Branch County MI Archives Biographies.....Anderson, James March 18, 1817 - 
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON JAMES ANDERSON

James Anderson, a prominent and substantial businessman, is a resident of
Coldwater, where he conducts the Marble and Granite Steam Works.  .... came from
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and is the son of John and Isabella (Watson) Anderson.
 James was the fifth of seven children, and was born March 18, 1817.  The others
are recorded as follows:  Isabella was born March 4, 1810, and became the wife
of James Canse, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and died August, 1880; Ann was born Aug. 14,
1811 and is the wife of John Thomson, now living in Wilmington, Ill.; Elizabeth
was born Aug. 21, 1813 and died in Brooklyn in June 1838; William was born Nov.
12, 1814; Jane was born March 3, 1819, and died in the old country at age 7;
Mary was born March 4, 1820, and became the wife of William Kelso, of Gilead,
Mich., and died Feb. 1876.

John Anderson, the father of our subject, was born at Buchan, Aberdeenshire, the
son of Robert Anderson, and grandson of Robert Anderson, all natives of the same
shire.  John Anderson was a carpenter by trade.  He emigrated to the New World
in 1835, landing in New York on the 10th of May.  His father died in Gilead
Township, Mich., Feb. 12, 1852.  The mother of our subject was born in the same
neighborhood in Scotland as her husband, and was second in order of birth in a
family of four children ... James, Isabella, Jane & Elizabeth.  She died in
Gilead Township, this county, in September, 1838.

On the 11th of April 1839, James Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Mulligan, who was the eldest in a family of four children - Mary, Helen, Daniel
and Thomas - born to Michael & Mary Mulligan.  Her parents emigrated from
Dublin, Ireland, about 1816, settling in Boston, where the wife of our subject
was born in 1822.  The family removed to New York City, where she resided until
her marriage.  She departed this life April 25, 1881.  Their union was blessed
by the birth of four children - Mary was born Feb. 12, 1840, and married
Chauncey DeClute; William was born Oct. 3, 1841; Isabella was born Nov. 15,
1843, and married Milton Bartells, while Elizabeth, who was born Jan. 12, 1850,  



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