An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 249-250

MILTON J. ANDERSON, second ranger of the United States Forest Reserve, residing
at The Dalles, Wasco county, was born in Sacramento county, California, October
11, 1860. His father, Hartford Anderson, was a native of Scotland, coming to the
United States and locating in Pennsylvania with his parents when a child. He was
a ship carpenter, and died in Sacramento, California. The mother, a native of
the North of Ireland, died in 1874.      

Folsom, California, was the scene of our subject's youth and early manhood. He
was educated in the public schools of that town, attended the high school and
acquired an excellent business education. He remained in California until he was
twenty years of age, was four years a drug clerk, and four years in the Pacific
Carriage Works in Sacramento, and became a carriage ironer. In 1884 he came to
Wasco county and opened a blacksmith shop, manufacturing all descriptions of
carriage iron. He organized the Summer Fallow Machine Company in 1889, and began
the manufacture of cultivators. The company discontinued business in 1902, and
shortly afterward he was appointed to his present position with the forest
reserve. For many years Mr. Anderson has been an enthusiastic advocate of
forestry and forest protection, and was a member and prime mover in the first
Forest Protection Association, organized in Oregon. He was secretary of the
association four years, and his efforts in that line were cordially recognized
by the government. On being appointed to the position of ranger he removed to
The Dalles from Dufur, disposing of his home in the latter town.      

Politically he is a Republican and has served as delegate to nearly every state
and county convention since 1883. He has served two terms as mayor of Dufur, and
one term as chairman of the board of school directors. Mr. Anderson drafted the
original charter of the city of Dufur, and in 1893 proceeded with it to Salem
and secured its adoption. He is a member of the W.O.T.W., No. 215: charter
member of the Council and was commander the first three years of its existence.
He has four brothers and one sister: Levi H., a miner of Sacramento, California:
Charles A. and Edward H., in the employment of the Central Pacific Railway, in
California; William A., an attorney and ex-member of the California legislature,
now probate judge in Sacramento; and Maggie, single, a teacher in the grammar
school of Sacramento. June 27, 1886, at Wamic, Wasco county, Oregon, Mr.
Anderson was married to Ella M. Rodman, born in Utah. Her parents are William R.
and Louisa Rodman, living at Wamic. She has one brother and four sisters: Hugh,
a farmer near Walla Walla, Washington; Ruth, wife of Daniel Crowley, of
Antelope; Laura, married to James Palmer, of Portland, Oregon; Belle, wife of
Joseph H. Prout, a forest ranger living at Wamic; and Elsie, wife of David
Campbell, a farmer near Wamic. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have four children, Alvis
M., H. Vernon, Malcolm and Irene, aged sixteen, thirteen, eleven and one years,
respectively. Our subject has been clerk of the house or senate of the Oregon
legislature every session since 1891. He is a member of the American Forestry
Association, Washington, D.C.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.