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Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was born in Chesterville, Ohio, United States on January 1, 1856, was the son of Joseph Gunsaulus, of Spanish ancestry, and Mary Hawley Gunsaulus, his wife, whose forebears were Puritan and who herself was an ardent worker in the Methodist church.
From the public schools Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus went to Ohio Wesleyan University where he was the most popular student of his day.
In 1875, after receiving the degree of A. B. , he was ordained in the Methodist ministry and began preaching on a Methodist circuit with headquarters at Harrisburg, Ohio.
In 1875, after receiving the degree of A. B. , Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was ordained in the Methodist ministry and began preaching on a Methodist circuit with headquarters at Harrisburg, Ohio. As a Methodist preacher Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus served at Worthington, Ohio, 1876-78, and Chillicothe, Ohio, 1879. In this year he entered the Congregational ministry.
Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was pastor of the Eastwood Church and later the High Street Congregational Church in Columbus, Ohio, 1879-81, minister of the Congregational Church in Newtonville, Massachusetts, 1881-85, during which time he became a friend of Phillips Brooks, and pastor of the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland, 1885-87.
He was pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church, Chicago, from 1887 until 1899, when he succeeded Newell Dwight Hillis in the pulpit of the independent Central Church, to which for twenty years his preaching drew great crowds.
One Sunday morning in Plymouth Church, Chicago, the young minister chose as his theme "What I would do if I had a million dollars, ” a subject used that day by many preachers of the city.
Gunsaulus said he would found an institute for technical training where the poorest boy could have an opportunity equal to that of the richest. At the close of the sermon Philip Danlorth Armou spoke to his pastor about putting into practice what Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus had been preaching. Accordingly they established the Armour Institute, later called the Armour Institute of Technology, which was opened in 1893. Gunsaulus was president from the beginning until his death. Without technical training in engineering or education, he was a leader, emphasizing the development of personality and preparation for performance
In 1919 he resigned his pastorate to give all his time and strength to the Institute. Besides preaching in his own pulpit Gunsaulus gave many lectures throughout the country, including courses at Johns Hopkins University, on “The Messages of the Great English Poets”; at Chicago Theological Seminary, on “The Higher Ministries of Recent English Poetry”; at McCormick Theological Seminary, on “The Influence of Music in the Church”; at Yale Dignity School in 1882, and again in 1911 when delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures.
From 1912 he was professorial lecturer at the University of Chicago.
His summer lectures were undertaken in part to secure funds wherewith to purchase objects of artistic or historical worth to bestow on educational institutions.
By the time he was twenty-three he had published the first of his own books, a volume of sermons. His love of music and poetry bore fruit in three volumes of verse: Loose Leaves of Song ( 1888); Phidias and Other Poems (1891); Songs of Night and Day (1896). His interest in the Renaissance found expression in a historical novel, Monk and Knight. Other books were: Transfiguration of Christ (1886, 1907); William Ewart Gladstone (1898); The Man of Galilee (1899); Paths to Power (1905); Paths to the City of God (1906); The Higher Ministries of Recent English Po-
etry (1907); The Minister and the Spiritual Life (1911); Martin Luther and the Morning
Hour in Europe (1917); Prayers (1922). His main interest always was religion.
A great cleric, as Dr. Lyman Abbot once declared, must be a great citizen. In
Gunsaulus' parish were included not only Central Church, but Chicago, and the nation, and other countries.
Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus established the Armour Institute, later called the Armour Institute of Technology, which was opened in 1893, moreover he was president from the beginning until his death. Without technical training in engineering or education, he was a leader, emphasizing the development of personality and preparation for performance. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman declared him the American divine who best understood and made articulate the religious aspirations of his country.
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He was a member of the Congregational Church.
Long a member of the Political Action Committee of the Union League Club, he showed great common sense and humor in its discussions and activities. He appealed for
Cuba's freedom in 1895 and pleaded for fair treatment of the Philippines and Porto Rico in
1900; he rebuked an attempt to raise the religious issue in the Taft campaign of 1908 and during the World War patriotically spoke for American policies. As preacher and civic leader in Chicago for thirty years he held a place like that of Phillips Brooks in Boston or Henry Ward Beecher in Brooklyn.
One of his gifts to the University of Chicago was Mendelssohn’s manuscript of Elijah, a significant item, for Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus found great joy in this music as rendered by his choir and built on it one of his greatest sermons and services.
Sometimes he wrote hymns for special occasions. His Christmas card frequently took the form of a Christmas hymn with music by the director of his choir and words by himself.
Quotations:
“If you will give five years of your life, I will give the money, and we will do it together. ”
“This is where I get my sermons. ”
"The only pulpit that men
respect permanently pours forth the music of
redemption. "
Six feet in height and weighing over two hundred pounds, with a large chest, a firmly set head, and powerful vocal equipment, Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus had an imposing presence made still more effective by restrained yet dramatic gestures and vocal cadences now exquisite in poetical pathos, now thunderous in prophecy.
His avocations were collecting paintings, drawings, prints, pottery, textiles, manuscripts, rare books, poetry and music.
His collections of Wedgwood and Near-Eastern pottery are in the Gunsaulus Gallery of the Chicago Art Institute which was presented and named by W. H. Miner of New York.
Books were a special joy to him.
He haunted McClurg’s rare book section, fondly named by Eugene Field, the “Saints and Sinners Corner” —the saints being the Rev. F. M. Bristol, the Rev. John Stryker, and the Rev. F. W. Gunsaulus.
He presented the Gunsaulus Collection of Incunabula to the University of Chicago, and encouraged many others to be generous in donations to the library.
Without technical training in engineering or education, Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was a leader, emphasizing the development of personality and preparation for performance.
His main interest always was religion.
Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was among the earliest to appreciate the work of Josef Israels and Mauve and at one time owned the two Mauves now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His collections of Wedgwood and Near-Eastern pottery are in the Gunsaulus Gallery of the Chicago Art Institute which was presented and named by W. H. Miner of New York.
He was a prominent figure in Chicago’s social, educational, and civic improvements. His extraordinary energy, masterful oratory skills, and intellectual talents influenced the city’s spiritual, educational, cultural, and civic development for decades.
On September 20, 1876, Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus married Georgiana Long of Holly Meadows, West Virginia.
