BIO:  Anderson - Mercer & Laurel Cos

History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885

Pike County, Marion Township, page 449-50

WILLIAM T. ANDERSON was born in Dubois County, Ind., December 13, 1833, and is a
son of Andrew and Mary Anderson, who were natives of Mercer County, Ky. The
mother died in 1844, and the father took for his second wife Obedience Williams,
of Kentucky.  They are among the old pioneer settlers of Indiana, who came here
in 1816.  He married in Indiana, and settled on a farm in Dubois Coutny, where
both parents died.  Our subject remained with his parents until he attained the
age of eighteen years, when he began working for himself.  January 10, 1856, he
took for his life companion, Nancy Jones, of Laurel County, Ky., and they became
the parents of nine children:  Sebastian, Mary Josephine (deceased), Ella
(deceased), Clora, (wife of Zeno Hobbs), Andrew and Amanda (twins), May, William
Beecher and Eva.  Mr. Anderson and family are earnest workers in the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, and aid by their influence and money, all enterprises for
the public good.  Mr. Anderson is a Republican, and was county commissioner of
Pike County for three years.  He is a successful farmer, and a worthy and useful
citizen.

From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 21 May 1998