Denison University - Adytum Yearbook (Granville, OH)

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Biographical Sketches of the Faculty. REV. GALUSHA ANDERSON, D.D., President, and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. Dr. Anderson was born in Bergen, Genesee Co , N. Y., March 7, 1832. His father, though born in this country, was of pure Scot- tish descent, and was reared in the strict forms of the Scotch Presby- terians, and brought up his own children according to the same strict principles. Until the age of seventeen he was engaged upon his father ' s farm, with such intervals of study as the district school of the place allowed. At this age, having yielded to convictions of duty upon the subject of becoming a minister and having given up a pre- vious determination to be a lawyer, he entered Alfred Academy in Alleghany Co., to prepare for college. In 1851, he entered the Sophomore class of the University of Rochester. His course in the University was an unusually successful one. He took the prize in Sophomore debate, the first prize in Sophomore declamation, had the place of honor at the Junior exhibition, and on behalf of the stu- dents of the University deHvered the address to Dr. A. C. Kendrick, upon his return from Greece. Also he was the first Rochester alum- nus to receive the degree of D.D., from that University. Graduating in 1854, he entered the Theological Seminary at the same place and from it graduated in 1856. In the autumn of that year he was or- dained as pastor of the Baptist Church in Janesville, Wis. In the fall of 1858, he accepted the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church of St. Louis. Here he remained until 1866, holding his post during all the agitations of the war, and keeping his church strongly loyal. In Numbers before names refer to those on engraving. 4