Anderson, Richard Clough – Anderson, William C
Anderson, Richard Clough
soldier, was born Jan. 12, 1750, in Hanover, Va. As captain in the fifth Virginia continentals, he led the advance of me Americans at the battle of Trenton (Dec. 24, 1776), crossing the Delaware river in the first boat, and driving in the Hessian outposts several hours before the main attack was delivered. He was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and was a daring leader wherever dash and resolution were needed. He died Oct. 16, 1826, in Louisville, Ky.
Anderson, Richard Clough
JR., lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1788, in Louisville, Ky. He practiced with success at the Kentucky bar, and, after sitting in the legislature, was elected to congress in 1817 and again the following term. In 1822 he was again returned to the legislature, and was chosen speaker.
He was appointed minister to Columbia in 1823 and in 1826, when, proceeding to the Panama congress as envoy extraordinary, he died on the journey. He died July 24, 1826.
Anderson, Richard H
soldier, was born Oct. 7, 1821, in Slatesburg, S. C.
He was made a brigadier-general in the confederate army, promoted to lieutenantgeneral in 1864, and in the Wilderness campaign had several important commands. He died June 26, 1879, in Beaufort, S. C.
Anderson, Robert
soldier, was born June 14, 1805, in Louisville, Ky. In 1825 he graduated from West Point, and was assigned to the third artillery as second lieutenant. In the Black Hawk war of 1832 he was colonel of a company of Illinois volunteers. He took part in the Seminole and Mexican wars; and in 1857 was appointed major of the first artillery. He was commander of Fort Sumter when it was forced to surrender.
He attained the rank of brigadier-general, and subsequently was brevetted major-general. He was one of the founders of the Soldier's Home in Washington. He died Oct. 27, 1871, in Nice, France.
Anderson, Robert Houston
soldier, was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Savannah, Ga. He entered the confederate army in 1861 and rose by successive advancements to brigadier-general in 1864.
Anderson, Robert L
railroad president, was born Dec. 11, 1856, in Mayfield, Ky. He is president of the Live Oak and Gulf railroad at Ocala, Fla.
Anderson, Rufus
missionary, author, was born Aug. 17, 1796, in North Yarmouth, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin in 1818, and subsequently graduated from the Andover seminary. He devised the Christian Almanac, which is still continued under the title of the Family Christian Almanac, which has a circulation of nearly half a million copies annually. In 1826 he was ordained a clergyman; and has been a missionary in various countries. He was the author of Memoir of Catharine Brown, which had a large circulation both in America and in England. He was secretary of the American board of foreign missions in 1824-74. He was also the author of Foreign Missions, Their Relations and Claims; History of the American Board's Missions in the Sandwich Islands, Turkey and India, Peloponnesus and Greek Islands. He died May 30, 1880.
Andrew, Samuel
clergyman, was born in 1656, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1707- 19 he was rector of Yale college. He died Jan. 24, 1738.
Anderson, Samuel
congressman, was born in 1774, in Pennsylvania. He served repeatedly in the legislature of that state; and was speaker of me house during two sessions. He was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1839, and was a member of the committee on the boundary line of Missouri. He died Jan. 17, 1850, in Chester, Pa.
Anderson, Samuel Graham
clergyman, evangelist, was born Sept. 17, 1842, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1876 he was ordained a clergyman of the baptist church, and has filled pastorates in Canada, New York and Michigan, in which latter state he fills a pastorate in Ishpeming. He has been instrumental in organizing and building a number of churches; takes a practicable interest in all missionary, education and charitable enterprises; and has been very successful as an evangelist.
Anderson, Samuel Jameson
was born in December, 1824, in Portland, Maine. In 1856 he was elected attorney for the county of Cumberland, and in 1856 was surveyor of the port, and held the office four years. In 1869 he was elected president of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad on its organization, and is now in that position. In 1878 he was nominated by the democratic party for congress, but failed of an election. For some years he was major-general in the state militia.
Anderson, Simeon H
congressman, was born March 2, 1802, in Garrard county, Ky. He studied law, and practiced with success; and served frequently in the Kentucky legislature. He was elected a representative in congress from the fifth congressional district of Kentucky, from 1839 to 1841, and served as a member of the committee on postoffices and post roads. He died Aug. 11, 1840, near Lancaster, Ky.
ANDERSON, T. J. soldier, was born in 1839, in Portage county, Ohio. He moved to Kansas in 1856; and in 1861 enlisted as a private in the fifth Kansas cavalry, and was brevetted colonel at the close of the war. He has been commander of his post at Topeka, and also served as department commander.
Anderson, Thomas
soldier, clergyman, was born Jan. 1, 1791, in Mercer county, Pa. He graduated in 1820 from the Washington college of Washington, Pa. He served as a private during the war of 1812. In 1825 he entered the ministry, and was a home missionary in western Pennsylvania from that time until 1843. He died Dec. 20, 1853. re-
Anderson, Thomas L
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1808, in Greene county, Ky. He was self-educated; moved to Missouri in 1830, where he commenced the practice of law at twenty-one years of age; and was elected to the legislature of that state in 1840. He was a presidential elector in 1844, 1848, 1852, and 1856; was a member of the convention for remodeling the state constitution in 1845; and was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses.
Anderson, Thomas Mac Arthur
lawyer, army officer, author, was born Jan. 21, 1836, in Chillicothe, Ohio. He was educated at the Mount St. Mary's college, Maryland; and graduated from the Cincinnati law school; and subsequently practiced law. During the civil war he served as a soldier in the sixth regiment of the Ohio volunteer infantry.
He has been lieutenant in the fifth U. S. cavalry; captain in the twelfth U. S. infantry; and was acting field officer during the civil war; major of the twentyfirst U. S. infantry; major of the tenth U. S. infantry; lieutenant-colonel ninth U. S. infantry; and since 1886 has been colonel of the fourteenth U. S. infantry.
He has been vice-president of the Sons of the American Revolution; past commander of the Loyal Legion; besides holding various other positions of honor.
He is the author of a number of Monographs of Military, Masonic, and Patriotic subjects. In 1898 he accompanied Gen.
Merritt to Manila as a brigadier-general.
Anderson, William
soldier, jurist, congressman, was born in 1763, in Chester county, Pa. He served throughout the revolutionary war with credit, taking a prominent part in the siege of Yorktown.
After the war returned to Delaware county, Pa.; was a representative in congress from that state from 1809 to 1815, and from 1817 to 1819; was afterwards a judge of Delaware county court, and a customhouse officer at Chester, Pa. died Dec. 14, 1829, in Chester, Pa.
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Anderson, William
clergyman, was born April 29, 1864, in England. He was a local preacher in the Wesleyan methodist church in England; and subsequently attended the Drew Theological seminary of Madison, N. J. He is now one of the foremost clergymen of the south in the methodist episcopal church, and fills a pastorate in Wheeling, W. Va.
Anderson, William B
farmer, general, congressman, was born April 2, 1830, in Mount Vernon, Ill. He received a common school education; was elected surveyor of Jefferson county in 1851; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1858, but never practiced, engaging in agricultural pursuits, and is by occupation a farmer. He was elected a member of the state house of representatives of Illinois in 1856, and again in 1858; entered the union army in 1861 as private, was successively elected captain, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel, and was brevetted brigadier-general. He was a presidential elector on the Seymour and Blair ticket in 1868; was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Illinois in 1869; was elected to the state senate of Illinois Nov. 5, 1871, to fill a vacancy; and was elected to the forty-fourth congress as an independent reformer. a
Anderson, William C
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1826, in Lancaster, Ky. He was educated at the college of Danville; and adopted the profession of the law. He served in the Kentucky legislature in 1851 and 1853; was a presidential elector in 1856; and in 1859 was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-sixth congress. died Dec. 23, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky.
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