Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Anderson, John N. October 18, 1835 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 412
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

JOHN N ANDERSON is one of Fayette county's successful 
teachers, earnest institute worker, and is a veteran of 
twenty nine years experience in the school room.

    His grandfather Anderson was a native of Wales and 
married a lady of German descent.  They had a son, George S 
Anderson, born September 15, 1810, in Frederick county, 
Maryland, who married Miss Mary Ann Nelson, born near 
Rainesburg, Bedford county, Penna, October 19, 1808.  To 
this union were born six children: the eldest, Sarah Jane 
Anderson, died before her third birthday.  Two sons and one 
daughter are living in Fayette county, and one daughter, 
Nancy Ellen Anderson, resides in West Virginia.  

    John N Anderson, the second child, and eldest of these 
children living, was born in Menallen township, Fayette 
county, Penna, October 18, 1835. In childhood John N 
Anderson was delicate in health, and his opportunities for 
schooling were limited.  His school attendance was under the 
crude system of public schools when the branch in which the 
master was most proficient was the birch branch.  

    January 1, 1854, he entered the printing office of the 
Pennsylvania Democrat, now Republican Standard, and remained 
two years.  During this time he applied himself so 
assiduously to his studies during his spare moments that he 
passed an examination in 1856 under County Superintendent 
Joshua V Gibbons and entered the profession of teaching.  
Since 1856 Mr Anderson has been thus engaged except four 
years devoted to other pursuits, and is now engaged in his 
twenty ninth year of teaching. 

    He served one year in the Civil War as sergeant in 
Battery K, Sixth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, and was 
honorably discharged at Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia, June 13, 
1865.  His regiment successfully watched John S Mosby, and 
helped guard the National capital.

    March 25, 1862, he was married to Miss Maggie Turner, 
daughter of John and Eliza Turner; the former was born in 
Virginia, and the latter a native of Baltimore.  Mr Anderson 
has one child: Ella Lorena Anderson, wife of Charles R Trew, 
a mining engineer who is now in charge of Uniondale mines.  

    In politics Mr Anderson is a republican, but not radical 
in his views.  A Protestant in religion, he favors the 
Methodist church, and is a prominent member of several 
orders: P W C T of the G T, a Scarlet Degree member of the 
Fort Necessity Lodge, I O O F, a P P Commander of Dunbar 
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, a Past Chancellor of 
Dunbar Lodge, K of P, and a Past District Deputy Grand 
Chancellor of the First K of P, District of Fayette County.  
He is a frequent contributor to Pythian literature, and 
several very able and eloquent articles of his have appeared 
in the most prominent Pythian periodicals.  

    The following is from one of his articles: "Sentiment is 
one thing, opinion is another.  Sentiment is a link that 
joins man to man.  Opinions are the separating wedges that 
divide man from man in an intellectual point of view.  
Sentiments in their primitive state area elementary, 
synthetic and concrete, and serve to bind together in 
harmony the human family.  Opinions, rationally viewed, may 
be said to be composite, serve to divide, to separate, and 
to scatter." 

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