William Anderson    

WILLIAM ANDERSON, farmer, post-office New Bedford, Penn. is a son of John and grandson of William Anderson, a pioneer of Mercer County, who immigrated to this county in company with his wife, Betsey (Adams) Anderson, and one child, the father of our subject. About 1796 John Anderson, a brother, followed and located a short distance from his brother William. He was known as “Agent John Anderson,” acting in that capacity for Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, of Pittsburgh, who owned large tracts of land in this and Lawrence Counties. He married Jane McFarland, and had six children, all of whom are dead, the last survivor, William R., dying on the old homestead June 27, 1888, aged seventy. He died in 1826, leaving an estate of 800 acres. William Anderson, the grandfather of our subject, and his son John, were progressive men of their day. They erected on their farm one of the first gristmills built in this county, and were also extensively engaged in the distilling business. John served with the army in the War of 1812. He married Ellen, daughter of William Crawford, of Mercer County, and by this marriage was the father of eleven children: William, Adam, deceased; James, deceased; David, Hiram, Robert, deceased; Alexander, of Fairview Township, Mercer County; Samuel, deceased; Betsey, wife of Frederick Breede, of Crawford County, Penn.; Ellen J., deceased, and Mary B., deceased. He married for his second wife Eliza, daughter of John and Jane (McFarland) Anderson, by whom he had four children: Lemuel, deceased; Julia, wife of James Keer, of Crawford County, Penn.; John and Louisa, deceased. He died in 1860 at the age of sixty-three. His father died in. 1859 at the age of ninety-three. William was the eldest son, and was born in 1817 on the old homestead, and was educated in the common schools. He was apprenticed to the carpenter’s trade, which business he followed for some ten years, then engaged in farming upon a part of the homestead, and has since followed farming. He married, in 1851, Miss Mary A., daughter of David and Kate (Gundy) Crawford, and they have one child, David W.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, pages 847-848.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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