Biographical Sketch of Dr. John T. Anderson, Johnson County, Missouri,
Post Oak Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Dr. John T. Anderson, a leading medical practitioner of Johnson county,
who has practiced continously in Post Oak township for the past twenty-
seven years, is a native son of Missouri and is descended from one of
the oldest pioneer families of Johnson county.  He was born in Henry
county, Missouri, November 21, 1869, son of Andrew J. and Mary A. 
(Swift) Anderson, who were well known and highly respected residents of
Henry county for many years.  Andrew J. Anderson, the father, was born
in Johnson county on a farm north of Warrensburg in 1844 and was a son
of John Anderson who was born in Virginia in 1795, son of John Anderson
"My Jo John," of whom the poet Burns, sang.  The grandather of Dr. 
Anderson migrated to Johnson county, Missouri in the early twenties,
about 1825, and entered government land, developing a farm which is now
owned by Judge Wood.  In the year 1850, he left his first homestead and
moved to a farm south of Cornelia.  He reared a family of eleven child-
ren; of whom Andrew J. Anderson was the youngest.  During the Civil War
the elder Anderson was a captain in the Home Guards and commanded the
company of which Andrew J. was a member.  Andrew J. Anderson attended 
the early "subscription schools" in Johnson county and was taught by 
the noted "Bill" Stewart who was afterward killed by Judge Burford.  He
accompanied his parents to Henry county and in 1882 was united in marr-
iage with Mary A. Swift, who was born and reared in Henry county, where
her parents had removed from Lonejack.  Her father, Shelby Swift, was a
miller and operated a mill known as the Swift Mill, in Henry county. 
Mr. and Mrs. Swift died of typhoid fever when the mother of Dr. Ander-
son was quite young.  Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were married in 1868.  Mrs.
Sharp is Dr. Anderson's only living sister and their mother, Mrs.
Anderson, resides with her.  Andrew J. Anderson died in 1898, after an
active and industrious life as a farmer and stockman.  Dr. Anderson 
received his early education in the public school at Hummingdale, Miss-
ouri and began the study of medicine when sixteen years old in the 
office of Dr. E. C. Royston, of Henry county, with whom he studied for
two years.  He also studied for a short time with Dr. H. E. Pitcher, of
Chilhowee.  When but nineteen years of age, Dr. Anderson entered the 
old Missouri Medical College which is now incorporated as the Medical
Department of Washington University.  This was the first medical school
established in the state of Missouri.  Dr. Anderson graduated from this
institution in 1889 and after one year's practice at Blairstown he
entered the office of Dr. Ward in Post Oak township and practiced with 
Dr. Ward for nine years.  Since that time he has practiced on his own
account very successfully.  He moved to his present place of residence
in 1891 and has enjoyed a remunerative, continous practice for twenty-
seven years.  During this time he has made a host of warm, steadfast
friends and has established himself as one of the ranking physicians in
this section of Missouri.  Dr. Anderson was married to Minnie D. Carr,
of Shawnee Mound, Henry county, June 21, 1893.  To this union have been
born two very interesting children: Beulah W., who is a graduate of
Forest Park University at St. Louis and received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts from Missouri Univerity in 1916, and during the past year has
been head of the English Department of Forest Park University; and John
Galen, the second child, is a graduate of the Missouri Military School
located at Mexico, Missouri, studied one year at Westminister College,
Fulton, Missouri, and was enrolled as a dental student at Washington
University when he enlisted as a member of Hospital Unit Number 21, for
duty in France among the wounded soldiers of the allies.  Mrs. Minnie
D. (Carr) Anderson is a daughter of Thomas J. Carr, a miller of Henry
county, and Martha R. (Howerton) Carr, and a granddaughter of Judge
Richard Carr, who was one of the early pioneers of Lafayette county and
served as judge of the county court for several terms.  Dr. and Mrs.
Anderson are well educated, refined, likeable people, who take a keen
interest in the affairs of the world and are highly esteemed for their
usefulness to humanity.  Mrs. Minnie Anderson is a graduate of the
Baptist Female College of Lexington, Missouri; studied at the Warrens-
burg Normal and at the Bayard Female College, Clinton, Missouri.  She
won a medal for excellence in art at the Baptist Female College of 
Lexington.  Dr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Christian church.
Dr. Anderson is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; of
the Johnson county, the Missouri State, and the American Medical Assoc-
iations; and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
of Washington, D. C.

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