ANDERSON, Thomas T. (1844-1930)

ANDERSON

Posted By: DOROTHY WILLIAMSON (email)
Date: 1/12/2019 at 20:53:20

Thomas T was born March 125, 1844 in Antrim,
Guernsey county of Ohio. He was the fifth of nine boys,sons of Andrew and Mary Findley Anderson. At the age of 10 he moved with his parents to Iowa, locating at Davenport where they arrived Oct. 1854. From there the family moved to Oskaloosa in 1856. In 1857 they moved to the Village of Greenbush in Warren county, where he remained until 1861. In July enlisted in the Second Iowa Cavalry, He served four years and three months honorably discharged at the close of war in 1865. Engaged in forty-two battles among which was the seige of Corinth, participated in battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn. At close of war went into business for himself in St. Charles. On Oct. 18, 1866 he married Clara Liston of Indianola to which four children were born Nellie, Thomas, Edar L. and Eva A. Hatfield. Elected Clerk of Courts, at close of second term he with his brother J. M. Anderson purchased the Indianola Herald of which T. T. became the editor. During Harrison administration he was appointed postmaster of Indianola and served four years. During 25 years when he edited the Herald he served on the Congressional committee and for four years on the republican state central committee. In 1908 he was elected as one of the electors-at-large on th Taft ticket and was chosen by the electoral college as the messenger to carry the Iowa returns to Washington. He was twice married, his second wife being Lydia A. McCool of Topeka Ks. a woman of wide repute as a missionary in the United Presbyterian church. She died Oct. 11, 1911. He sold his interest in the Indianola Herald to his brother J. M. Anderson and in Oct. 1912 moved to San Francisco where his son E. L. Anderson was in business, He remained there four years afterward taking up his permanent home in Long Beach with his daughter Eva A. Hatfield. He died at 9:30 Thursday morning July 3, 1930 at the age of 86 years 8 months and 8 days. His passing was as the going to sleep of an aged man as he did not suffer from any cause whatever. [copied from a scrapbook of newspaper articles at the Warren County Historical Society Library, Indianola , IA]