Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 1005.
 
HENRY T. ANDERSON

     was born on April 9, 1850, near St. Louis, Missouri. He now resides five
miles northeast from Merrill, where he owns a good estate and gives his
attention to farming and stock raising. His father, Richard Anderson, was born
in Virginia and came as a pioneer to the vicinity of St. Louis and served as a
soldier in the confederate army. During the battle of Prairie Grove, one of his
legs was shattered by a ball. Nevertheless he fought all through the battle and
died from the effects of the wound. His father was Richard Anderson, the
grandfather of our subject, and was a prominent planter of Virginia and owned
many slaves. Our subject's mother, Eliza (Brand) Anderson, died when he was a
small boy. He was the second of a family of three, the others being Mrs. Emma B.
Albin, of Chico, California and Robert C., near Merrill. Henry T. was reared on
a farm and educated in the public schools and in the spring of 1870 started
west. He finally landed in Sacramento valley and went to work for wages.
Afterwards, he rented a farm, then journeyed to Colusa county, California. In
1882, he moved to Ashland and wrought on the S. P. railroad. In the spring of
1884, he came. to Klamath county and took his present, place as, a homestead.
Here he has resided since. He also took a timber culture and then bought a
quarter section, which gave him the generous allowance of four hundred and
eighty acres which is all fenced and over three hundred acres in cultivation.
Among the improvements, is a seven room, two story house, large barn, plenty of
outbuildings, a good well and wind mill, orchard and other accessories. Some two
miles east from Merrill, Mr. Anderson owns three hundred and eighty acres of
choice farm land all under the plow. Two hundred and, twenty acres are producing
alfalfa and the other one hundred and sixty, grain. He has a nice large herd of
cattle, some horses, and a good many of them well bred. When Mr. Anderson
started here, he had no means and he has labored here to gain his present
holdings and is to be commended for the success he has achieved. He has won many
friends and a popularity in the county, which was demonstrated in 1898, when he
was elected county, commissioner on the Democratic ticket. For thirty-four years
he had been absent from his old home near St. Louis and in May, 1904,
accompanied by his wife, who had not seen her parents in Illinois for
twenty-eight years, he journeyed east and visited the world's fair and the old
farm places, both of his wife's and his own native home. The trip was fraught
with many pleasures and is one of the prominent incidents of Mr. Anderson's
life.
     On November 30, 1877, Mr. Anderson married Miss Mary Crawford who was born
in Perry county, Illinois, the daughter of Jacob J. and Eliza (Wiedon) Crawford,
natives of Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively. Mrs. Anderson is the oldest of
a family of twelve children. Her people moved to the Sacramento valley in 1876
and there her marriage occurred. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are
Frank, married to Grace Sims, of this county ; Charles I., Herbert E., Dora M.,
Pearlie, and Gladys E.  In 1882 Mr. Crawford came to Klamath county, then went
to Ashland and finally returned to this county, where he died in 1897, aged
sixty-six. His widow resides with her children.
     Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are good, substantial people, well known and highly
esteemed and their labors and uprightness have won for them much success and
many friends.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.