GALUSHA ANDERSON graduated with high honors from the University of Rochester in 1854 and from Rochester Theological Seminary two years later. Although his father was a strict Presbyterian, Galusha became distinguished as a preacher of the Baptist denomination.

Galusha Anderson

He was ordained pastor and took charge of the Baptist church at Janesville, WI, in 1856. His next pulpit was in St. Louis where he was the pastor of the Second Baptist church from 1858-66, during the tumultuous times of the Civil War. His beliefs were very much pro-union and anti-slavery, as described in his book, A Border City During the Civil War, published in 1908.

He was called in 1866 from his Church in St. Louis to the professorship of homiletics, Church polity, and pastoral duties, in the Newton (MA) Theological Institute. From 1873 to 1878 he took charge of the Strong Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn. In 1878 he became professor in the theological seminary that later became part of the University of Chicago system.

In 1885 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Salem, MA, and was called from there to be President of Denison University (1887-1890). In 1890, he resigned the presidency and accepted a professorship in the Baptist Theological Seminary, Chicago.

The University of Chicago was founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1891. In 1892, Galusha accepted the chair of homilectics in the Divinity School of the University, and in 1906 professor-emeritus.

He returned back to Newton, where he lived with his son. He died at the home of his son in Newton, July 20, 1918.