MILLARD F. ANDERSON

ANDERSON

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/22/2020 at 15:37:22

MILLARD F. ANDERSON, blacksmith at Corning, was born in 1850, in Pennsylvania, the fifth child and eldest son in the family of seven children of Richard and Ruanna (Kirkpatrick) Anderson, natives also of that State. The father, a blacksmith also by trade, and noted for being an uncompromising temperance man, died in March, 1890, greatly mourned by the community. The mother is still living in Nebraska. The parents moved to DeKalb county, Illinois, when Millard was but eleven years of age. When still comparatively young the subject of this sketch began to learn the trade of blacksmithing, and followed it in Illinois until 1879, when he came to Adams county, and has since continued in the business with the exception of two years, when he was in Omaha.

In his politics he is a stalwart republican. In 1872 he began the study of Freemasonry, and was initiated into the order at Shabbona Grove, Illinois, and he has taken successive steps at Creston, this State.

His first wife died in 1879, the mother of three children: Gracie, Willie and Delia. The last mentioned died at the age of two years. In 1880 Mr. Anderson was again married, this time to Miss Electa Wilson.