Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 9

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856

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Anderson, George W., lawyer, soldier and member of Congress, was born in Jeffer- son County, Tennessee, May 22, 1832. He graduated at Franklin College, in his native State, and in 1853 came to Missouri. In 1859 he was elected to the Legislature. and in 1860 was a presidential elector. In the Civil War he served in the Union Army, and in 1864 was elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, and in 1866 was re-elected to represent the Ninth Missouri District.

Anderson, James Abram, presiding judge of the County Court of Johnson County, was born near Lexington, Missouri, June 20, 1838, son of William Henry and Di- dama (Dyer) Anderson, both natives of Ken- tucky. His father came to Missouri in the spring of 1820, locating at Lexington, then nothing but a landing on the river, entered

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government land and devoted his life to farm- ing. He was a man of prominence and influ- ence in that community, and in the Black Hawk War was captain of a company which saw active service. Ile died of cholera in 1851. Judge Anderson's mother's father was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army from Vir- ginia, and afterward removed to Kentucky. James .A. Anderson was educated in the com- mon schools and afterward spent several years on the plains, in the employ of Jones & Cart- wright, freighting from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Pike's Peak and New Mexico. In 1861 he began the study of law, but abandoned the idea of professional life on account of the Civil War, and in 1864 engaged in farming and trading in stock, to which he has devoted his life. For eight years he held the office of jus- tice of the peace at Columbus. In 1890 he was elected judge of the county court, and since 1804 has served as the presiding judge, hav- ing remained in office continuously for more than ten years and having yet two years to serve. During his incumbency of the office the new courthouse at Warrensburg was con- tracted for and erected at a cost of $50,000, and is one of the best buildings in the State, con- sidering its cost. Judge Anderson has al- ways been a consistent Democrat. He is a member of the Christian Church, in which he was for several years an elder. For years he was a member of the School Board of Column- bus. During recent years he has spent most of his time in Warrensburg, living in practical retirement aside from the performance of his duties as a public officer. He was married, February 16, 1864, to Mary E. Roach, a native of Virginia, and a daughter of Thornton Roach, who came to Johnson County about 1858. She died October 21, 1885, leaving seven children, namely, Charles R., a farmer residing near Columbus ; Carrie, wife of E. R. Lowrey, residing near Fayetteville; Flora, wife of Charles E. Morrow, prosecuting attor- ney of Johnson County, residing at Warrens- burg ; James H., on the home farm ; Ella, wife of Dr. J. M. Rice, of Columbus, Missouri ; Ar- thur D. and Willie A. Anderson, on the home farm.

Anderson, James Isaac, physician and surgeon, was born April 7, 1850. in War- rensburg, Missouri, son of William Harrison and Mary .A. (Davis) Anderson. His father, for many years a merchant and banker, was

one of the most influential and highly re- spected citizens of Warrensburg. He was born in Campbell County, Tennessee, March 28, 1813. His grandfather, a native of Scot- land, settled in Virginia, where he died at the age of one hundred and one years. At the age of twenty years W. H. Anderson mounted a horse and rode all the way to Johnson County, Missouri, which he had decided to make his home. For three years he engaged in any manual labor that presented itself, and for the next two years was engaged as a clerk in the store of James A. Gallaher. In 1838 he removed to Warrensburg, and in 1839 was made deputy sheriff, serving two years. Five years following were spent as clerk in a gen- eral store. He then embarked in the general merchandising business for himself, which he continued until 1857, when he sold out with the intention of engaging in farming and stock-raising But at this time a branch of the Union Bank of Missouri was established at Warrensburg and he was elected cashier, serv- ing until the bank was discontinued in 1862 on account of the war. Fearing that a raid might be made upon Warrensburg, Mr. An- derson took the money in the vaults of the bank, amounting to about $50,000, and buried it under the hearth of the house on the Cram- ner farm, now the Root farm, about two and a half miles southeast of Warrensburg. Later on, when he found he would be compelled to join the ranks of the refugees, he removed to St. Louis with his family, carrying the bank's funds with him. At the close of the war he engaged in the mercantile business at Pleasant Hill. In 1869 he returned to Warrensburg and soon afterward assisted in the organiza- tion of the Johnson County Savings Bank, in which he served as cashier for two years. Subsequently he engaged in the retail grocery trade. Mr. Anderson served in various public offices. In 1848 he was elected treasurer of Johnson County, occupying that office until rendered ineligible by law. It was largely through his efforts that the management of the Missouri Pacific Railroad was induced to extend its line westward, through Warrens- burg instead of through Lexington, as at first projected. His interest in the cause of educa- tion is attested by the fact that he served for a long time on the local School Board and contributed to the foundation of Central Col- lege, at Fayette, Missouri, this entitling him to the disposition of a scholarship in that insti-

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tution. He died December 24, 1892. The education of Dr. James I. Anderson was be- gun in the public schools of his native town. After a course in the Warrensburg Normal School he entered the medical department of Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tennes- sec, from which he was graduated in 1882. Since that time he has practiced continuously in his present office at Warrensburg. In 1892 and 1893 he took post-graduate courses in the New York Polyclinic. He is a member of the State and Hodgen District Medical So- cieties, was pension examiner under both ad- ministrations of President Cleveland, and for some time has been local surgeon for the Mis- souri Pacific Railroad. During the early years of his professional career he served one term as coroner of Johnson County. Politically he is a Democrat, and fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, being a past master of the Blue Lodge. Since 1897 he has been a member of the board of regents of the State Normal School at Warrensburg. He was married, May 21, 1890, to Elizabeth Plumer, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of M. A. Plumer, now of Warrensburg. They are the parents of four children, Gladys, Plumer, Carrie and Albert M. Anderson. Dr. Anderson's contemporaries accord him a place in the front rank of his profession, in which his work has been attended by unusual success.

Anderson, John J., pioneer merchant and banker, was born January 19, 1813, in Cahokia, Illinois, son of Reuben Anderson, a native of Delaware, and a soldier in the War of 1812. Mr. Anderson was reared and edu- cated at Belleville, Illinois, and then came to St. Louis, where he was trained to commercial pursuits. In the early years of his business career he was a successful merchant in that city, but in 1842 he met with financial losses which swept away his accumulations and made it necessary for him to begin life anew. After that he became associated with Joseph S. Morrison, of Pennsylvania, in the banking business, was long head of the house of John J. Anderson & Co., and occupied a prominent position among old-time bankers. He was also identified with the building of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, the Pacific Railroad, the Iron Mountain Railroad and the North Mis- souri Railroad. He married, in 1835, Miss Theresa Billon, daughter of Charles L. Billon, of Philadelphia.

Anderson, Matthew William, banker, was born December 20, 1836, on the farm of his father, four miles from Independence, Mis- souri. His parents were George W. and Sally (Stewart) Anderson, both of whom were na- tives of Kentucky and members of splendid Southern families, whose records for thrift and integrity are spotless. They were married in Kentucky and removed to Missouri in 1836. the year M. W. Anderson was born. They located on the acres that composed the old homestead for so many years, near Independ- ence, and played no small part in the wonder- ful transformation which caused Western Missouri to blossom from a pioneer wilderness into luxurious cultivation during their years. The son was left upon his own resources early in life, on account of the death of his father, but proved equal to the stern task before him. He received a common school education in the schools of Jackson County, and had a good, practical preparation for the numerous undertakings which were to combine in mak- ing his life successful. In 1860 he was elected constable of Blue Township, in Jackson County, defeating six opponents in a race that was hotly contested. In those days the office of constable was equally renumerative with the office of sheriff. It was ably filled by the young man until the edict went forth that officeholders must take the "Gamble oath." That order having been promulgated and Mr. Anderson being unwilling to swear against convictions which came from Southern blood, he gave up the office. In 1862 he went to New Mexico and engaged in the business of overland freighting, in the employ of Irvin, Jackman & Co. He followed that line of work for about six months. After returning to Missouri he became deputy sheriff of Jack- son County, in 1868, under Charles Dough- erty, and served in that capacity until 1870. Between the time of his return from New Mexico and his acceptance of the office of deputy sheriff he engaged in farming in Jack- son County. The Democratic party nomi- nated him for collector of Jackson County, but his first race was followed by defeat. James L. Gray being elected. His second candidacy was successful, however, and in 1872 he was elected collector by a large majority. The oath of office was taken in 1873 and he served as collector four years. During this time, hay- ing prospered in financial affairs, he was a silent partner in the banking house of Brown,

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Hughes & Co., paid considerable attention to the raising of fine stock and looked after a large ranch which he had purchased in New Mexico. When the Anderson-Chiles Banking Company of Independence was organized he was made president of the concern, and for several years it was one of the strongest pri- vate banking houses in western Missouri. In 1889 this bank was nationalized and Mr. An- derson was chosen president. Since that time he has been president of this strong establish- ment, which is known as the First National Bank, and his reputation as a careful. success- ful business man is firmly established. Mr. Anderson has large property holdings which require much attention, and not all of his time is devoted to the banking business. He is one of the most prominent dealers in fine cattle in Missouri, and his splendid herd of Bates short- horns which graze on the pastures of his four- hundred acre farm near Independence is considered the standard of its kind. In addition to the office of county collector Mr. Anderson received other honors from the people of his community, serving for eighteen years as a member of the city council of Independence. He is a member of the Episcopal Church and holds the office of senior warden in Trinity Church, Independence. He was married, in 1861, to Miss Julia Daniel, of Jackson County, Missouri. To them two children, daughters, were born. Mrs. Anderson died in 1888. The husband was the second time married in 1892, his bride being Miss Mary W. Ervin. daugh- ter of Colonel Eugene Ervin, of Lexington, Kentucky. Colonel Ervin was a grandson of the distinguished Kentucky statesman, Henry Clay, and of such noble ancestry Mrs. Ander- son and her two bright sons, Henry Clay and Matthew William, have reason to be proud.

Anderson, Samuel Hahnemann, physician, was born July 8, 1850, at Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio. His parents were Samuel B. and Nancy L. (Davis) Anderson, both natives of Ohio, now residing in Denver, Colorado. The father was descended from a Pennsylvania family, and an immediate ances- tor served in the War of 1812; he was a physi- sician and practiced in Lawrence, Kansas, for thirty years. The mother was related to the family to which belonged Jefferson Davis. the Confederate President ; her ancestors were North Carolinians, among whom were those who figured in the events of the Revolutionary

War period. The son, Samuel Hahnemann, named for the founder of homeopathy, was a student in a seminary in his native town at the age of eighteen years, when the family removed to Lawrence, Kansas. Here he en- tered the Kansas State University and contin- ued his education in the classics and the higher mathematics. He did not remain to graduate, but left school to make preparation for entering the medical profession under the tutorship of his father, with whom he had pre- viously read for some years. At a later day he entered the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1876. Immediately thereafter he began practice in connection with his father, and while so engaged became a mem- ber of the Kansas Homeopathic Institute, and was for some years a member of the Kansas State Board of Examiners. In May, 1881, he located in Kansas City, Missouri, and engaged in general practice, in which obstetrics and surgery came to claim a large share of his at- tention. For one year he was physician to the Children's Home. In the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College he has occu- pied the chair of surgery, and for a number of years past has been professor of obstetrics. He is a member of the Western Academy of Homeopathy, of the Missouri Valley Home- opathic Society, and of the Missouri State Homeopathic Institute. He has frequently read before these societies papers which have attracted wide attention by their literary ex- cellence, as well as their professional merit. and have found publication in various scien- tific journals. He has made a valuable addi- tion to the appliances of the surgeon, in a splint of his own invention. This is a modifi- cation of the well known Hodgen splint : it is double-inclined and counter-balancing, remov- ing all pernicious strain from the injured limb, allowing it the utmost freedom and obviating all necessity for circular bandaging. It has been brought into use by many old-school practitioners, as well as by those of his own de- partment who have seen its practical opera- tions under his own direction, or have heard him exemplify its uses in lectures which he has been called upon to deliver. He has been importuned to apply for a patent and to enter into partnership with surgical instrument manufacturers for its production and market- ing. but with conscientious regard for the ethics of the profession he has declined such

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overtures. In politics he is a liberal Dem- ocrat. Without church connection, he is rev- erent in disposition, and his personal conduct and relations with his fellow men find their inspiration and government in the great law of human kindness. With a broad and liber- ally stored mind, he finds his chief delight in the best of literature and in traversing fields, forests and streams untouched by man. Dr. Anderson was married, September 20, 1880, to Miss Julia, daughter of Joel Hostetter, a re- tired merchant of Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. Anderson is highly cultivated, a deeply inter- ested member of leading literary clubs and a gifted artist. Her home is adorned with many gems from her brush, and in china painting her work challenges the admiration of the art lovers of the community.

Anderson's Guerrilla Warfare .- William, better known as "Bill" Anderson, was one of the most cruel and desperate guerrilla chiefs in Missouri during the Civil War. His field of operations was in the two tiers of counties on the north side of the Mis- souri River, and his band were almost con- stantly moving through that region in the years 1863 and 1864, carrying on their busi- ness of plundering and killing. It is said that Anderson's mother and sister were arrested for their outspoken Southern sympathies and confined at Kansas City, in an insecure build- ing, which fell, killing several prisoners, among them Anderson's sister; and this was what made him the desperado he became. On the 23d of September, 1864, he and George Todd, another noted guerrilla chief, with one hundred and fifty men, attacked and captured a government train of fourteen wagons while moving under an escort of seventy men of the Third Missouri Militia, Captain McFadden in command, from Sturgeon to Rocheport, in Boone County. The guard was put to flight, leaving eleven Union soldiers and three ne- groes dead on the ground. The train was plundered of everything the guerrillas could carry off and then burned. Four days after- ward Anderson, with Todd, John Thrailkill, David Pool and Holtclaw, all as desperate as himself, with several hundred men, appeared in the vicinity of Centralia, Boone County, seizing horses, robbing the stores and com- mitting other acts of violence. On the arrival of the stage from Columbia they halted it, robbed the passengers of their pocketbooks

and took the horses. On the arrival of the train from St. Louis, Anderson arranged his men on the sides of the track near the depot and took possession of it, robbing the passen- gers and breaking open the express safe and taking what money there was in it. But all this was as nothing to what followed. There were twenty-three Union soldiers on the train. Anderson took them out, formed them in line under guard in the street, and ordered them shot, an order which was executed as brutally as it was given. Several of the soldiers ran and sought to escape, but the last one of them was overtaken and killed. This bloody work completed, and the depot and the train burned, Anderson, with his band, left the town and en- tered the woods two miles off. Ile had hardly departed when Major Johnson, with a battalion of the Thirty-ninth Missouri Volun- teers, entered the town, and on being informed of what had taken place determined to pursue the guerrillas. It was a rash resolution, for Major Jolinson's men were poorly mounted and armed only with muskets, while the guer- rillas, double in number, were finely mounted, and each of them carried four to six revolvers. On the approach of the Federal force the guer- rillas came out of the woods to meet them, and the engagement began with a fierce charge from Anderson's men, which broke the Union line and caused the men to flee in disorder over the prairie. The guerrillas pursued them with pitiless fury, shooting them down with their revolvers as they ran. Major Johnson, Captain Smith and several other officers, with one hundred and thirty-nine men, were killed. In the fall of 1864 Anderson and his band, while in Glasgow, went to the residence of William J. Lewis, a wealthy old Union citizen, and by a course of cruel treatment, knock- ing him on the head with their pistols, prick- ing him with knives, firing their pistols in his face and thrusting the muzzles in his mouth, extorted from him and his friends $5,000. In the latter part of October, one month after the "Massacre at Centralia," Anderson made his appearance in Ray County, and Lieutenant Colonel S. P. Cox, of the Thirty-third En- rolled Missouri Militia, who was at Richmond, made a forced march to meet him. He found him near Albany and a battle ensued, Ander- son, with three hundred men, raising the In- dian yell and charging in full guerrilla style with revolvers upon the Federal line. The brigand chief, with one companion, charged

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through the ranks, but was shot dead fifty paces in the rear, a ball having struck him in the head. His companion, supposed to be a son of General James S. Rains, made his es- cape, and the guerrillas, disconcerted at the loss of their captain, rode off at full speed. pursued for several miles by Colonel Cox's men. L'pon Anderson's body was found $300 in gold. $150 in United States currency and six revolvers. Hanging from the saddle of the dead guerrilla were several human scalps, mute but effective witnesses of the character of warfare he had waged. His body was taken to Richmond and buried in the cemetery there.

Anderson, Thomas Lilbourne, law- ver. was born December 8, 1808. in Greene County. Kentucky, son of David and Jane R. (Bullock) Anderson. Both his parents were born in Albemarle County, Virginia. John Bullock. the father of Mrs. Anderson, was a captain in Washington's army in the Revolu- tionary War. David Anderson emigrated to Kentucky in 1806, where the subject of this sketch was born. Thomas L. Anderson lo- cated in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1830, but two years later removed to Palmyra, where he re- mained until his death. In 1832 he married Miss Russella Easton, daughter of Colonel Rufus Easton, of St. Charles, Missouri, then an aged lawyer in St. Charles, who had been a delegate in Congress from the Territory of Missouri ; also Attorney General. Three sons were born of this union, Rufus Easton An- derson, a well known lawyer of llannibal, Mis- souri ; Honorable William R. Anderson, of Palmyra. Missouri, and Samuel S. Anderson, who became a prominent lawyer and died at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1869, of disease con- tracted in the Confederate Army. Colonel Anderson's wife dying, he married. in 1845, Miss Fanny M. Winchell, of Shelby County, Missouri. The Whigs of his county elected him to the Missouri Legislature in 1840, and he then began a long and honorable public career. In 1844 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, refusing. however, to affix his name to the document adopted by that body. It was submitted to a vote of the people and by them rejected. His district elected him to Congress in 1856 as an "Amer- ican"or "Know-nothing." In 1858 he ran as an independent anti Douglas Democrat and was re elected, defeating Honorable John

B. Henderson, of Pike County, the Demo- cratic candidate, by a large majority. He served with great credit to himself and satis- faction to his intelligent constituents. In 1861 he retired from Congress to resume the practice of law at his home in Marion County. He was in hearty accord with the South, and from conscientious motives advocated its duty and right to secede. At the special election in April, 1861, he was a secession candidate for the Legislature, but was defeated by Col- onel Lipscomb. The war breaking out soon after, he was thrown out of practice and re- tired to private life. He was arrested and placed under bond. and endured much during those troublous times. Colonel Anderson resumed his practice upon the restoration of their rights and privileges to all Missourians. He was able and active, and during his pro- fessional career was engaged in most of the leading cases in North Missouri. Of the pro- ceeds of his large and lucrative practice he gave liberally to charities. His integrity was of the strictest sort and not a penny ever found its way into his pocket by any doubtful means. His name stood for all that was noble and honorable. He took an active part in the prohibition movement in Missouri, never touching liquor himself. To benefit mankind was his aim, whether politically or morally. He joined the Presbyterian Church in 1833 and was a devout member. The community in which he lived was dear to his heart and his people were justly proud of him. He died March 5, 1885, deeply regretted by all.

Anderson, William T., one of the leading representatives of the grain trade in St. Louis, was born November 24, 1842, in Boone County, Missouri. son of Benjamin and Sarah (Westlake) Anderson. Of Virginia birth and antecedents, his father came from the "Old Dominion" to this State in 1830, and here married Miss Westlake, who was born in Missouri, her parents having been num- bered among its pioneer settlers. After re- ceiving a public school education William T. Anderson attended for a time the State Uni- versity at Columbia, Missouri, leaving that institution to enter the Confederate military service at the beginning of the Civil War. He was a participant in the battles of Boonville, Carthage, Drywood, Lexington and Wilson's Creek, and was taken prisoner by the Federal forces in southwestern Missouri. After the

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war he established himself in trade at Colum- bia, his old home, and after having been en- gaged in mercantile pursuits there for seven or eight years purchased the Columbia flour mills, which he operated successfully until 1883. This connection with the milling and grain business led up to his embarking in the grain trade on a larger scale, and in the year last named he disposed of liis Columbia flour mills and came to St. Louis, where he founded the grain commission house of W. T. Ander- son & Co., which was for many years an im- portant factor in the grain trade of St. Louis, continuing in existence until 1893. In that vear this firm was dissolved, and since then Mr. Anderson has continued in the grain trade alone, handling each year enormous quanti- ties of farm products and embracing within the field of his operations a wide extent of territory. Conducting his business with rare ability and with strict regard for all the ethics of trade, Mr. Anderson enjoys the unbounded confidence of his patrons and those having business relations with him. He is president of the Farmers' Elevator Company. While he is known to the public chiefly as a business man of high character, whose station in life has been attained through his own earnest and well directed efforts, he has served the people in public and semi-public capacities since he came to St. Louis, demonstrating his fitness for official station, and evidencing also his un- usual popularity. In 1891 he was nominated, without solicitation on his part, and without his knowledge, even, of the intention of his party friends, for member of the city council. and as the result of much pressure on the part of these friends, accepted the nomina- tion. At the ensuing election he ran far ahead of his ticket and received the largest majority ever given to a candidate for coun- cilman in the city.

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 9

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n Publication date: 1901 Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors Number of Pages: 856

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856