The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anderson, Joseph (clergyman)

ANDERSON, Joseph, clergyman, was born in the Highlands of Scotland, Dec. 16, 1836. He removed with his parents to America in 1842, and afterwards resided in Astoria, N. Y., and in New York city. He passed from a New York public school to the College of the city of New York, and was graduated in 1854. He studied at the Union theological seminary and was ordained by the third presbytery of New York in 1858, pastor of the First Congregational church of Stamford, Conn. In 1861 he was called from Stamford to become pastor of the First church in Norwalk. In 1864 he went to Bath, Me., and in February, 1865, began his ministry with the First church in Waterbury, Conn. He was twice moderator of the general association, and once of the general conference, of the congregational church; received the degree of D.D. from Yale in 1878, and became a member of its corporation in 1884. He made a study of the American Indian, and published "The Churches of Mattatuck" (1892); "History of Waterbury, Conn.," (1893-96) and historical papers.