Robert C. Anderson

    Robert C. Anderson is a native of Boone County, Kentucky, born January 8, 1825, and is a son of William G. and Catharine (Cook) Anderson, the former a native of Maryland, the latter of Pennsylvania. In 1830, the family moved to Fountain County, Indiana where his father had entered and cleared some land and erected a log cabin, in all of which Robert as a boy assisted. His father died when he was thirteen, when our subject attended school at Attica, and afterward learned the blacksmithing trade, at which he served four years. In 1849, after merchandising at Painesville, he went to California over the plains, and there cut wood for ex-Governor Booth, at $8 per day and board. He soon saved $3,000 by various labors, and in 1850 returned to Indiana and located in Warren County, where he farmed on rented land and purchased some in Illinois.

    November 22, 1854, he married Letitia Fryback, daughter of John and Letitia (Emerson) Fryback, of Pickaway County, Ohio. After his marriage, he lived in Illinois one year, had a grocery in Attica some time, and in 1858 came to this township and purchased a farm. He now has 234 acres, with good buildings and improvements. He is a Republican and an Odd Fellow. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have ten children -Alice C., Llewellyn F., Edgar E., Robert C., Serena M., Anna L., James A., John F., Bessie N. and Susanna.

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