The Biographical Dictionary of America/Andrews, Edward Gayer

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.