JOSEPH A. ANDERSON
                           WELSH, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 138.

Contributed by Margaret Moore                         


Joseph A. Anderson, planter, Was born in Atlantic county, New
Jersey, September 3,1845. He is the son of William and Aehas
(Allen) Anderson, natives of Virginia and New Jersey,
respectively. They were married in New Jersey, and became the
parents of four children, three sons and one daughter, viz:
Joseph A., the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth L., wife of
Walter Balfour, of Pocahontas county, Iowa; Achas A., wife of
Samuel Bowell, of Pocahontas county, Iowa; Moranda. William
Anderson, with his family, removed to Rock Island, Illinois, in
1857. He was by occupation a glass blower. After removing to
Illinois he engaged in farming.

The subject of this sketch received a good business education in
the schools of New Jersey and Illinois. He has been a farmer
since beginning business life for himself. In 1863 Mr. Anderson
enlisted in the United States army, Company A, Ninth Iowa
Cavalry, in which company he served until the close of the war.
After the war he returned to Illinois, and was there engaged in
farming, until 1888, when he removed with his family to Calcasieu
parish Louisiana, arid purchased a farm of three hundred and
twenty acres of land. I He has given his principal attention to
rice culture, in which he has been successful. Mr. Anderson was
married, in 1868, to Miss Carrie I,. Robbins, daughter of Isaac
and Louvincia (Prentiss) Robbins. Her father was a native of
Pennsylvania and her mother of Ohio. Mr. Anderson is a member of
the Masonic order.