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Anderson, James W. D – Anderson, Oscar David

Anderson, James W. D

clergyman, lecturer, poet, was born March 3, 1859, in Coffey county, Kan. He is a successful methodist clergyman and lecturer of Kansas. He is the author of a work entitled The Kansas Methodist Pulpit; and is also the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Anderson, John Jacob

educator, author, was born in 1821, in New York city. He is an educator of New York city who prepared a number of historical text books, among which are A History of France; and Common School History of the United States.

Anderson, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 16, 1836, in Scotland. He has been pastor of congregational churches in Stamford, Norwalk and Waterbury, Conn.; at the latter since 1865. In 1877 and 1890 he was moderator of the general association of Connecticut, and in 1878 of the congregational churches of the Connecticut general conference.

He is the author of The Church of Mattatuck; and History of Waterbury.

Anderson, Joseph H

congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative in congress from that state, from 1843 to 1847.

Anderson, Joseph W

railroad president, was born Feb. 5, 1837, in York county, Pa. Since 1895 he has been president of the Stewartstown railroad of Pennsylvania.

Anderson, Josephus

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Oct. 7, 1829, in Hanover county, Va. He is one of the foremost clergymen of the methodist episcopal church south; and has held the highest offices in the gift of that denomination. For the past ten years he has been editor of the Florida Christian Advocate of Leesburg, Fla.

Anderson, Josiah M

congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from the third district in that state, from 1849 to 1852; and was delegate to the peace congress of 1861.

Anderson, Lucien

lawyer, congressman, was born June, 1824, in Mayfield, Ky. He received a good English education; adopted the profession of the law; was a presidential elector in 1852; served for two terms as a member of the Kentucky legislature. In 1863 was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-eighth congress. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1864, and a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866.

Andern, Mary

actress, was born July 28, 1859, in Sacramento, Cal. Her remarkable beauty and grace aided materially in making her a social as well as a dramatic success. In 1890 she married Mr. Navarro of New York, and retired from the stage.

Anderson, Melville Best

educator, translator, and critic, was born March 28, 1851, in Kalamazoo, Mich. He is a professor of English literature in Stanford university, California. He is the translator of Victor Hugo's William Shakespeare, and several other works, including Paul and Virginia. He is noted as a literary critic, and for many years has been a contributor to The Dial.

Anderson, Ophelia Brown

actress, was born July 24, 1813, in Boston.

She was the daughter of Mrs. Pelby, an actress, and appeared on the stage in Boston, when two years old, as Cora's child in Pizarro. She became a favorite with the American public, and was the chief attraction in the Tremont and National theaters, of which successively her father was the manager. She died Jan. 27, 1852, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Anderson, Oscar David

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 27, 1854, in Jamestown, N. Y. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Red Wing, Minn.; has been justice of the peace; judge of probate court; court commissioner; and has filled various other public positions of trust. a