Martin Brewer Anderson, LL. D., an American educator, born in Brunswick. Me., Feb. 12, 1815. He graduated in 1840 at Waterville college, Me., where, after studying about a year in the theological seminary at Newton, Mass., he became a tutor of Latin, Greek, and mathematics. In 1843 he was appointed professor of rhetoric, but continued, to give instruction in Latin, and organized and taught a course of modern history. In 1850 he resigned his professorship, and became proprietor and editor of the "New York Recorder,11 a weekly Baptist journal. In 1853 he was called to the presidency of the then newly founded university of Rochester, which position he still holds (1872). In 1868 he was offered the presidency of Brown university at Providence, R. I., but declined to accept it. He has preached much, though never ordained as a clergyman, and has contributed literary and philosophical articles to various public journals.