Lewis G. Anderson
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 18 June 2003

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Franklin Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
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LEWIS G. ANDERSON, State Senator and grain dealer, Franklin; son of Kenneth and Mary (Chamberlain) Anderson; was born near Carlisle Dec. 8, 1826; he was reared on a farm; he was married, in the Jersey Settlement, Dec. 13, 1848, to Jane D., daughter of John and Sally Teneick, born in Jersey Settlement Oct. 4, 1829; they have had six children, five living – Derrick B., Charles M., Sally E. (deceased), Mary B., Howard B. and William G. In the fall of 1856, he bought 175 acres of land in Jersey Settlement, on Sections 3 and 34; farm known as the William T. Barkalow farm. He carried on farming till 1873, when being engaged quite extensively in grain and other business, he left the management of it to his son. In 1868, he was elected County Commissioner and served two terms. During his term of office, he worked very hard and was instrumental in some very important public improvements, among others the Orphans’ Asylum, Children’s Home and the Franklin Suspension Bridge, which crosses the Miami River and is a very fine piece of work. In 1876, he began in the grain and lumber business quite extensively, which he carries on in company with his son, Charles M., whom he admitted in 1879. He is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank. In the fall of 1881, he was elected to the State Senate from the Second Senatorial District. Himself and William A. Van Horn were the committee on construction of the Franklin Hydraulic water-power, of which he was also a director and treasurer. Mr. Anderson’s father, Kenneth, was among the early settlers of this township. He was the son of Lewis and Jane (Gaston) Anderson, born in Monmouth Co., N. J., in 1791, Sept. 30; he was reared on a farm. His father was in the war of the Revolution, and was captured on Sandy Hook and imprisoned in New York City one year, when he escaped. He came to Franklin in 1832 and died in 1838. Kenneth came here in 1815 and was married, in 1817, to Mary, daughter of John and Nancy Chamberlain, born in New Jersey in 1801; they had seven children, six now living – John S., Nancy, Lewis G., James C. and Jane G., Joseph C. (deceased) and William G. John, Jane and William are now in Kansas; the others are living in Jersey Settlement. His wife inherited 92 acres of land, one mile southwest of Carlisle Station, where he resided until the spring of 1879, when he came to Jersey Settlement to live with his son, Lewis G. His wife died in 1850; he worked at carpentering about ten years in the early part of his life; some of the buildings which he erected are still standing.


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