JOHN GRANT ANDERSON, general manager of the Tyrone and Williamsburg Paper
Mills of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company is one of the leading
business men of Tyrone, Pa. He was born in Coshocton County, O., October 29,
1863, and is a son of Dr. John and Anna (Stevenson) Anderson.
     Dr. John Anderson was born in Ohio in 1817, and died in Coshocton County
in 1888, where he had practiced medicine for a number of years. He married
Anna Stevenson, who was born in Maryland and died in Coshocton County, O., in
1878, aged fifty-one years. Of their family of seven children, one son died in
infancy and three sons and three daughters are living. Sarah is the wife of
Joseph K. Cass, of Tyrone. Annie M. is the wife of Samuel Irvine, of
Pittsburg. Ida M. is unmarried and resides at Tyrone. Leroy K. is a paper
salesman in business at Chicago. Charles E. is in the drug business at
Coshocton, O.  John Grant completes the family.
     John G. Anderson was educated in the Coshocton schools and graduated
from the Coshocton High School in 1880, after which he completed a business
course in a commercial college and in 1881 he entered the employ of the well
known paper firm of Morrison. Cass & Co. This subsequently became the
Morrison & Cass Paper Company, which now operates under the style of the West
Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. In 1890, Mr. Anderson came to Tyrone as
secretary and treasurer of the Morrison & Cass Paper Company and since its
consolidation has been general manager of the West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Company's Tyrone and Williamsburg mills. Mr. Anderson was reared in the
Presbyterian faith. He is a Republican in his political views.