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ANDREWS.ANDREWS. anatomy. In 1854 and 1855 he was professor of comparative anatomy and demonstrator of human anatomy, resigning to accept a position in the Rust medical college. He went to Chicago in 1856, where he became a prominent surgeon. He aided in founding the Chicago medical college, and was made professor of the principles and practices of surgery and of clinical and military surgery in that institution. At the outbreak of the civil war, he joined the 1st Illinois light artillery as hospital surgeon. After the war he visited the chief European hospitals. He was surgeon-in-chief of Mercy hospital, consulting surgeon of various charitable institutions, and taught the science of surgery in the Northwestern university medical school. He made many valuable improvements in surgical instruments and his original investigations led to the use of free incision, digital exploration, and disinfection of lumbar abscesses, which treatment had been supposed unsafe. He published a work, "Rectal and Aural Surgery," which passed through several editions. He was for many years president of the Chicago academy of science, and president of the Illinois state medical society. In 1881 he received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Michigan. ANDREWS, Edward Gayer, M. E. bishop, was born at New Hartford, N. Y., August 7, 1825. He was educated at the Wesleyan university at Middletown, Conn., from which institution he was graduated in 1847, and entered upon his work as a Methodist preacher. He was ordained deacon in 1848 and elder in 1850. In 1864 he went to Cazenovia, N. Y., where for two years he was a professor, and from 1866 to 1874 was principal of the seminary. He was a member of the Oneida conference in 1848, and of the New York East conference in 1864. In 1872 he was elected bishop and ordained at Brooklyn, N. Y. He visited foreign missions in 1894. He received the degree of LL.D. from Allegheny, and from Wesleyan university in 1900. ANDREWS, Elisha Benjamin, educator, was born in Hinsdale, N.H., Jan. 10, 1844, son of Erastus and Almira (Bartlett) Andrews. In boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and his opportunities for early school training were limited. His ambition to prepare himself for college was changed into a patriotic desire to serve his country, when in 1861 President Lincoln called for seventy-five thousand volunteers. A boy of sixteen he enlisted as a soldier in the 4th Connecticut infantry, subsequently the 1st Connecticut heavy artillery. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant in 1863. In the summer of 1864, at the siege of Petersburg, Va., he received a wound that destroyed the sight of his left eye, and incapacitated him for further active service, and he received an honorable discharge in October, 1864. He resumed his studies at Power's institute and the Wesleyan academy, and matriculated at Brown university in 1866, graduating in 1870. He was appointed principal of the Connecticut literary institution, Suffield, Conn., remaining there two years. He entered Newton theological seminary in 1872, was graduated in 1874, and became pastor of the First Baptist church at Beverly, Mass., resigning in 1875 to accept the presidency of Denison university, Granville, O. His success there led to his election to the chair of homiletics in the Newton theological seminary, in 1879. This position he resigned in 1882 to accept the professorship of political economy and history in Brown university, which position he held until 1888, spending one year of the time in Germany at the universities of Berlin and Munich. In 1888 he became professor of political economy and public finance in Cornell university. His varied attainments and his fame as an educator made him a prominent candidate for the presidency of Brown university, and upon the resignation of President Robinson in 1889 he was unanimously chosen, and served in 1889-98. He was superintendent of the public schools of Chicago, Ill., 1898-1900, and on Sept. 22, 1900, accepted the chancellorship of the University of Nebraska. He was one of the commissioners sent by the United States government to the monetary conference at Brussels in 1892. He received the degree of D.D. from Colby in 1884, and that of LL.D. from the University of Nebraska in 1884, from Brown in 1900, and from the University of Chicago in 1901. Among his published works are: "Institutes of Our Constitutional History" (1887); "Institutes of General History" (1889); "Institutes of Economics" (1889); "Eternal Words," a volume of sermons (1894); "Wealth and Moral Law" (1894); "History of the United States" (2 vols., 1894); "An Honest Dollar, a Plea for Bimetallism" (1894); "History of the United States during the Last Quarter Century" (2 vols., 1896). He became a member of the Rhode Island historical society. He was married, Nov. 25, 1870, to Ella Anna Allen.