The New Student's Reference Work/Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, an American educator, formerly president of Brown University and now chancellor of the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, was born at Hinsdale, N. H., January 10, 1844. During the Civil War he served in the army, and lost an eye at Petersburg in August, 1864, Graduating subsequently at Brown University, Providence, R. I., he became principal of the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield, Conn., and later on was professor of history and political economy at Cornell, and president of Brown University, his alma mater. Owing to criticism by trustees of the University of his belief in the free coinage of silver, President Andrews resigned, though the resignation for a time was recalled and not acquiesced in. He subsequently accepted the superintendency of the Chicago schools. This position he resigned in 1900, and accepted the presidency of Nebraska University. He is the author of a number of standard text-books on history, constitutional and general, and on economics.