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636 THE CITY OF PORTLAND the land forces which took Manila August 13, 1898. On the outbreak of the Filipino insurrection his division south of the Pasig was fiercely attacked on February 5, 1899. He defeated the Filipinos in battles fought at Santana, Passay and San Pedro, Nacate, capturing all of their artillery and eight hundred prisoners and inflicting a loss of three thousand killed and wounded. The most trying ordeal through which this command had to pass and in which the Second Oregon had to bear the brunt was the attempt of the insurgents to burn Manila and to murder all the white residents. When aggressive hostilities were resumed, General Anderson's regiment, to which the Second Oregon, First California, First Washington and regiments from Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas were attached, defeated the insurgents at Guadalupe church and Pasig and Pateros. Having been made a brigadier general in the regular army. General Anderson was ordered to Chicago to take command of the Department of the Lakes. On his return in 1900 he was soon afterward made commandant of the Ohio Soldiers Home and after holding that position for three years resigned to become a citizen of Portland, Oregon.

On the 8th of February, 1869, at Richmond, Virginia, General Anderson was married to Miss Elizabeth Van Winkle, a lady of Holland Dutch descent, and to them were born two sons and four daughters : Arline, now the wife of J. W. Cairns; Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Gould; Minnie, the deceased wife of R. H. Allen; Thomas M., now captain of the Seventh United Infantry; Van W., of Portland ; and Irmingard, the wife of W. T. Patten.

General and Mrs, Anderson attend the Unitarian church. From time to time, as favorable opportunity has offered, General Anderson has made invest- ment in property and is now a landowner in Ohio, Oregon, Texas and Washing- ton, and was also a director of the Commercial Bank of Vancouver, Washington, in 1893-94. He holds membership in the Union League Club of Philadelphia, the Arlington Club of Portland and the Columbus Club of Columbus, Ohio, and upon him have been bestowed the highest Masonic honors— election to the thirty- third degree of the Scottish Rite. His political platform is found in a strict construction of the federal constitution and a tariff for revenue only. Reading between the lines one comes to a knowledge of that ability, intellectual develop- ment and qualities of leadership which have brought him to the rank of brigadier general and gained him many friends in those circles where important questions of the day are intelligently discussed.

A quarter of a century's connection with the Oregonian as a member of the reportorial staff brought Edward Lothrop Coldwell a wide acquaintance, and such warm friendships that his death, which occurred on the 15th of March, 1908, was the occasion of widespread and sincere regret. There is something in a nickname that indicates good fellowship and kindly spirit, and this was particularly true in the case of Mr. Coldwell, who to all of his legion of friends, was known as "Jerry."

He was born in Gaspereau, Nova Scotia, July i, 1839, a son of Sherman and Eliza Coldwell, who were also natives of that country, where the father followed the occupation of farming and also engaged in the grocery business. The family is of English lineage and was founded on American soil by William Cold- well, who was born in England in 1695 and in 1712 became a resident of Massachusetts. He was there married to Jane Jordon, and in 1758 removed with his family to Nova Scotia, leaving in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, one son, Ebenezer,