Andrew L. Anderson

ANDERSON, FINDLEY

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/16/2011 at 14:34:15

HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY 1908, page 768

Thomas T. Anderson - Andrew L. Anderson

Thomas T. Anderson, senior editor of the Indianola Herald since 1886, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, March 25, 1844, and came to Iowa with his parents, Andrew and Mary (Findley) Anderson both of whom were natives of Wasington County, Pennsylvania. The father, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in 1812 , and departed this life in March, 1878. He was a saddler by trade. In his boyhood days he removed with his mother to Ohio, the father having previously died, and there the family opened up a farm, cutting the timber from a tract of land preparatory to developing the fields. Andrew Anderson was thus identified with the agricultural interests of Ohio until 1854, when he removed westward to Iowa and settled in Davenport.

There he remained for a short time and was also for a brief period a resident of Mahaska county, but in the fall of 1857 he came to Warren county and took up his abode in the log cabin known as Greenfield Cabin.

It had been built by Elisha Perkins and a picture of it is shown in this work. The family occupied that primitive dwelling for about a year and were closely associated with the pioneer improvement of the county, Andrew Anderson lived an industrious and frugal life, remaining a resident of Greenfield township until within a year of his death. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church and was universally esteemed by his neighbors as a man of the strictest integrity and of unswerving honor.

His political allegiance was given to the republican party. His wife who was born July 29, 1816 died in 1857, in the little cabin home previously alluded to. She, too was of Scotch-Irish lineage and was the eldest daughter of the Rev. Samuel Findley, a well known divine of Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Anderson were born nine sons: William M, who was a physician of St. Charles, Iowa, but is now deceased, Samuel Findley who was a member of Company G, Third Iowa Infantry, and was killed in the battle of Shiloh, Hugh who died at the age of fourteen years, Thomas T. Anderson of this review, James M., associated with his brother in the publication and ownership of the Indianola Herald, John T. a Merchant of Seward, Nebraska, Andrew P., deceased, Ross P., an attorney of Seward, Nebraska, and an infant.