John Quinn Anderson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1475-1476 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOHN QUINN ANDERSON, government trader at the Crow Creek Indian 
agency, in Buffalo county, is a native of the state of Missouri, having 
been born in Lagrange, Lewis county, on the 1st of January, 1866, and 
being a son of Captain Lee Anderson, who was born and reared in 
N7irginia, being of Scotch ancestry. He was an early settler in 
Missouri, where he passed the closing years of his life, having died 
when the subject was but seven years of age, and the latter having 
passed away five years later, at Dallas, Texas, in 1878. He thereafter 
lived in the home of an uncle until he had attained the age of fourteen 
years, having in the meanwhile attended the public schools as 
opportunity afforded. At the early age noted he went to Iowa, where he 
was for two years employed in a creamery, and then coming to what is now 
the state of South Dakota, where he arrived in the year 1882, locating 
in Mitchell, Davison county, and turning his hand to such work as he 
could secure. He assisted in building a portion of the line of the 
railroad between Mitchell and Aberdeen when nineteen years of age, and 
held the position of tie foreman He early identified himself with the 
cattle industry, buying and selling stock, while during the past few 
years he has also raised cattle, on a constant]y increasing scale. In 
1894 he started a stock ranch sixty miles west of Chamberlain, in Brule 
county, and has there continued operations most successfully, while he 
is at the present time one of the executive officers of the Western 
Stock Growers' Association. For a number of years past he has been a 
government beef contractor, and since March, 1901, he has been bonded 
Indian trader at Crow Creek Indian agency. In politics he is a staunch 
Republican, and fraternally is identified with the Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. 

	On the 16th of November, 1898, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage 
to Miss Clara L. Willrodt, who was born in the city of Davenport, Iowa, 
on the 30th of July, 1874, being a daughter of Senator Lawrence H. and 
Mary (Wagner) Willrodt, who are now residents of Brule county, South 
Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have no children. 

	When Mr. Anderson resided in Lyman county, South Dakota, he was 
named as a presidential elector for this year. He was a representative 
in the legislature from Lyman and Stanley counties in 1901.