Biography of Francis M. Anderson, Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL

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Transcribed from:  The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. 
II, page 180, 1923.

ANDERSON, FRANCIS M. came to Tampa a few years after completing his college education, and 
on his personal merits has achieved a conspicuous place in the business affairs of that city 
where he is president of the Tampa Coal Company and the Tampa Wood Company, is proprietor of 
the Anderson Overton Tire Company and is manager of the Beeman-Beckworth Company.

Mr. ANDERSON was born on the eastern shore of Virginia, October 11, 1882, son of Rev. J. G. 
and FANNIE (DAVIS) ANDERSON.  His father, a doctor of divinity and long identified with the 
profession of the ministry, is now living at Gainesville, Florida.  FRANCIS ANDERSON is the
second in a family of six children.  He spent his early youth in the various localities where 
his father was a minister, chiefly at Williamsburg, Virginia, four years at Harrisburg, North 
Carolina, and six years at Millersburg, Kentucky.  Mr. ANDERSON graduated A. B.  in 1903 from 
Emory College at Oxford, Georgia, and for several years was in the employ of the government 
engineers during the survey and improvement of Tampa Bay.

He began his business there in the office of Henry Giddens Clothing Company, was bookkeeper 
for the Knight & Wall Company, and about 1908 engaged in the coal business and incorporated 
it in 1910, since which year he has been president of the Tampa Coal Company and the Tampa 
Wood Company.  In 1912 he became sales manager for the Cadillac Motor Company, and the following 
year he was sales manager at Tampa for the Chalmers cars.  He subsequently spent a year with 
the Hillsboro Company inspecting brick.  During 1917-18 Mr. ANDERSON served as a lieutenant 
in the Naval Reserves in the Sixth Section of the Seventh Naval District.  He has been manager 
of the Beeman-Beckwith Company since 1919 and in 1921 he organized the Anderson Tire and Supply 
Company.

Mr. ANDERSON is a member of the Masonic Order and Elks, belongs to the Tampa Yacht Club and
Country Club, and was the Fifth King of the Mystic Krewe.