(12 May 1823-22 April 1908), clergyman and author. Born at Lupendamph, Abernethy, Strathspey, Scotland. He emigrated to Canada in 1839, and was sent to GC as a Free Church Presbyterian catechist. In 1854 he was ordained as a minister and inducted as minister of Lancaster and Dalhousie Mills Free Church Presbyterian congregations. Under his pastorship there was an important religious revival in 1864 and 1865 which corresponds in time with the Great Revival in the church of the Rev. Daniel Gordon. The Rev. Daniel Gordon’s son who wrote under the pen name of Ralph Connor describes the Great Revival in his Glengarry novels. The way in which one revival influenced the other is now difficult to estimate but presumably some influence existed. In April 1869 the congregation at Lancaster was separated from the congregation at Dalhousie Mills and Anderson remained minister of Lancaster only. In 1870 he became a minister at Tiverton, Ont., and served there till his retirement in 1894. His autobiography Reminiscences and Incidents (1910) edited by his son the Rev. J.D. Anderson is beautifully written and contains an important description of the revival in Glengarry County with some observations local social history. He was married in 1847 to Margaret Kennedy (d. 1906).

Anderson, Reminiscences and Incidents (there is a review of this work Cornwall Freeholder 11 Feb. 1910) * MacMillan, Kirk: index * MacGillivray & Ross 88-94 (portrait), 685 * Ross, Lancaster, 154 * jubilee as minister, Glengarry News 7 April 1905 * his death and his wife’s remembered, 20 Years Ago column, CF 3 May 1928, 26 Aug. 1926, resp.