ANDREWS, ELISHA BENJAMIN Ameri can educator, was born in Hinsdale, N.H., on Jan. 1 o, 1844. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the Union army and was woundea, losing an eye, at Petersburg, in 1864. He graduated from Brown university in 1870 and from Newton theological insti tution, Newton Centre, Mass., in 1874. From 1875 to 1879 he was president of Denison university, Granville, Ohio. In 82 he was professor of homiletics in Newton theological institution and from 1882 to 1888 he was professor of history and political economy in Brown university. He became professor of political economy at Cornell university in 1888, and in 1889 was made president of Brown university. In 1897, because of criticism by the trustees of his advocacy of free silver, he resigned, but soon withdrew his resignation. He served as superintendent of the public schools of Chicago from 1898 to 1900, when he was chosen chancellor of the University of Nebraska, from which he retired as chancellor emeritus in 1909. He died at Interlaken, Fla., on Oct. 3o, 1917.
In addition to text-books on history and economics, his published works include An Honest Dollar (1889) ; Wealth and Moral Law (1894) ; History of the United States (1894) ; and The History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, (1896), as The United States in Our Own Time (19o3).