Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 4. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 52.

	D. W. ANDERSON has resided since 1885 upon the place that is now his 
home, comprising one hundred and sixty acres which is devoted to general 
farming.  His land is not far from Olene, in Klamath county.  He has 
successfully introduced several modern processes, giving special study to the 
subject of dry farming and demonstrating the excellent results that can be 
accomplished by that method.  He was born in Farmington, Van Buren county, 
Iowa, February 22, 1836, a son of Andrew E. and Angeline (Millard) Anderson.  
The father was born in Oswego, New york, and the mother in Massachusetts, and 
following their marriage they removed westward to Iowa, where Andrew E. 
Anderson carried on farming and also worked at the cooper's trade until 1852, 
when he went to California, where he was joined by his wife in 1861.  Her 
death occurred about nine miles below Sacramento and Mr. Anderson passed away 
in Jacksonville, Oregon.  While in California he engaged in mining until 1862, 
and then turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, to which he devoted 
his energies throughout the remainder of his life.  In the family were four 
children: D. W.; Mrs. Amanda Slocum, who has passed away; Mrs. Ellen Fassett, 
of Sacramento, California; and Albert, of Stockton, California.
	D. W. Anderson spent the first twenty years of his life at the place 
of his nativity and in 1856 joined his father in California, going to the 
coast by way of the isthmus route.  He then followed placer mining for about 
three years, after which he went to Jackson county, Oregon, where he remained 
for seven years.  He there worked as a laborer part of the time but he was 
ambitious to engage in business of his own account and made his plans with 
that end in view.  At length he felt his capital was sufficient to justify his 
taking up farming for himself and in 1885 he came to his present place, 
homesteading one hundred and sixty acres near Olene, Klamath county, on which 
he has now resided for twenty-seven years.  While he carries on general 
farming he makes a specialty of raising potatoes and melons and that his 
methods are progressive and resultant is indicated in the fact that he won 
five premiums on dry farming at the Klamath County Fair in 1909, securing 
those on watermelons, cantaloupes, green corn, squash, and crabapples.  He 
works hard, accomplishes results and has become well established as one of the 
representative agriculturists of his community.  Moreover, he is well known as 
a healer of both sciatic and inflammatory rheumatism, to which he has devoted 
a part of his time during the past fifty years.
	Mr. Anderson has been married twice.  In 1861 he wedded Miss Mary Jane 
Dean, a native of Baltimore who died in 1879, leaving four children: George, a 
resident of Josephine county, Oregon; Geneva, the wife of Peter Bauer, of 
Olene, Oregon; Walter, of California; and Willie, who died at the age of nine 
years.  On the 25th of July, 1885, Mr. Anderson was again married, his second 
union being with Dora Hull, who was born in Jackson county, Oregon, July 25, 
1866.  They have become the parents of ten children, of whom Alzada, Paul and 
Pauline are deceased.  Those living are Oscar Raymond, Myron, Freeman, 
Wilbert, Estella, Nava and Truman.
	Although Mr. Anderson has reached the age of seventy-six years he is 
still hale and hearty and is an active business man accomplishing results 
through enterprising, progressive and scientific methods and making for 
himself a creditable position among the representative farmers of Klamath 
county.

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