Elon Galusha

Center Shaftsbury Cemetery
Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont
Jonas Galusha (1753-1834) Son-in-law of Thomas Chittenden; brother-in-law of Martin Chittenden. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., February 11, 1753. Presidential Elector for Vermont, 1808; Governor of Vermont, 1809-13, 1815-20. Died September 24, 1834. Interment at Center Shaftsbury Cemetery.

Vermont Governors
1809-1813..........Jonas Galusha....................Democratic Republican
1813-1815..........Martin Chittenden...............Federalist
1815-1820..........Jonas Galusha.....................Democratic Republican

Gov. Jonas Galusha & Mary Chittenden had son Elon Galusha b. 18 Jun 1790; d. 6 Jan 1856

Rochester, Monroe, N. Y.
Daily Democrat
Oct. 8, 1834
DIED
In Shaftsbury, Vt. On Wednesday the 1st. inst. the hon. Jonas GALUSHA, aged 83 years. Mr. GALUSHA was for many years Governor of this State, a member of the Council for nearly twenty years, Judge of the Supreme Court, and Sheriff; all of which he filled with honor to himself and the State. He was a firm and unwavering Democrat of the Jefferson school--honest and upright in all his actions. He was a veteran of the Revolution, and was in the Battle of Bennington - Bennington Gazette.
Father of Rev. Elon GALUSHA, of this city.

Baptists, Congregationalists, the Free Church, and Slavery: .
An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, on December 23, 1845.
Belfast News Letter, December 26, 1845 and Belfast Northern Whig, December 25, 1845.
Citation Information: Frederick Douglass, "Baptists, Congregationalists, the Free Church, and Slavery: An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, on December 23, 1845." Belfast News Letter, December 26, 1845 and Belfast Northern Whig, December 25, 1845. "I beg now to introduce to your notice a little of the doings of one or two of the Churches of America, and I shall begin with the Baptist Church. (Hear.) This Church is congregational in its organization and government, but its congregations are united by what is called a Triennial Convention, the object of which is to spread the Gospel among the heathen. At the last but one of these conventions, in the City of Baltimore, the Rev. Dr. Johnston, of South Carolina, presided, and he on this occasion asserted the doctrine that when any institution becomes established by law, a Christian man may innocently engage to uphold it. The President of the Baptist convention is a slaveholder himself. He is a man-stealer. (Hear.) The Secretary of the convention is another man-stealer, and most of the other office-bearers were manstealerswere thieves. During the progress of the business, there was one man in one of the committees, who was found to be an Abolitionist Elon Galusha. This man is now, I trust, in Heaven. He dared to say that a slave was a man, and that slavery ought to be abolished. For this, the members of his church cut him off(hear)though he was a man of talent and of unblemished character, and, as a minister of the gospel, unparalleled."

Thy friend,
JOSEPH STURGE.
New York, 6th. Month, 30th. 1841.
The Baptist convention alluded to in the foregoing letter was one whose proceedings I regarded with considerable interest, for it had been generally understood that the ministers delegated from the South, as well as some of those from the Northern States, intended to exclude abolitionists from every office on the missionary board, and especially to remove my friend, ELON GALUSHA, a distinguised Baptist minister, from the station of vice-president, for the offence of attending the London Antislavery Convention, and more particularly for supporting . . . resolutions of that assembly. . . .

On entering the meeting, we found the question was already before them, previous to balloting for the officers for the ensuing three years. The pro-slavery party were anxious to prevent all discussion, but some on the other side proposed questions which compelled their notice. . . . The enquiry becoming more searching, an expedient was resorted to, which, though quite novel to me, was, I am told, not unfrequently adopted when discussions assume a shape not quite satisfactory to the controlling powers of a synod. It was proposed that they should pray, and then proceed at once to the ballot. The ministers called 37 upon were R. FULLER and ELON GALUSHA, who were considered to represent the opposite sides of the discussion. The former individual is a large slave-holder, an influential leader in his denomination, and had canvassed and condemned ELON GALUSHA'S views and conduct in the public newspapers. I must avow, this whole proceeding was little calculated to remove my objection to the practice of calling upon any individual to offer supplication in a public assembly. After prayer had been offered, they proceeded to the ballot, and we left the meeting, deeply impressed with the profanation of employing the most solemn act of devotion to serve the exigencies of controversy.

In the evening I met a number of the anti-slavery members of the Convention, from whom I learned that the vote had excluded ELON GALUSIIA and all other known abolitionists, from official connection with the board, by a hundred and twenty-four to a hundred and seventeen, which being a much smaller majority than was expected, they considered the result a triumph rather than a defeat.

Jonas Galusha
GALUSHA, Jonas, statesman, born in Norwalk, Connecticut, 11 February, 1753; died in Shaftsbury, Vermont, 24 September, 1834. He removed to Shaftsbury in 1775, and in the battle of Bennington led two companies. Besides filling many minor offices, he was councillor for thirteen years, judge of the Supreme Court for two years, and governor of the state from 1809 till 1813, and again from 1815 till 1820. In 1808, 1820, and 1824 he was a presidential elector. He was president of the constitutional conventions of 1814 and 18'22. In his religious sentiments Governor Galusha took an interest in the affairs of the Baptist Church, of which he was a member.--His son, Elon, clergyman, born in Shaftsbury, Vermont ; died in Lock-port, New York, 13 June, 1859, was ordained to the Baptist ministry in early life, and served as pastor of Churches in Whitesborough, Utica, Rochester, and Lockport, New York At one time he was president of the Baptist missionary convention of New York. He was an attractive preacher, and one of the most widely known and esteemed among the Baptist ministers of his generation