Lancaster County NeArchives Biographies.....Anderson, Charles Barney 1865 - 1931
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Source: Nebraskana
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Charles Barney Anderson 

Active as a banker and farm loan investor for the past thirty-five years,
Charles Barney Anderson was born at Gaines, Orleans County, New York, June 30,
1865. He is the son of Alva Bingham and Harriett Eliza (Bidelman) Anderson, the
former of whom was born at Gaines, May 9, 1836. A farmer his entire life, he
died at Albion, New York, August 15, 1886. His father was Matthew Anderson, his
grandfather Matthew Anderson and his great grandfather, John Anderson, all of
Scotch-Irish descent. Harriett Eliza Bidelman was born at Gaines, May 17, 1840,
a daughter of Samuel and granddaughter of Henry Bidelman. She is a leading
musician and active in musical circles.

Charles B. Anderson was educated in the district school, and was graduated from
Albion High School June 20, 1883. He later attended business college, and
engaged in the hardware business at Albion, New York, as bookkeeper and as owner
from 1883-87. A resident of Nebraska forty-three years, he was president and
cashier of the DeWitt Bank 1887-97; cashier Crete State Bank and vice president
1897-1916. From 1899 to 1918 he was president of the Conservative Investment
Company at Crete, and was vice president of the First Trust Company of Lincoln,
1919-24. For more than 10 years he was president of the Conservative Investment
Company of Blackwell, and El Reno, Oklahoma, and for the same period was vice
president of the Ord State Bank. In addition he has served as a director of
other banks, insurance companies, etc. At the present time he is not active
except in the handling of investments for a few friends.

A Republican, he was delegate to the national convention of 1896, from the 4th
Nebraska Congressional District; served as state senator 1903, from Saline
County; served as a member of the state senate from Lancaster County, 1921 and
1923, and from 1908-15, was a member of the board of regents of the University
of Nebraska.

Mr. Anderson’s first marriage was to May Clarissa Loveland, at Albion. She was
born at Albion, New York, September 11, 1865, and died at Crete, January 6,
1900. Of this marriage there are two children: Olsie M., born June 14, 1888, and
Delos L., born February 13, 1895, who married Eleanor Lillian Steenburg. On
January 15, 1901, Mr. Anderson married Mathilda Anna Miller of Crete. They have
four sons and daughters: Marion H., born May 4, 1902, who married Lloyd Hartley
Hobson; Margaret B., born April 6, 1904; Helen H., born July 27, 1906, and
Charles B., Jr., born October 24, 1910.

Since its organization in Lincoln, Mr. Anderson has been a member of the Kiwanis
Club, and has served as a director; he was a member of the school board at
Crete, and served thirty years as a trustee of Doane College. A life member of
the Chamber of Commerce, he is a former president and a present director of the
Social Welfare Society, and is a member of the Nebraska State Historical
Society, the Nebraskana Society and the Young Men’s Christian Association. He is
a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Shrine, and a member of
First Plymouth Congregational Church. His clubs are the Eastridge Country Club
of Lincoln, and the Golf Club of Alexandria, Minnesota. His sports are golf and
fishing.

The sudden death of Mr. Anderson occurred while on his vacation on June 27,
1931, at his summer home at Alexandria, Minnesota.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Nebraskana
Edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin & Robert Morton Baldwin

The Baldwin Company
Hebron, NE
1932

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