P. W. Anderson

    P. W. Anderson was born in Clarke County, Ohio, April 23, 1831, and is one of the twelve children of James and Ruth (Vickers) Anderson, who were named Joseph, Peter, Mary (deceased), Elizabeth (deceased), William (deceased), Edward, Cecelia (deceased), Charles (deceased), Augustus, Howard, James L. and John. The father of Peter was born June 28, 1804 in Maryland; he was a farmer and stock-raiser, and died in 1871, in this township.

    P. W. Anderson, at the age of twenty-one, came to his present location. In April, 1861, he enlisted for three months in the Tenth Indiana Infantry, and was in the battle of Rich Mountain. In 1862, he re-enlisted in Company E, Eighty-sixth Indiana Infantry, as Sergeant; he was engaged at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Franklin and in minor engagements; and was discharged June, 1865.

    Mr. Anderson was married October 31, 1867 to Sarah B. Martin; they have three children -Nellie, Clifford and Gracie. He now resides three and a half miles northwest of Marshfield, on his farm of 180 acres (sixty acres of timber lying thee and a half miles southeast); the 120 acres are well cultivated, well drained, well improved, and producing good wheat, corn, oats and hay; he also raises some stock for his own use.

    In 1876 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and re-elected in 1880. Mr. Anderson is a member of the Masonic Order, the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Baptist Church.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.