The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 656 A portrait of Charles J. Anderson appears in this publication. CHARLES J. ANDERSON. Charles J. Anderson is the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of land in the vicinity of Ellensburg, one hundred and eighty acres of which he has brought under a high state of cultivation and is devoting to the raising of hay and grain. He was born in Sweden on the 5th of November, 1867, a son of Swan and Christina (Nelson) Anderson, both of whom are deceased. In 1886, when nineteen years of age, Charles J. Anderson determined to try his fortune on this side of the Atlantic and after landing on American shores made his way into the interior of the country to Champaign county, Illinois, where he remained for two and a half years. It was on the expiration of that period that he came to the northwest, arriving in Roslyn, Kittitas county, Washington, on the 3d of December, 1889. He was first employed on a ranch for one year but during the following eleven years worked in the mines. In 1904 he took up his abode on a ranch in the Kittitas valley which he had purchased in July, 1902, and whereon he has remained continuously to the present time. It comprises three hundred and twenty acres of land, one hundred and eighty acres of which is devoted to the cultivation of hay and grain, of which he annually, gathers excellent crops. Mr. Anderson has erected substantial new barns on the place and has made the many improvements which have converted it into one of the fine ranch properties of the valley. His well directed efforts have been attended with a gratifying measure of prosperity and he has won an enviable reputation as a substantial and enterprising agriculturist of Kittitas county. Politically Mr. Anderson is a stanch republican, supporting the men and measures of that party at the polls. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Lake Valley Lodge, No. 112, at Roslyn, in which he has filled all of the chairs. Coming to the new world in early manhood, he eagerly availed himself of the opportunities offered in this country and through persistency of purpose and unfaltering energy has worked his way steadily upward to a position among the successful farmers and representative citizens of his community. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.