Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Anderson, William R. 1841 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  William R. Anderson, a Civil war veteran and one of Johnson county's
representative citizens, has been successfully engaged in farming in Gardner
township until within the last few years, during which he has rented his land
and practically retired. Mr. Anderson is a native of Ohio, being born in Belle
Center, Logan county, January 17, 1841, and is a son of John B. and Emily
(Hopkins) Anderson, both natives of Ohio. John B. Anderson was a son of Gretchen
Anderson, who was probably a native of Kentucky, and was a soldier in the War of
1812. Emily Hopkins, the mother of William R. Anderson, was a daughter of Hazard
Hopkins, a native of Virginia. John B. and Emily (Hopkins) Anderson spent their
lives on a farm in Logan county, Ohio. They cleared up a heavily timbered farm
and made a home in the wilderness and spent their later lives in their quiet
home which their industry had created. They were the parents of ten children:
Mary Elizabeth, Milton; Serilda, Amanda, John, William R., Margaret, Martha,
Hugh and Frank. William R. Anderson spent his boyhood days at home on the farm.
When the Civil war broke out, after serving in the Ohio militia for some time,
he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-second regiment, Ohio infantry.
He served in the army of the Potomac under Grant, participating in the terrific
fighting in front of Petersburg and Richmond. At the close of the war he
returned to his home in Ohio, and in November, 1866, was united in marriage to
Miss Emma, daughter of John Duff, of Logan county, Ohio, where she was born in
1847. After his marriage, Mr. Anderson bought the old home farm near Belle
Center and resided there until 1884 when he sold out and came west, locating in
Anderson county, Kansas, where he followed farming until 1888, when he traded
his Anderson county farm for his present farm in Gardner township. This is one
of the best appearing, well kept farms in the township. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
have been born six children, as follows: Effie, wife of W. S. Cubbison, Gardner;
J. M., farmer, Gardner; Charles, farmer, Gardner; Mamie, wife of Elmer Cubbison,
Springhill; Elmer McCamish; and Lola M., wife of L. Root, Rockford, Ill. Mr.
Anderson has been a lifelong Republican and cast his first vote for Abraham
Lincoln in 1864. He has taken a prominent part in local politics, both in
Anderson county and since coming to this county. He served fourteen years as
trustee of Gardner township and then gave up the office on account of his
health. He is a Methodist and has served as trustee of the church. His fraternal
affiliations are with the Grand Army of the Republic.

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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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