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Andrews (ELISHA BENJAMIN an American)

ELISHA BENJAMIN, an American educator, born in Hinsdale, N. H., Jan. 10, 1844; he was graduated at Brown University, 1870, and Newton Theological Seminary, 1874; President of Brown University in 1889-1898; became Superintendent of Public Schools in Chicago in 1898, and Chancellor of the University of Nebraska in 1900; author of a "History of the United States," "An Honest Dollar: a Plea for Bimetallism," etc. He died in 1917.

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