USMA Class of 1871. Cullum No. 2374.
Brigadier General.
There is a cenotaph for him in Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where his parents are buried.
The cemetery is located in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey.
He was the son of John Hill Anderson and Susan Ogden Lewis Anderson.
He never married.
Anderson graduated fifth in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1871. He was assigned to the 6th Cavalry as a 2nd Lieut. He served as Acting Engineer officer for the Department of the Missouri in 1875, as Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West point from 1877 to 1881, as Captain from 1885 to 1891 and as Commissioner for an assignment that took him to Europe in 1889. On February 16, 1891 he was appointed as Acting Superintendent for Yellowstone National Park, the first West Point graduate to hold the position. He departed on June 23, 1897 for another assignment. After his promotion to Brigadier General, he was sent to the Philippines to command the Department of the Visayas. He retired in 1911 as a Brigadier-General. Afterwards he lived at the University Club in New York City, where he died while reading a newspaper in the lobby. His diary of his activities as an officer in the Southwest from July 1872 to December 1875 was published as Journal of 2nd Lieut. Geo. S. Anderson, 6th N.J. Cavalry.
Brigadier General.
There is a cenotaph for him in Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where his parents are buried.
The cemetery is located in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey.
He was the son of John Hill Anderson and Susan Ogden Lewis Anderson.
He never married.
Anderson graduated fifth in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1871. He was assigned to the 6th Cavalry as a 2nd Lieut. He served as Acting Engineer officer for the Department of the Missouri in 1875, as Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West point from 1877 to 1881, as Captain from 1885 to 1891 and as Commissioner for an assignment that took him to Europe in 1889. On February 16, 1891 he was appointed as Acting Superintendent for Yellowstone National Park, the first West Point graduate to hold the position. He departed on June 23, 1897 for another assignment. After his promotion to Brigadier General, he was sent to the Philippines to command the Department of the Visayas. He retired in 1911 as a Brigadier-General. Afterwards he lived at the University Club in New York City, where he died while reading a newspaper in the lobby. His diary of his activities as an officer in the Southwest from July 1872 to December 1875 was published as Journal of 2nd Lieut. Geo. S. Anderson, 6th N.J. Cavalry.
USMA Class of 1871. Cullum No. 2374.
Brigadier General.
There is a cenotaph for him in Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where his parents are buried.
The cemetery is located in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey.
He was the son of John Hill Anderson and Susan Ogden Lewis Anderson.
He never married.
Anderson graduated fifth in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1871. He was assigned to the 6th Cavalry as a 2nd Lieut. He served as Acting Engineer officer for the Department of the Missouri in 1875, as Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West point from 1877 to 1881, as Captain from 1885 to 1891 and as Commissioner for an assignment that took him to Europe in 1889. On February 16, 1891 he was appointed as Acting Superintendent for Yellowstone National Park, the first West Point graduate to hold the position. He departed on June 23, 1897 for another assignment. After his promotion to Brigadier General, he was sent to the Philippines to command the Department of the Visayas. He retired in 1911 as a Brigadier-General. Afterwards he lived at the University Club in New York City, where he died while reading a newspaper in the lobby. His diary of his activities as an officer in the Southwest from July 1872 to December 1875 was published as Journal of 2nd Lieut. Geo. S. Anderson, 6th N.J. Cavalry.
Brigadier General.
There is a cenotaph for him in Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where his parents are buried.
The cemetery is located in Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey.
He was the son of John Hill Anderson and Susan Ogden Lewis Anderson.
He never married.
Anderson graduated fifth in his class from the United States Military Academy in 1871. He was assigned to the 6th Cavalry as a 2nd Lieut. He served as Acting Engineer officer for the Department of the Missouri in 1875, as Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West point from 1877 to 1881, as Captain from 1885 to 1891 and as Commissioner for an assignment that took him to Europe in 1889. On February 16, 1891 he was appointed as Acting Superintendent for Yellowstone National Park, the first West Point graduate to hold the position. He departed on June 23, 1897 for another assignment. After his promotion to Brigadier General, he was sent to the Philippines to command the Department of the Visayas. He retired in 1911 as a Brigadier-General. Afterwards he lived at the University Club in New York City, where he died while reading a newspaper in the lobby. His diary of his activities as an officer in the Southwest from July 1872 to December 1875 was published as Journal of 2nd Lieut. Geo. S. Anderson, 6th N.J. Cavalry.
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