Thomas J. Anderson

ANDERSON, NEALANDERSON, NEAL

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Date: 5/8/2006 at 21:43:38

Attorney. Among the prominent legal practitioners of Marion county may be mentioned the subject of this sketch. He was born in Fulton county, Illinois, on the fourth day of March, 1837, and resided there until sixteen years of age. In 1853 he came with his parents to Marion county, Iowa. His early life was spent on a farm and his time was divided between farm duties in summer and attending school in winter. When seventeen years of age he purchased his time of his father and spent some years in teaching and attending school. In 1858 he was elected county surveyor, and having made choice of law as a profession, he commenced reading with Hon. J. E. Neal, an attorney of wide reputatuon. After a thorough preparation he was admitted to the bar in October, 1860, and has practiced continuously, excepting when absent in the service of his country. In the autumn of 1862 he enlisted in the Fortieth Iowa infantry, company A, and was commissioned first lieutenant and afterward promoted to captain and while holding that position resigned on the second day of December, 1864, and returned to Knoxville.

History of Marion County, 1881, p. 542