Andrews, Elisha Benjamin
ANDREWS, ELISHA BENJAMIN: Baptist; b.
at Hinsdale, N. H., Jan. 10, 1844. He was educated at Brown University (B.A., 1870), Newton
Theological Institution (1874), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1879-80), and also
studied in the universities of Berlin and Munich
(1882-83). He served in the Union army in the
Civil War, being promoted from private to second
lieutenant. He was principal of the Connecticut
Literary Institute, Suffield, Conn., 1870-72, and
pastor of the First Baptist Church, Beverly, Mass.,
1874-75. In the latter year he was appointed
president of Denison University, Granville, Ill.,
and held this position until 1879, when he accepted
a call to Newton Theological Institution as professor
of homiletics and practical theology. In 1882 he
became professor of history and political economy
at Brown University, and in 1888 of political
economy and finance at Cornell. In 1889 he was
chosen president of Brown University, where he
remained until 1898. He then became superintendent of the Chicago schools until 1900, when
he was made chancellor of the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, a position which he still occupies.
He was a member of the United States delegation
to the Brussels International Monetary Commission in 1892, and is also a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion, and the
American Economic Association. In theology he
is a liberal evangelical Baptist. His works include
Brief Institutes of Constitutional History, English
and American (New York, 1886); Brief institutes
of General History (1887); Institutes of Economics
(1889); The Problem of Cosmology (1891); Eternal
Words (1893; a volume of sermons); Wealth and
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Moral Law (1894); An Honest Dollar, with seven
other Essays on Bimetallism (1894); History of
the United States (2 vols., 1894; revised and enlarged, 5 vols., 1905); and History of the United States in the last Quarter Century (1896). He has also published Outlines of the Principles
of History (New York, 1893), a translation of J. G.
Droysen’s Grundris der Historik (3d ed., Leipsic, 1882).