Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Anderson, William W. 1872 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  William W. Anderson, a member of the board of county commissioners and one of
the representative farmers and stockmen of Johnson county, is a native son of
Kansas. He was born on the farm where he now resides, about a mile south of
Wilder, January 29, 1872, and is a son of Thomas and Jane B. (Beaty) Anderson.
Thomas Anderson was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, born in 1836, and died March
31, 1904, and came to America with his father in 1844, at the age of five years.
The father was a stone-cutter and later followed contracting in this country,
and had a contract on canal construction in Virginia that required three years
to complete. He then went back to Scotland and later returned to America where
he spent the remainder of his life. Thomas Anderson came to Kansas in 1857,
locating at Leavenworth, where he remained about a year and shortly afterwards
returned to Missouri. He remained there until the Civil war broke out when he
went to Milwaukee, Wis., riding on horseback the entire distance, which was
something over 500 miles, and enlisted in the First regiment, Wisconsin
infantry, and served for three years in the army. At the close of the war he
returned to Missouri and in 1866 came to Johnson county and located on a farm in
Monticello township where he spent the remainder of his life. His widow resides
on the home place with her son, William W., the subject of this sketch. She was
born in Union Grove, Wis., of Scotch parentage. William W. Anderson is one of a
family of seven children, six of whom are living, as follows: John married Grace
Turk in 1895 and resides at Perry, Iowa, and is trainmaster on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railway; Robert K. is unmarried and resides in Spokane,
Wash.; Milton H. married Mamie Pourcley in 1896, is the manager of the Diamond
Seat and Body Company, Kansas City, Mo., and resides at Randolph, Mo.; Thomas,
city electrician of Seattle, Wash., married Ethel Johnson in 1907; Ralph W.,
traveling salesman for the Union Carbide Company, Chicago, Ill., married
Josephine Goldsworthy in 1903; and William W., the subject of this sketch.
William W. Anderson was reared and educated in Johnson county. He .then went to
Union Grove, Wis., where he learned telegraphy and for ten years was in the
employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company as a telegraph
operator and station agent. In 1902 he returned to his Johnson county home and,
on account of his father's failing health, took charge of the home farm and
since that time has devoted his attention to farming. Mr. Anderson makes a
specialty of raising horses and mules and has some of the finest Percheron
horses and jacks in eastern Kansas, and is recognized as one of the successful
farmers and stock breeders of Johnson county. He has taken an active interest in
public affairs since returning to Johnson county, and has served two years as
treasurer of Monticello township, and in 1912 was elected county commissioner
from the second district which consists of Olathe, Monticello and Spring Hill
townships. He was united in marriage January 15, 1900, to Miss Margaret Shea, of
Oconto, Wis. Her father was born in Canada and her mother in Scotland. To Mr.
and Mrs. Anderson have been born eight children, as follows: Kenneth, Grace,
Catherine, Margaret, Mary, Thomas, Charles and Wilma. Mr. Anderson has proven
himself to be a painstaking and efficient public officer, and is one of Johnson
county's substantial citizens.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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