Hull, Lindley M., compiler and editor.  "A History of Central Washington,
Including the Famous Wenatchee, Entiat, Chelan and the Columbia Valleys."
Spokane: Press of Shaw & Borden Co., 1929.  p. 184.
 
AXEL F. and O. E. ANDERSON

     This association of names will recall to old time residents two young men
and brothers, who became identified with Wenatchee twenty-five and thirty years
ago.  Mr. A. F. came about the year 1898, and O. E. in 1902. Through
associations with the Poison Implement Company of Seattle, A. F. Anderson
established, and became manager of the Wenatchee Hardware Company. O. E.
Anderson is a native son of Washington, having been born in the Puget Sound
country.  The parents of these brothers, left New York in the late sixties, and
settled in Iowa. In 1875, they removed to Seattle, at a time when the most
conspicuous mark of business was the Yesler Sawmill. Soon after coming to
Wenatchee, A. F. Anderson was married to Miss Clara Moore, a native of
Washington. About the year 1907, Mr. Anderson sold his business to Wells &
Morris Hardware Company, and removed to Mountain Home, Idaho, where he has since
been engaged in farming. O. E. Anderson in 1923, was married to Miss Mary E.
Vannier, of Montana. They have a very pleasant home on Okanogan Avenue, and O.
E., or "Mike" as his friends are wont to call him, was for many years connected
with Morris Hardware Company, but at the present time in partnership with Henry
Padoshek, he is operating the Anderson Hardware Company on Wenatchee Avenue.
     
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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in April 2008 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.