Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Anderson, James 1817 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

James Anderson, retired, Verona, is a native of Huntingdon County, Penn., born 
May 27, 1817, son of Andrew and Elizabeth Anderson, of Ireland, who came to 
the United States in 1793, he being then but three years old. When subject was 
nine years old, his parents moved from Pennsylvania to Harrison County, Ohio, 
where they lived until 1840, when they removed to Illinois, and settled in 
Pike County. There our subject was married, March 25, 1841, to Miss Lydia 
Marshall, daughter of David and Elizabeth Marshall, born in Huntingdon County, 
Penn., May 16, 1804. Mrs. Anderson has been blind since the fall of 1874. They 
came to Grundy County in June, 1855, and settled in Section 13, of Vienna 
Township, where he owned 330 acres of land, including 160 acres in Section 18 
of Mazon Township, where he lived until 1873; he has lately sold his farms and 
bought property in the village of Verona, where they have lived for the past 
two years, his father died in this county February 19, 1857; his mother died 
in Macon County, Ill., in 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the 
Presbyterian Church of Verona. Since selling his farms he has retired, and 
they expect to spend the remainder of their days in the quiet of the village 
of Verona.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p139-40

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