Benton Co., AR - Biographies - O. I. Anderson
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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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O. I. Anderson, a prosperous farmer residing near Bentonville, Ark., 
was born in Lawrence County, Ala., July 5, 1831, being a son of Hugh 
A. and Mary A. (Anderson) Anderson. Col. Hugh A. Anderson was born at 
Logan Station. Ky., June 10, 1782, and was captain in the War of 1812. 
He moved to Alabama in 1818, and in 1836 located in Benton County, 
Ark. He was married January 11, 1810, and his wife died September 30, 
1860. They were the parents of eight children: Louisa Ann, deceased 
wife of Robert W. Mecklin; Elizabeth H., deceased, first the wife of 
Albert Peel and afterward the wife of Judge Hiram Davis; James J., 
deceased; William W., deceased; Mary Jane, the deceased wife of Nathan 
M. Moran; Catherine, the deceased wife of A. W. Dinsmore; Hugh Allen, 
deceased, and Oliverl. Our subject came to Benton County, Ark., with 
his parents in 1836, and was married in 1856 to Mary Kelleam, a native 
of Arkansas, by whom he became the father of nine children: William, a 
farmer living in Benton County; Robert P., a stockman in Colorado; 
Mary Kate, wife of William Crum, a farmer of Washington County; O. P., 
a stockman of Idaho Territory; Bettie E., James Hugh, Nancy L., Amy 
Pearl and Annie W. The mother of these children died July 12, 1878, 
and October 13, 1880, Mr. Anderson was married to Margaret A. Stites. 
She was born in Missouri and reared in Texas. Mr. Anderson served in 
the Confederate army during the late war, and was a participant in the 
battle of Pea Ridge. By industry and good management Mr. [p.806] 
Anderson has become the owner of 683 acres of land; in his political 
views he is a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for 
Taylor. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.