Background
Anderson, William Ketcham was born on April 27, 1888 in New York City. Son of Bishop William Franklin and Lulah (Ketcham) Anderson.
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William Ketcham Anderson
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Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1910, Doctor of Divinity, 1930. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1913. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1914.
Career
Taught high chool, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1910-1911. Pastor, Carpenter, Wyoming, 1912. Ordained Methodist ministry deacon, 1915, elder, 1917.
Pastor Ohio State University, 1915-1918.
Organizing secretary Ohio Council of Churches, 1919, and its 1st secretary, 1919-1920. Field secretary for Ohio of Inter-Church World Movement, 1920.
Pastor Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1920-1926, First Church, Butler, 1926-1928, Franklin Saint Church, Johnstown, 1928-1940. Education director Comnn. on Ministerial Training, Methodist Church, since October 1940.
Member of staff, Board of Education, Methodist Church.
Achievements
Membership
Member commissions on worship and music, and the ministry, Federal Council of Churches. Member staff Ohio branch Council National Defense, 1917. Member American Hymn Society.
Mason.
Club: Pocasset (Massachusetts) Golf.
Connections
Married Fanny East. Spencer, December 19, 1916. Children: Almeda Jane (Mistress C. Dudley Ingerson), Elizabeth Cushman, William F. II, Josephine Spencer.
