American educator, born at Hinsdale, NH, on the 10th of January 1844. He went to the defense of the Union in 1861, rose to the rank of second lieutenant and lost an eye at Petersburg. He graduated at Brown University in 1870, and entered Newton Theological Seminary, where he prepared for the ministry. He was ordained a Baptist minister, and for four years engaged in pastoral work. He then became connected with Denison University, and later was called to Brown University as professor of history and political economy. In 1888 he accepted the chair of political economy and finance at Cornell University, but had been there only one year when he was elected president of Brown University. President Andrews was one of the commissioners representing the United States at the Brussels bimetallic conference in 1892. He is the author of several standard textbooks.
