ELISHA BENJAMIN ANDREWS
\ɪlˈiːʃə bˈɛnd͡ʒəmɪn ˈandɹuːz], \ɪlˈiːʃə bˈɛndʒəmɪn ˈandɹuːz], \ɪ_l_ˈiː_ʃ_ə b_ˈɛ_n_dʒ_ə_m_ɪ_n ˈa_n_d_ɹ_uː_z]\
Sort: Oldest first
-
An American historical and economical writer; born at Hinsdale, N. H., Jan. 10, 1844. After serving in the Civil War, finishing his college and theological education, preaching about a year at Beverly, Mass., being president of a university in Ohio, professor in Newton Theological Institute and Brown and Cornell Universities, he became president of Brown University (1889). He went as one of the United States commissioners to the monetary conference at Brussels in 1892. He has written: "Institutes of our Constitutional History, English and American" (1887); "Institutes of General History" (1889); "Institutes of Economics" (1889); "History of the United States"; "History of the Last Quarter-Century in the U.S".; "History of U.S. in Our Own Times".
By Charles Dudley Warner
Word of the day
hydromorphic
- [Greek] Structurally adapted to an aquatic environment, as organs of water plants.