Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Andrew O. ANDERSON

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Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V.  History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin:
its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company,
1908. v.2 p.854-5


Andrew O. Anderson, though still comparatively a young man, has
demonstrated what one can accomplish by a determined and persevering effort
in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties and obstacles. His
father, Mr. Ole Anderson, a tinsmith to trade, left Norway, his native
land, when he was nineteen years of age, and came to Columbia county,
Wisconsin, where he married Miss Bertha Oleson, and engaged in farming
there, making a home and rearing his family. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson reside
on the farm in Baron county, near the town of Rice Lake, moving there from
Columbia county in 1879. Here Andrew O. was born on May 11. 1871. When he
was ten years old, while at school at Rice Lake, he received an injury by
being struck in time eye with a piece of tin, which finally resulted in the
loss of his sight. At the age of sixteen he entered the school for the
blind at Janesville, Wis., and there spent eight years, completing the high
school course of study. During the years 1894-5 he gave his attention
especially to massage work, and was graduated in that branch of study and
practice in 1897, practicing during that year at the Winnebago hospital for
the Insane. In June of the same year he opened an office for the practice
of his profession in Oshkosh, and in the face of trying circumstances has
persevered with most gratifying results, building up a lucrative practice
and establishing a constantly growing reputation as a successful and
conscientious masseur. Mr. Anderson is a man of pleasing personality,
generous, sociable, genial, of courteous manner, hopeful and with high
ideals, and by his clean, upright, manly life holds the confidence and
esteem of all who know him. He is an active member of the First
Congregational Church of Oshkosh.