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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. tenant-colonel in the ninth United States infantry; and in 1886 became colonel in the fourteenth United states infantry. In 1898 he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He commanded the first expedition to the Philippines; commanded the land forces which took Manila; was made major-general of volunteers Aug. 13, 1898; brigadier general United States army March 30, 1899 and retired Jan. 21, 1900. He later became commandant of the soldiers' home in Ohio. He has been vice-president of the sons of the American revolution; past commander of the loyal legion; besides holding various other positions of honor. He is the author of Conspiracies Preceding the Rebellion; What Are American Principles; and a number of

monographs on .military, masonic, patriotic and genealogical subjects. Anderson, Walker, lawyer, jurist, wag born July 18, 1801, in Petersburg, Va. In 1835 he began the practice of law in Pensacola, Fla. and was a member of the convention that framed the first constitution of the state of Florida. In 1851-53 he was chief justice of the state supreme court of Florida. Jan. 9, 1857, in Pensacola, Fla.

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Anderson, Warren Edward, physician, author, was born Feb. 16, 1857, in Mariana, Fla. In 1893-95 he was vice-president of the board of commissioners of Pensacola, Fla.; and stands at the head of his profession in

He is the author of a number of on Federal Control of Public Health. Anderson, William, soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1759 in Chester county. Pa. He served throughout the revolutionary war, taking a prominent part in the siege of Yorktown. In 1809-1819 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth congresses. He was afterward a judge of Delaware county court; and a custhat city. articles

officer at Chester, Pa. He died Deo. 14, 1829, in Chester county. Pa.

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Anderson, William, clergyman, was born April 29, 1864, in England. He was a local preacher in the Wesleyan methodist church in England; and subsequently attended the Drew theological seminary of Madison, N.J. He is now one of the foremost clergymen of the south in the methodist episcopal church; and fills a pastorate in Wheeling, W.Va.

Anderson, William B., soldier, farmer, congressman, was born April 2, 1830, in Mount Vernon, 111. He was elected surveyor of Jefferson county in 1851; and was a member of the state house of representatives of Illinois in 1856-60. He entered the union army in 1861 as a private; was successively elected captain, lieutenant-colonel and colonel; and was brevetted brigadier-general. He was a presidential elector in 1868; was elected a. member of the constitutional convention of Illinois in 1869; and was elected to the state senate of Illinois in 1871 to fill a vacancy. In 1875-77 he was a representative

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from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress as an independent reformer. He died Aug. 28, 1901, in Edgewater,

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Anderson, William A., lawyer, statesman, was born about 1835 in Botecourt county, Va. He served in the confederate army during the civil war; and

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abled for life. He served four years in the Virginia house of delegates; and for four years was a member of the Virginia state senate. In 1900 he was president of the Virginia state bar association. In 1901 and 1903 he was a member of the Virginia state constitutional convention. Since 1901 he has been attorney-general for the state of Virginia.

Anderson, William Belleville, manufacturwas born Jan. 30, 1856, in Centerville, Ohio. Since 1877 he has been secretary of the Buckeye iron and brass works, which employs three hundred skilled workmen. He was the first president of the Dayton fan and motor company. He has been a member of the board of police commissioners; and holds a leading rank in free masonry and other fraternal orders. For several years he was connected with the Ohio state militia. Anderson, William C, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1826, in Lancaster, er,

Ky. He served in the Kentucky state legislature in 1851 and 1853; and was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1859-61 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirtysixth congress. He died Dec. 23, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky. Anderson, William Christine, pharmacist, scientist, was born Feb. 8, 1865, in Keyport, N.J. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a successful pharmacist of Brooklyn, N.y. and professor of pharmacy in the Brooklyn college of pharmacy. He has been dean of the Brooklyn college of pharmacy; president of the national association of retail druggists; and president of the New York state pharmaceutical association.

Anderson, William Colman, lawyer, congressman, was bom July 11, 1853 near Greeneville, Tenn. He was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1880; and was appointed a principal examiner of contested land claims in the general land office in 1889. In 1895-97 he was a representative to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. He died Sept. 8, 1902, in Newport, Tenn. Anderson, William Franklin, clergyman, author, was born April 32, 1860, in Morgantown, Va., now W.Va. In 1884 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from the Ohio Wesleyan university; in 1887 graduated with the degree of B.D. from Drew theological