W.G. Anderson Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted By Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: W. G. Anderson: was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1834. He learned the blacksmith trade and followed that business as his vocation until 1861, then he enlisted in company L, 28th regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served one month in said regiment, and then was transferred to Knapp's Pennsylvania Battery. The last year he served as a veteran, and received his discharge at the close of the war. Returned home and resumed his trade as his vocation. He married Miss R. J. Maple, in 1868. They settled in Wellsville, Ohio, and in 1875, they moved to the place where they are now living -- located in Clay District, near the Pennsylvania line. They have a family of five children -- three sons and two daughters.