577; Huntsville Democrat, 27 July 1827).

TJ included the Anglo-Saxon language as a branch of study to be taught at the University of Virginia in the Rockfish Gap Report of the University of Virginia Commissioners, 4 Aug. 1818, document 5 in a group of documents on The Founding of the University of Virginia: Rockfish Gap Meeting of the University of Virginia Commissioners, 1–4 Aug. 1818.