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Born 1844
From History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882)
EDMUND L. ANDERSON, dry goods merchant (son of Harrison Anderson), was born in Greensfork Township in 1844. He married Lvdia P. Paxson June, 1865, and moved to Union City in 1873. He enlisted in the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, July, 1863, and was discharged January, 1865. They have had four children. He was for three years a farmer, five years he sold goods at Spartansburg, in the firm of Anderson & Hill, for three years, in the boot and shoe business at Union City, under the firm of Paxson & Anderson, and has been four years doing business alone in dry goods, clothing, hats and caps, boots and shoes, carpets, etc. Mr. Anderson was for fourteen years a Deacon in the Disciple Church, but some time ago, for reasons of his own, resigned the position. He has been on active temperance worker, and was a zealous church member. In 1879, he purchased Oak Grove, N. Howard, upon which he built an elegant residence. There are now standing upon the premises about three hundred trees of various kinds, from fifteen to twenty-five feet high, forming already a grateful shade, and promising in future a high degree of beauty and comfort. Mr. Anderson is still a young man (thirty-six years), but he has already achieved a flattering success, and may hope, through the Divine blessing, for many years of activity and usefulness. In the summer of 1880, he sold out his stock of goods, and spent some time in traveling through Nebraska, Dakota, Texas, etc. In February, 1881, Mr. -anderson purchase I of Mr. G. Fowler his stock of groceries, and resumed business, this time as a grocer. In March, 1882, Mr. Andet-son sold out his establishment to Stephen Ladd, long a resident of Union City, and later removed his business to Bloomingtoii, Ill. He is at present spending time upon his farm in the vicinity of.Sparlansburg, having built and furnished there a fine residence.
As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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