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Subject: [ANDERSON-L] DR. WILLIAM MADISON ANDERSON (SC, TN, TX)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:31:49 EDT

SOURCE: I have a better copy of a newspaper clipping that I found in Box
175, Folder 10, of Mrs. William Anderson Orr's research at the Alabama
State Archives at Montgomery, Alabama. (This adds and corrects some
information I posted on this June 1, 2001.) Box 175 is labeled "Miscellaneous
Items, Christmas Cards, Newspaper Clippings". There is no date on the
newspaper clipping from the Birmingham News but I think that Mrs. Orr, of
Calhoun County, Alabama, did most of her research in the 1930s.

Dr. William Madison Anderson was a native of South Carolina. His father,
one of the most distinguished ministers in the Presbyterian church, was
pastor at Rock Hill Church. "That was his first pastorate," said Dr.
Anderson. "My mother, a Tennessean, as his young bride went there to live,
and it was there I was born." Dr. Egbert Smith, well known as a Presbyterian
minister, was his father's co-worker at Rock Hill Church.

"The church is not an advisory board to people; it is a place where the Word
of God is supposed to be preached." "The speaker was Dr. William Madison
Anderson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas, who was
the guest of Dr. Will A. Alexander, pastor of South Highland Presbyterian
(Birmingham) this past week."

"Dr. Anderson is the third generation of his family which has followed the
ministry. He is one of seven boys in his family, and after removing to Texas
he was married to Miss Nancy Lee Gossett, whose father is president of the
Federal Land Bank, Houston. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson have two lovely young
daughters."

"I had the conviction that I ought to become a preacher and I followed that
conviction. In the meantime Dr. Anderson's father became pastor of the
historic
old First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, and he entered Vanderbilt. But
when his father was later called to Dallas, he did not return to Vanderbilt,
but
became a student at the university in Sherman, Texas."

Dr. William Madison Anderson graduated from the seminary in Austin, Texas
in 1914. When his father's health failed, he was asked to take the pastorate
of the First Presbyterian Church in Dallas. He served eight years until his
father's death.

Bill

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