Anderson, John A
congressman, was born June 6, 1834, in Washington county, Pa. He graduated at Miami university, Ohio, in 1853; removed to California; in 1857 was ordained a minister of the presbyterian church; was elected trustee of the State Insane asylum in 1860; was a chaplain of volunteers in 1862; was in the service of the United States sanitary commission from 1863 to 1867, and was president of the Kansas State Agricultural college from 1875 to 1879. He was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-sixth, fortyseventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses.