The New Student's Reference Work/Gunsaulus, Frank Wakeley

Gunsau′lus, Frank Wakeley, a Congregational clergyman and educator, was born in Ohio, Jan. 1, 1856; graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1875; and was ordained to the Methodist ministry. He has been pastor of Congregational churches in Columbus, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; and Chicago, Illinois. In 1899 he accepted the pastorate of Central Church, Chicago, the famous independent church of David Swing, and for some years before he had also been the first president of Armour Institute of Technology, resigning this post in 1901. He likewise is an eloquent and popular platform-speaker, his oratory being of the Spanish or rhetorical class, and is the author of the valuable historical romance Monk and Knight, a tale of the Renaissance and Reformation.