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ANDERSON.ANDERSON. the nomination for governor and removed to Monticello, Fla., where he resided, 1857-'61. He was a delegate to the state convention of 1861, and a representative in the provisional Confederate States congress, 1861. He was colonel, brigadier-general and major-general in the Confederate army, 1861-'65; won promotion for gallant conduct at Shiloh and Stone's river; commanded the military district of Florida; was severely wounded at Jonesboro, and commanded a division in the army of the Tennessee. He died at Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 20, 1872. ANDERSON, James Wright, educator, was born near Pittsburg, Pa., April 1, 1831; son of Thomas and Esther (Wright) Anderson. He was graduated at Jefferson college, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1851, and removed to California, settling in Solano county, where he taught school. He was county superintendent of schools, 1855-'56, and president of Hesperian college, Woodland, near San Francisco, 1873-'90. He was state superintendent of public instruction 1891-'94, and was the chief promoter of the remarkable educational exhibit of the state at the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893. ANDERSON, John A., representative, was born in Washington county, Pa., June 16, 1834. He was graduated from Miami university in 1853, and in 1857 was ordained a Presbyterian minister, preaching in San Francisco. In 1862 he joined the army as chaplain of the 3d California infantry, and in the following year was appointed California agent of the United States sanitary commission, in which position he served until 1867. From 1873 to 1879 he held the presidency of the Kansas state agricultural college. In 1878 he was elected to represent his district in the 46th Congress, and was re-elected to the 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 51st congresses. In 1889 he was appointed United States consul-general at Cairo, Egypt, by President Harrison, remaining there until shortly before his death, which occurred in Liverpool, England, May 18, 1892. ANDERSON, John Jacob, educator, was born in New York city, Sept. 30, 1821. He received his primary education at the New York public schools, and at Rutgers college. In 1845 he was appointed principal of one of the large public schools of New York city, and he held this position for upwards of twenty years, meanwhile having control of the evening schools in the city, and giving numerous lectures before educational bodies. It was while thus employed that he wrote his well-known series of school histories, which were literally a growth evolved out of his own experience as a teacher. His first volume — the "Introductory School History of the United States" — was not written for publication, but was arranged on the catechetical plan, copied by one pupil after another of the class he was fitting for the Free academy, and was used in manuscript. Mr. Anderson in this, his first book, was the pioneer in associating narrative with its geography. He was the first to insert in his books sectional maps covering every part of the story, and to recommend that these should be reproduced on blackboards, slates and paper, by the pupils. For his books exhibited at the International exposition in Paris in 1875, Dr. Anderson was awarded a medal, the only award made for school histories by the exhibition. The University of the city of New York in 1876 conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. His publications include: "Pictorial School History of the United States" (1863); "Introductory School History of the United States" (1865); "Common School History of the United States"; "Grammar School History of the United States"; "A Manual of General History"; "A School History of England" (1870); "The Historical Reader" (1871); "The United States Reader" (1872); "A New Manual of General History" (1869); "A Pictorial School History"; "A School History of France"; "The Historical Reader" (1872); and "A School History of Greece." ANDERSON, Joseph, clergyman, was born in the Highlands of Scotland, Dec. 16, 1836. He removed with his parents to America in 1842, and afterwards resided in Astoria, N. Y., and in New York city. He passed from a New York public school to the College of the city of New York, and was graduated in 1854. He studied at the Union theological seminary and was ordained by the third presbytery of New York in 1858, pastor of the First Congregational church of Stamford, Conn. In 1861 he was called from Stamford to become pastor of the First church in Norwalk. In 1864 he went to Bath, Me., and in February, 1865, began his ministry with the First church in Waterbury, Conn. He was twice moderator of the general association, and once of the general conference, of the congregational church; received the degree of D.D. from Yale in 1878, and became a member of its corporation in 1884. He made a study of the American Indian, and published "The Churches of Mattatuck" (1892); "History of Waterbury, Conn.," (1893-96) and historical papers. ANDERSON, Joseph, senator, was born at White Marsh, Pa., Nov. 5, 1757. He acquired a good education and studied law. Upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he was appointed an ensign in the New Jersey line. He was promoted captain and served in the battle of Monmouth; was with Sullivan in the Iroquois expedition, and was present at Valley Forge and in the siege of Yorktown, retiring at the close of the war with the brevet of major. He practised