Anderson, Galusha
LL. D., clergyman, educator, college president, was born March 7, 1832, in Bergen, N. Y. In 1854 he graduated from the university of Rochester; and from the Rochester theological seminary two years later. He was pastor of the first baptist church of Janesville, Wis.; of the second baptist church of St. Louis, Mo.; of the Strong place baptist church of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and of the second baptist church of Chicago.
For eight years he was president of the university of Chicago; and for three years was president of the Denison university, Ohio. For seven years he filled the chair of sacred rhetoric, church polity and pastoral duties in the Newton theological seminary, Mass.; and now fills the same chair in the divinity school of the university of Chicago. He was in St.
Louis during the civil war, and preached the first loyal sermon in that city in April, 1861; and he was one of a band of loyal men who succeeded in keeping Missouri in the Union. His writings have appeared in the North American Review and various standard works.