OBIT: Albert James ANDERSON, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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A. J. Anderson

  A. J. Anderson, a pioneer Altoona business man and a promoter and 
incorporator of a number of public service corporations and public 
institutions of the city, died at 2.15 o'clock yesterday morning at the 
Mt. Hope hospital, Baltimore, where he had been ill for some time.  
Death was due to diseases incident to old age.
  Mr. Anderson, who was aged 81, was prominent in the mercantile 
business in Blair county in the early days, and later, on coming to 
Altoona thirty-five years ago, became interested in a great number of 
branches of business, as well as being a promoter of a number of 
projects for civic betterment.
  He was born at Newry, Blair county, February 28, 1836.  As a young 
man, he engaged in the mercantile business in East Freedom and then 
went to Martinsburg, where he conducted a general store for some time.
  He came to Altoona thirty-five years ago and entered the clothing 
business where the Westfall Co. store is now located.  He was one of 
the original promoters of the Edison Electric Illuminating company when 
it started in 1887, and was also one of the men who established the 
Mountain City Electric Light company.  In his affiliation with the 
Edison company he was head of the corporation for many years.  He was a 
director in the Second National bank and of the Fidelity and several 
other Building and Loan associations.  In 1882 he was one of the 
organizers of the City Passenger Railway company and was later 
interested in the Union Furnace Manufacturing company, located at that 
place and was for years actively engaged in the real estate business in 
this city.  Mr. Anderson served two terms in select council and was 
president of the select body during 1889.  He was one of the 
incorporators of the Altoona hospital and was one of the early members 
of the Altoona Mechanics' library.
  He was preceded to the grave by his wife, who died eight years ago, 
and is survived by two daughters and one son, Mrs. C. E. Wolf, Miss 
Magdalen C., at home, and C. F. Anderson, of this city.  One sister, 
Mrs. J. E. Carroll, of Buffalo, N.Y., also survives.  He was a faithful 
and consistent member of St. John's Catholic church, where the funeral 
will be held with requiem high mass will [sic] be celebrated at 9 
o'clock Wednesday morning followed by burial in St. John's cemetery.  
(Please omit flowers.)

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, January 29, 1917

St. John's Cemetery, Altoona, Pa. -
Anderson, Albert James, 1836-1917