The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anderson, Martin Brewer

ANDERSON, Martin Brewer, educator, was born at Brunswick, Me., Feb. 12, 1815. His father was of Scotch-Irish descent and his mother of English origin, a woman of marked intellectual qualities. After being graduated from Waterville college in 1840, he studied for a year in the theological Seminary at Newton, Mass. In 1841 he became tutor of Latin, Greek, and mathematics at Waterville college, where he was later appointed professor of rhetoric and lecturer on modern history, remaining there until 1850, when he removed to New York city and assumed the editorship of the New York Recorder, a weekly Baptist Journal. He was president of the University of Rochester, 1853-'88; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy, 1853-'87, and of political economy, 1887-'90. He was president of the American Baptist home missionary society, 1864; of the missionary union, 1869-'72; trustee of Vassar college, 1864-'90; trustee of the University of Rochester, 1887-'90, and member of the New York board of charities, 1868-'81. He received the degree LL.D. from Colby, 1853, and from the University of the State of New York, 1883, and L.H.D. from Columbia, 1887. He bequeathed his property to the University of Rochester. He married Elizabeth Gilbert, of New York. See his life by Asahel C. Kendrick (1895). His writings were edited by William C. Marcy (1895). He died at Lake Helen, Fla., Feb. 26, 1890.