Col. Henry W. Anderson Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: ANDERSON
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 788

     COL. HENRY W. ANDERSON, proprietor of an umbrella factory,
also of an asbestos factory, at Exeter. N. H., who has also for two years
been a member of Governor McLane's staff, was born at Bath, Me..
Nov. 28, 1864, a son of Samuel and Almina M.(Norton) Anderson.
Both hiS parents were natives of Maine, the father being a druggist by
occupatIon.
     Henry W. Anderson in his youth acquired a good practical educa-
tion. He learned the drug business under his father and followed it for
awhile, afterwards entering into the coal and wood business, at Exeter,
N. H. He established his present manufacturing business at Exeter in
1912, and is successfully carrying on both factories.
     Mr. Anderson is a Republican in politics and for a number of years
has been quite active in public affairs, having served two different times
in the legislature. He was one of the first police commissioners of the
town of Exeter, also a member of the board of trustees of the New
Hampshire State Hospital. He married Helen Louise Dutch, a native
of Epping, N. H., and daughter of John C. and Harriet (Goodman)
Dutch. He and his wife have four children: Merrill, Martha, Helen and
Janet.