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William Anderson was born of Scotch-Irish ancestry on January 31, 1813 in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States, the son of Eli and Martha (Anderson) Scott.
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William Anderson was born of Scotch-Irish ancestry on January 31, 1813 in Bedford County, Tennessee, United States, the son of Eli and Martha (Anderson) Scott.
His determination to gain an education led him to employ numerous expedients. Needing books where books were few, on one occasion he entered into an agreement with a neighbor who owned a Greek New Testament to buy the volume for three days' plowing.
entered Cumberland College at Princeton, from which he was graduated in 1833. At Princeton (New Jersey) he entered Theological Seminary.
Licensed to preach when seventeen, William Anderson Scott did missionary work for about a year. He was ordained, May 17, 1835, by the Presbytery of Louisiana and then served as a missionary in Louisiana and Arkansas (1835 - 36) and as principal of the Female Academy at Winchester, Tennessee(1836 - 38).
For the next two years he had charge of the Hermitage Church, on the Tennessee estate of Andrew Jackson, also serving as president of Nashville Female Seminary; from 1840 to 1842 he supplied a church at Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
His pastoral eminence began in 1842 when he commenced a ministry of twelve years at the First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans. Early in 1854 a group of San Francisco men invited him to that city to organize a church. Arriving there in May, he was instrumental in forming Calvary Church for which a building was erected in the heart of the then semi-lawless city. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, although his aggressive labors had made Calvary Church "the greatest force for righteousness on the Pacific coast", in October he departed for England.
After his return he served the Forty-second Street Church, New York, a congregation of Southern sympathizers, from 1863 to 1870, and then went back to San Francisco, where he organized St. John's Church, which had as a nucleus numerous old Southern families. For many years it was one of the city's strong churches.
Scott's educational work in the West had commenced when in 1856 he helped found City College, San Francisco, an institution which survived for twenty years. San Francisco Theological Seminary, now at San Anselmo was established in 1871, it at first occupied two rooms of City College. Scott was a director until his death. Scott remained actively connected with the seminary, as well as with the St. John's pastorate, until his death, at San Francisco.
He was the author of ten or more religious books which had a considerable circulation throughout the United States. In 1858 he was elected moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly (Old School). He died in 1885.
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At the age of fifteen Scott united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
On January 19, 1836, Scott married Ann Nicholson of Kilkeel, Ireland.