Elisha Benjamin Andrews

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elisha Benjamin Andrews (January 10, 1844 – October 30, 1917) was an American economist and educator, born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire.

He served in Connecticut regiments during the Civil War. Graduating from Brown University in 1870 and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1874, he preached for one year and then was president of Denison University, 1875-79. He was professor of homiletics at Newton Theological Institution, 1879-82; professor of history and political economy at Brown University, 1882-88; professor of political economy and finance at Cornell University, 1888-89; and he served as the president of Brown University from 1889 until 1898. He resigned as president of Brown in 1897 because of criticism by trustees of his advocacy of free silver but at that time withdrew his resignation.

He was superintendent of schools, Chicago, 1898-1900, and then became chancellor of the University of Nebraska. In 1892 he was a United States commissioner to the Brussels monetary conference and was a strong supporter of international bimetallism. He became a member of the corporation of Brown University in 1900 and was made president of the Association of State Universities in 1904. He retired from the University of Nebraska as chancellor emeritus January 1, 1909.[1] Andrews died at his home in Interlachen, Florida in 1917.

Andrews published many college textbooks on history and economics; also:

An Honest Dollar (1889; third edition, 1894)
Wealth and Moral Law (1894)
History of the United States (two volumes, 1894)
History of the United States (six volumes, 1903-12)
The History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States, 1870-95 (1896; revised under the title The United States in Our Own Time, 1903)