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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

Meriwether Lewis Anderson, M, D. Dr. Anderson, through both paternal and mater- nal lines, is connected with distinguished men, famed in the civil and military history of Virginia from the earliest colonial days to the present. The emigrant ancestors. Scotch. English, Welsh and Irish, date from 1620. when Nicholas Martian came from England, and 1635. when Robert Lewis came from \\'ales ; in 1753, when John Scott from the north of Ireland had land patented to him in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Other ancestors came to \'irginia : George Reade from England in 1637; Augustine ( i ) Warner, from England, date unknown ; Nicholas Meriwether, from Wales, date unknown ; Raleigh Travers, in •'^'53 • ^^'illiam Thornton, of Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1660; Robert Talliaferro fcom Eng- land ; David Anderson, of Scotch ancestry ; John Harper, of Philadelphia and Alexan- dria ; Gerard Fowke, of Gunston Hall, Staf- fordshire. England, to Stafford county. Vir- ginia. 1669: Dr. Gustavus Brown, of Scot- land and Maryland ; Captain William Daniel a royalist officer, settled in Middlesex county, \'irginia; Zachary Lewis, of Wales, in 1694; Rev. John Moncure, of Scotland, settled in Stafford county, Virginia, in 1733 ; Colonel Joseph Ball, of London ; John Wal- ler, of England, and Lieutenant William Lewis of the revolutionary army. All these are found fully recorded in Hayden's "\^ir- ginia Genealogies," the "Lewises and Kin- dred Families," Watson's "A Royal Line- age," "Some Notable Families of America," and Pitman's "Americans of Gentle Birth."

From David Anderson, the Scotchman, sprang Edmund Anderson, a farmer and merchant of Hanover and Albemarle coun- ties, Virginia. His wife, Jane Meriwether (Lewis) Anderson, was a devoted Chris- tian, of wide influence, greatly beloved. She was a daughter of Lieutenant William Lewis, Continental line, and only full sister of Meriwether Lewis, the explorer of Co- lumbia and Missouri rivers.

Their son. Dr. Meriwether Lewis Ander- son, born in X'irginia. June 23, 1806, was a well beloved country doctor, with a large practice in Albemarle county, having a beau- tiful country home. "Locust Hill." where his son, Charles Harper Anderson, father of Dr. Meriwether Lewis (2) Anderson, of Richmond, was born. He was a Methodist. His familv had left the established church

and become Methodist, and Dr. Anderson, rather late in life, joined that church. He gave efficient service in large military hos- pitals at Charlottesville and the University of Mrginia during the Confederate war. He was elected to the Virginia legislature, but served c:)nly a few months, dying March 6. 1863. in the midst of the session. He mar- ried Lucy S. Harper. He left issvie : Meri- wether Lewis, unmarried, killed in the battle at Brook Run, near Fisher's Hill, October 8. 1864; Charles Harper; Mary Miller, who married B. R. A. Scott.

Charles Harper Anderson, son of Dr. Meriwether Lewis and Lucy S. (Harper) Anderson, was born at "Locust Hill." Albe- marle county. Virginia, June 28, 1848. He was a farmer and merchant of the county, and is noted for gentleness and firmness of character, combined with quixotic honesty. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and a Democrat. He was married at "Bel- air." Spottsylvania county. Virginia, Febru- ary 15. 1872. by Rev. James P. Smith, of "Stonewall" Jackson's staff, to Sarah Travers Lewis Scott, born at "Bel-air." March 31. 1847. She is the daughter of James AlcClure and Sarah Travers (Lewis) Scott, and a descendant of John Scott, Wil- liam McClure, Robert Lewis, Augustine Warner, speaker of the Virginia house of burgesses ; Zachary Lewis, John Waller. Captain William Daniel. Joseph Ball, Ra- leigh Travers, Rev. John Moncure, Peter and Travers Daniel, signers of the protest against the Stamp Act, and other men of note. Children of Charles Harper Ander- son : Meriwether Lewis (2), of whom further ; Sarah Travers Lewis Scott, born February I. 1874. married George Gordon; Charles Harper (2), born December 3. 1875; Alfred Scott, born February 14. 1878; Jane Lewis, born and died in 1882; a son. born and died February 18, 1883 ; Lucy Butler, born Au- gust 15, 1885, married B. Ernest Ward; Alden Scott, born February 24, 1888.

Dr. Meriwether Lewis (2) Anderson, of Richmond. Virginia, eldest child of Charles Harper and Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott) Anderson, was born at the family home. "Locust Hill," near the old Ivy Station. Albemarle county. Virginia. November 13. 1872. After home tuition until he was thir- teen years of age, he began attending Fish- burne Military School. He remained at home until he was seventeen years of age.