A biographical sketch from “History of the State of Kansas, Containing a Full Account of its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State...” (1883):
DANIEL ANDERSON, farmer, Section 3, Township 4, Range 18, P.O. Robinson, was born in Johnson County, Mo., March 30, 1846, and lived in his native State until his ninth year, when his parents removed in the Spring of 1855, to Kansas, locating in Washington Township, Brown County, where Mr. Anderson has resided since. During the last war he was a member of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry. He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth in December, 1864, and was discharged at the same place, in the summer of 1865. He was married in Brown County, December 29, 1871 to Miss Mary Cowley, a native of Ohio. She died in June, 1882. They had six children, three of whom are living, and who are named —Rosetta Bell, Thomas A. and Hugh. Mr. Anderson’s father, the Hon. A. B. Anderson, is an old Kansas pioneer, and was the first Probate Judge elected in Brown County. Mr. A. is the owner of the well known trotting mare, Maggie F., who has a record of 2:30. This fine animal has won in the neighborhood of fifteen races. She was sired by Newry by Lexington, her dam being ----- -----, bred in Kentucky. He has been offered, and has refused $5,000 for this valuable trotter. In addition to Maggie F. Mr. Anderson has a fine string of trotting and running colts. He is extensively engaged in breeding fine stock of this description.
DANIEL ANDERSON, farmer, Section 3, Township 4, Range 18, P.O. Robinson, was born in Johnson County, Mo., March 30, 1846, and lived in his native State until his ninth year, when his parents removed in the Spring of 1855, to Kansas, locating in Washington Township, Brown County, where Mr. Anderson has resided since. During the last war he was a member of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry. He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth in December, 1864, and was discharged at the same place, in the summer of 1865. He was married in Brown County, December 29, 1871 to Miss Mary Cowley, a native of Ohio. She died in June, 1882. They had six children, three of whom are living, and who are named —Rosetta Bell, Thomas A. and Hugh. Mr. Anderson’s father, the Hon. A. B. Anderson, is an old Kansas pioneer, and was the first Probate Judge elected in Brown County. Mr. A. is the owner of the well known trotting mare, Maggie F., who has a record of 2:30. This fine animal has won in the neighborhood of fifteen races. She was sired by Newry by Lexington, her dam being ----- -----, bred in Kentucky. He has been offered, and has refused $5,000 for this valuable trotter. In addition to Maggie F. Mr. Anderson has a fine string of trotting and running colts. He is extensively engaged in breeding fine stock of this description.
A biographical sketch from “History of the State of Kansas, Containing a Full Account of its Growth from an Uninhabited Territory to a Wealthy and Important State...” (1883):
DANIEL ANDERSON, farmer, Section 3, Township 4, Range 18, P.O. Robinson, was born in Johnson County, Mo., March 30, 1846, and lived in his native State until his ninth year, when his parents removed in the Spring of 1855, to Kansas, locating in Washington Township, Brown County, where Mr. Anderson has resided since. During the last war he was a member of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry. He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth in December, 1864, and was discharged at the same place, in the summer of 1865. He was married in Brown County, December 29, 1871 to Miss Mary Cowley, a native of Ohio. She died in June, 1882. They had six children, three of whom are living, and who are named —Rosetta Bell, Thomas A. and Hugh. Mr. Anderson’s father, the Hon. A. B. Anderson, is an old Kansas pioneer, and was the first Probate Judge elected in Brown County. Mr. A. is the owner of the well known trotting mare, Maggie F., who has a record of 2:30. This fine animal has won in the neighborhood of fifteen races. She was sired by Newry by Lexington, her dam being ----- -----, bred in Kentucky. He has been offered, and has refused $5,000 for this valuable trotter. In addition to Maggie F. Mr. Anderson has a fine string of trotting and running colts. He is extensively engaged in breeding fine stock of this description.
DANIEL ANDERSON, farmer, Section 3, Township 4, Range 18, P.O. Robinson, was born in Johnson County, Mo., March 30, 1846, and lived in his native State until his ninth year, when his parents removed in the Spring of 1855, to Kansas, locating in Washington Township, Brown County, where Mr. Anderson has resided since. During the last war he was a member of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment Kansas Cavalry. He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth in December, 1864, and was discharged at the same place, in the summer of 1865. He was married in Brown County, December 29, 1871 to Miss Mary Cowley, a native of Ohio. She died in June, 1882. They had six children, three of whom are living, and who are named —Rosetta Bell, Thomas A. and Hugh. Mr. Anderson’s father, the Hon. A. B. Anderson, is an old Kansas pioneer, and was the first Probate Judge elected in Brown County. Mr. A. is the owner of the well known trotting mare, Maggie F., who has a record of 2:30. This fine animal has won in the neighborhood of fifteen races. She was sired by Newry by Lexington, her dam being ----- -----, bred in Kentucky. He has been offered, and has refused $5,000 for this valuable trotter. In addition to Maggie F. Mr. Anderson has a fine string of trotting and running colts. He is extensively engaged in breeding fine stock of this description.
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