Anderson, Rufus
missionary, author, was born Aug. 17, 1796, in North Yarmouth, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1818, and subsequently graduated from the Andover seminary. He devised the Christian Almanac, which is still continued under the title of the Family Christian Almanac, which has a circulation of nearly half a million copies annually. In 1826 he was ordained a clergyman; and has been a missionary in various countries. He was the author of Memoir of Catharine Brown, which had a large circulation both in America and in England. He was secretary of the American board of foreign missions in 1824-74. He was also the author of Foreign Missions, Their Relations and Claims; History of the American Board's Missions in the Sandwich Islands, Turkey and India, Peloponnesus and Greek Islands. He died May 30, 1880.