C. J. Anderson Biography


	This biography appears on page 1891 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	C. J. ANDERSON, of Plankinton, the capital of Aurora county, was 
born in the city of Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio. He secured his 
early educational discipline in the common schools and supplemented 
this by a course of study in the Ohio State Normal School, where he 
continued his discipline until he had attained the age of twenty-one 
years. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Western Army and with 
which he continued in active service for four years and three months, 
representing practically the entire period of the war. He received his 
honorable discharge and then returned to his home in Zanesville, where 
he remained until he removed to Delavan, Illinois, where he maintained 
his home for a number of years, having been engaged in the hardware 
business for the major portion of the time. He then came to South 
Dakota, and located in Aurora county, taking up a homestead claim 
adjoining the site of the present city of Plankinton, and becoming one 
of the founders of the town, while he was also concerned in the 
organization of the county. Soon after his arrival he established the 
first mercantile business in the town, having a small building in which 
he installed a stock of general merchandise, while later he gave his 
attention entirely to the hardware business, in which he was engaged 
until he disposed of his interests in the line and established his 
present enterprise, having a well-appointed establishment, in which he 
carries a fine assortment of clothing and furnishing goods, while he 
controls a large and representative trade.

	In politics Mr. Anderson has ever given a staunch support to the 
Republican party, taking an active part in the promotion of its cause, 
while he has been called upon to serve in various positions of public 
trust. He received from the board of county commissioners the 
appointment to the office of register of deeds, and became ex-officio 
county clerk, the two offices having been jointly administered for a 
number of years. He held the dual office under this appointment for a 
period, and then was elected to fill the same, and was chosen as his 
own successor at the expiration of his first regular term. Fraternally 
he is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Ancient 
Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss 
Elizabeth Gates, of Delavan, Wisconsin, and they have three children.