Elisha B. Andrews

(1844-1917) lived in Lincoln. Educator, clergyman, college president, known for contributing significantly to the development of Denison University, Brown University, and the University of Nebraska and for drawing the public's attention nationwide to the issue of academic freedom. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, November 9, 1947, p. C-26 and Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 1978 ) 39-40 and American National Biography, Vol 1 (1999) 494-496.

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