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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

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           WILLIAM ANDERSON, farmer, section 11, Caseville Township, was
        born Feb. 23, 1834, in Berwickshire, Scotland. His parents, GEORGE
        and JANE (YOUNG) ANDERSON, are both deceased.  His father died in
        Scotland, about the age of 59 years.  MR. ANDERSON emigrated with
        his mother, four brothers and a sister-in-law, in 1852, to America,
        landing at Montreal. They purchased a farm in Beauharnois Co.,
        Province of Quebec, where they lived eight years. In 1860, three
        brothers, ANDERSON, came to Huron County and purchased wild land
        in Caseville Township. There were then no improvements of any
        description there, and but a few traces of the dishonest lumbering
        which had been carried on previously. They guided their location by
        Government lines, there being no roads. Wild game, especially deer,
        was abundant. The claim secured by MR. ANDERSON included 160 acres,
        of which he has cleared 40 acres and placed it under good culti-
        vation.
           MR. ANDERSON was married Sept. 27, 1867, to MARY A., daughter of
        IRVIN and MARGARET McPHERSON. Her father was born in Glenelg,
        Furnesshire, Scotland, in 1794. He emigrated to America in 1802
        with his grandmother, mother and four brothers. His grandfather was
        a soldier in the British army during the Revolutionary War, and was
        in prison eight years in North Carolina. The father was a soldier
        in the British forces during the War of 1812. The mother of MRS.
        ANDERSON was born in 1802 and died in Canada in 1841. Her father
        died at St. Urbain, Can., about 1870. She was born at that place
        May 12, 1834, and is one of a family of 11 children. (She had a
        twin brother.) WM. McPHERSON was born March 17, 1824; DONALD, Feb.
        7,1826; KENNETH, March 28, 1828; ANGUS, March 3, 1830; JOHN, Feb.
        14, 1832; MURDOCH (twin brother of MRS. ANDERSON), May 12, 1834.
        His birth occurred the day after that of his sister; CHRISTINA,
        July 24, 1836; ISABELLA, Oct. 3, 1838; MARGARET M., Jan. 3, 1841
        (died Dec. 21, 1868).
           MR. ANDERSON was drafted Sept. 27,1864, and was assigned to Co.
        F, 15th Mich. Vol. Inf., CAPT. W. W. HUBBELL, GENERAL OLIVER,
        Brigade Commander, of Second Division and 15th Army Corps, of the
        Cumberland. He was discharged in May, 1865. The regiment was in the
        corps of GENERAL SHERMAN at Goldsboro, N.C., and MR. ANDERSON saw
        plenty of skirmish warfare. His brother, JOHN, was drawn in the
        next draft and they met on the field, when MR. ANDERSON learned of
        the death of his mother, whom he left in health.
           MR. ANDERSON is a Republican, and with his wife is a member of
        the Presbyterian Church, in which they were reared.

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