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ANDERSON.ANDERSON. law in Delaware and was appointed by President Washington judge of the Territory South of the Ohio and assisted in drawing up the constitution of the new state of Tennessee. He was appointed U.S. senator on the expulsion of Senator Blount, and he took his seat, Nov. 13, 1797, completing Senator Blount's term March 3, 1799. He was a senator by election from March 4, 1799, to March 4, 1815, and president pro tempore of the senate on two occasions. He was comptroller of the treasury, the first to hold that office, 1815-'36. He died in Washington, D.C., April 17. 1837. ANDERSON, Joseph Reid, soldier, was born at Walnut Hill, Va., Feb. 6, 1813. In 1832 he was appointed military cadet at West Point, and was graduated in 1836, being promoted in the army to 2d lieutenant of 3d artillery. He served as assistant engineer in the bureau at Washington, D. C., in 1836, and in building Fort Pulaski, Ga., 1836-'37. He resigned from the U.S. army Sept. 30, 1837, and became assistant engineer of the state of Virginia. From 1838 to 1841 he was chief engineer of the valley turnpike company, and from 1841 to 1861 was superintendent and proprietor of Tredegar iron manufactory and cannon foundry at Richmond, Va. He was elected to the Virginia house of delegates in 1852, holding the office three years. In 1861 he joined the Confederate army with the rank of brigadier-general, serving through the war in the ordnance department. In 1866 the United States government confiscated the Tredegar iron works, which had furnished most of the cannon and ammunition for the army of the confederacy. The company was re-organized in 1867, and General Anderson was chosen its president. He died at the Isles of Shoals, N.H., Sept. 7, 1892. ANDERSON, Martin Brewer, educator, was born at Brunswick, Me., Feb. 12, 1815. His father was of Scotch-Irish descent and his mother of English origin, a woman of marked intellectual qualities. After being graduated from Waterville college in 1840, he studied for a year in the theological Seminary at Newton, Mass. In 1841 he became tutor of Latin, Greek, and mathematics at Waterville college, where he was later appointed professor of rhetoric and lecturer on modern history, remaining there until 1850, when he removed to New York city and assumed the editorship of the New York Recorder, a weekly Baptist Journal. He was president of the University of Rochester, 1853-'88; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy, 1853-'87, and of political economy, 1887-'90. He was president of the American Baptist home missionary society, 1864; of the missionary union, 1869-'72; trustee of Vassar college, 1864-'90; trustee of the University of Rochester, 1887-'90, and member of the New York board of charities, 1868-'81. He received the degree LL.D. from Colby, 1853, and from the University of the State of New York, 1883, and L.H.D. from Columbia, 1887. He bequeathed his property to the University of Rochester. He married Elizabeth Gilbert, of New York. See his life by Asahel C. Kendrick (1895). His writings were edited by William C. Marcy (1895). He died at Lake Helen, Fla., Feb. 26, 1890. ANDERSON, Mary Antoinette, actress, was born at Sacramento, Cal., July 28, 1859. The next year her parents removed to Louisville, Ky., and her father became a soldier in the Confederate service. He died in Mobile, Ala., in 1863, being only twenty-nine years old. His widow married, in 1867, Dr. Hamilton Griffin, a practising physician of Louisville, and Mary was sent to the Ursuline convent to be educated under the care of the Presentation nuns. She made but small progress with her studies, and spent more time on Shakespeare than with her regular lessons. When but twelve years old she witnessed a fairy play, and decided that she would like to be an actress. A year later she saw Edwin Booth in Richard III. Her step-father encouraged the girl's ambition and directed her future education. She took lessons in music, literature and dancing. In 1874 she met Charlotte Cushman, and was advised by her to continue her study for the stage and "to begin at the top." Early in 1875 she received a few preparatory lessons from Vandenhoff, and made her first public appearance at McCauley's theatre, Louisville, in the character of Juliet, Nov. 27, 1875. To obtain the use of the theatre she agreed to raise four hundred dollars, and so did by selling tickets about the city for three months previous to the performance. Despite her inexperience and extreme youth she was not made the subject of severe criticism, although her acting was crude, and, conscious of her faults, she labored assiduously to correct them. She was induced to go to St. Louis to fill an open date for Manager DeBar, who, by advertising her as a southern girl, "daughter of a Confederate soldier killed in battle," and thus appealing to public sentiment and curiosity, made the engagement a success, which induced Manager Morton to en-