Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Robert Syers January 3, 1888 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ROBERT SYERS ANDERSON, Hospital Superintendent. Although resolved when a boy 
to learn the cotton trade in his home city of Manchester, England, Robert S. 
Anderson worked in the cotton warehouses but four years, then joined the 
British Army and served in the medical corps in India for five years. From 
Bombay, India, he came to Hawaii in 1913, and for a year was employed as a 
druggist by the Hollister Drug Co. and Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd.
  In 1914, he joined the staff of Leahi Home, where his brother, Fred 
Anderson, was superintendent, and on Jan. 1, 1916, he was appointed 
superintendent. Leahi Home then was but a small institution with eighty 
patients. In the past nine years, since Mr. Anderson became superintendent, it 
has grown remarkably, now having two hundred and eighty patients, and 
facilities for handling seventy more are being arranged. In 1922 a fine new 
administration building was erected, and several additional wards and cottages 
have been built recently, mostly by private endowment. Besides directing Leahi 
Home, Mr. Anderson owns and operates a modern poultry farm on the island of 
Oahu, where he now has more than 5,000 chickens.
  Born in Manchester on Jan. 3, 1888, Mr. Anderson is the son of William and 
Martha (Syers) Anderson. His education was obtained in a Manchester private 
school. In 1917 he married Abigail Mary Bromley of Honolulu, and they have two 
children, Barbara and Roberta. Mr. Anderson became a naturalized American 
citizen in March, 1919.


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