Anders, T. J – Anderson, James O
Anders, T. J
lawyer, jurist, was born April 4, 1838, near Republic, Ohio. He removed to Montana, and later to Walla Walla, opening a law office at the latter town in 1871. He was elected city attorney, and also five times elected prosecuting attorney for that district. Judge Anders has been connected with much of the important litigation of Washington, and was the unanimous choice of his brother judges for the first chief justice of the supreme court of Washington. In 1892 he was re-elected for six years.
Anderson, Abel
clergyman, educator, was born Dec. 6, 1847, in Albion, Wis. He graduated from the Luther college, university of Wisconsin, and from the Concordia theological seminary of St. Louis, Mo.
During 1874-87 he was pastor of the Lutheran church in Muskegon, Mich., then at Appleton, Minn.; and since 1888 at Montevideo, Minn. Since the latter date he has also filled the chair of ancient and modern languages in the Windom institute. He was school inspector for a series of years, and in 1884 was a delegate from Michigan to the republican national convention.
Anderson, Alfred Horace
railroad president, was born in 1858, in La Crosse, Wis. Since 1895 he has been president of the Peninsular railroad.
Anderson, Albert R
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1837, He was appointed state railroad commissioner in 1881; and was elected to the fiftieth congress as an independent republican.
Anderson, Alexander
engraver, author, was born April 21, 1775, in New York city. He was the first wood-engraver in the United States. He was the author of an illustrated General History of Quadrupeds. He died Jan. 17, 1870, in Jersey City, N. J.
Anderson, Alexander
congressman, was born Nov. 10, 1794, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He was a senator in congress from the Knoxville district, Tennessee, during the years 1840 and 1841, part of a term, and served as a member of the committee on the militia. He died May 23, 1869, in Knoxville, Tenn.
Anderson, C. L
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 15, 1845, in Noxubee county, Miss. He entered the confederate army as a private in the thirty - ninth infantry regiment, Mississippi volunteers, March 5, 1862, and served continuously in that command, receiving promotion through the successive grades of non commissioned officers until July, 1864, when he was transferred to Bradford's cavalry corps of scouts, with the rank of second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. He entered the university of Mississippi in January, 1866, where he remained until the summer of 1867, having taken a partial course in both the literary and law departments. He commenced the practice of law in the town of Kosciusko, Feb. 14, 1868; was elected to the Mississippi legislature in November, 1879, and served through the session of 1880; and was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress. In 1896-97 he was United States district attorney of Mississippi.
Anderson, Charles
lawyer. He was acting governor of Ohio in 1865 and 1866; and was by profession a lawyer.
He was a man of high culture, and for many years was an influential citizen of Cincinnati.
Anderson, Charles M
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 5, 1845, in Juniata county, Pa. He removed with his parents to Ohio in 1855; served in the Union army throughout the civil war; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. He engaged in practice at Greenville, Ohio; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress.
Anderson, Clifford
attorneygeneral, was born March 23, 1833, in Virginia. He was elected judge of Macon city court in 1856, and attorney-general of Georgia, serving in the last office ten years.
Anderson, David
soldier, manufacturer, state senator, was born Nov. 26, 1825, in Clarendon, N. Y. He moved to Michigan in 1854, and settled in the town of Madison. In 1865 he removed to the town of Columbia, where he has held various offices of trust in his township. In 1862 he joined the nineteenth Michigan infantry, received the commission of first lieutenant, and in the same year was promoted to the rank of captain. In 1864 he was commissioned as major, and at the close of the war received a colonel's commission. During 1873-74 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state senate.
Anderson, Galusha
LL. D., clergyman, educator, college president, was born March 7, 1832, in Bergen, N. Y. In 1854 he graduated from the university of Rochester; and from the Rochester theological seminary two years later. He was pastor of the first baptist church of Janesville, Wis.; of the second baptist church of St. Louis, Mo.; of the Strong place baptist church of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and of the second baptist church of Chicago.
For eight years he was president of the university of Chicago; and for three years was president of the Denison university, Ohio. For seven years he filled the chair of sacred rhetoric, church polity and pastoral duties in the Newton theological seminary, Mass.; and now fills the same chair in the divinity school of the university of Chicago. He was in St.
Louis during the civil war, and preached the first loyal sermon in that city in April, 1861; and he was one of a band of loyal men who succeeded in keeping Missouri in the Union. His writings have appeared in the North American Review and various standard works.
Anderson, George A
lawyer, congressman, was born March 11, 1853, in Botetourt county, Va. He removed with his parents to Hancock county, Ill., when two years of age; received a common school and collegiate education, graduating with first honors in 1876. He began the practice of law in Quincy, Ill., in 1880. He was elected city attorney of Quincy in 1884, and re-elected without opposition in 1885, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Anderson, George B
soldier, was born in 1831 in Wilmington, N. C. He entered West Point, was graduated in 1852, and appointed second lieutenant in the second dragoons. On the breaking out of the civil war he resigned his commission to accept a brigadier-generalship in the confederate army. He died Oct. 16, 1862, in Raleigh, N. C.
Anderson, George W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 22, 1832, in Jefferson county, Tenn. He graduated at Franklin college, Tennessee; studied and practiced law; went to Missouri in 1853; was a member of the state legislature of Missouri in 1859 and 1860, and of the state senate in 1862; was a.. presidential elector in 1860; served as colonel of a regiment of the reserve corps from 1862 to 1864, and commanded the forty-ninth regiment and first battalion E. M. M. in active service. He was elected to the thirty-ninth congress, and was. re-elected to the fortieth congress as a radical.
Anderson, Henry James
educator, author, was born Feb. 6, 1799, in New York. He was the author of Geology of Lieutenant Lynch's Expedition to the Dead Sea; and a Geological Reconnoissance of Part of the Holy Land. He died. Oct. 19, 1875, in Hindostan.
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Anderson, Hugh J
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born May 10, 1801, in Wicassel, Maine. He was clerk of the Waldo county courts from 1827 to 1837; a representative in congress from Maine, from 1837 to 1841, and a member of the committee on naval affairs. was a lawyer by profession; governor of Maine from 1844 to 1847; a presidential elector in 1849; and commissioner of customs in Washington, from 1853 to 1858. In 1866 he was appointed sixth auditor of the treasury. He died May 3, 1881, in Portland, Maine.
Anderson, Isaac
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1803 to 1807.
Anderson, Isaac
clergyman, was born March 26, 1780, in Rock Bridge, Va.
He was a successful clergyman of Maryville, Tenn., where the Southwestern Theological seminary was established through his efforts.
Anderson, J. P
congressman, was born about 1820 in Tennessee. He was. elected a delegate to the thirty-fourth congress from the territory of Washington. He died in 1873, in Memphis, Tenn.
Anderson, James Hamilton
sol-- dier, lawyer, was born May 30, 1842, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1857 he moved with his father to Keokuk, Iowa; and three years later to Missouri. For awhile he was in a regiment of the North East Missouri volunteers in 1861; and in 1864 he enlisted in the forty-fifth regiment volunteer infantry. He subsequently studied law in Keokuk, and since 1866 has prac-- ticed his profession in that city. He was vice-president and manager of the Keokuk and Northwestern railroad; and he built the original street railroad in Keokuk, of which for several years he was president. He is president of the Keokuk school board; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Anderson, James O
soldier, farm-- er, legislator, was born Aug. 1, 1845, in Henderson county, Ill. He left Monmouth college when a student to enlist in the twenty-eighth regiment Illinois infantry, in which he attained the rank of second lieutenant. He was sheriff of Henderson county for ten years, and he was elected to the Illinois house of repre-- sentatives in 1888, 1890, 1892, and ing