Biography researched and written by Evey Blalock. Please do not use elsewhere without providing proper credit. Thank you.
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William L. Anderson was born in 1864 in a house at the southeast corner of the present South Park. He was the third son of Charles M. Anderson and wife Christina Wilhelmina Dragg, who sailed from Stockholm, Sweden, to America in 1854. They settled first in Iowa, removing to Lawrence, Kansas, before 1860. William was one of five sons and one daughter (Emmeline Cecilia, who died at 9 months of age in 1873).
On 21 August 1863, when William's mother was pregnant with him, the Anderson home was burned to the ground and his father and oldest brother were threatened with death during Quantrill's raid on Lawrence. This event had a dramatic effect on his family and the community. After the massacre, his father walked to Franklin, five miles away, bought a house, and moved it back to Lawrence with two yoke of oxen. The elder Anderson was a stonemason, bricklayer and plasterer who was instrumental in the rebuilding of Lawrence.
William was a bookkeeper. He was married in 1893 to Anna Daily, and their daughter Myrtle Margaret was born in 1895. William and Anna were divorced between 1900 and 1904, at which time he moved to a boarding house in Lawrence. There, he met his second wife, Katie Henrietta Tuttle Whedon, who was recently widowed. Sadly, no children from this union survived to adulthood.
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William L. Anderson was born in 1864 in a house at the southeast corner of the present South Park. He was the third son of Charles M. Anderson and wife Christina Wilhelmina Dragg, who sailed from Stockholm, Sweden, to America in 1854. They settled first in Iowa, removing to Lawrence, Kansas, before 1860. William was one of five sons and one daughter (Emmeline Cecilia, who died at 9 months of age in 1873).
On 21 August 1863, when William's mother was pregnant with him, the Anderson home was burned to the ground and his father and oldest brother were threatened with death during Quantrill's raid on Lawrence. This event had a dramatic effect on his family and the community. After the massacre, his father walked to Franklin, five miles away, bought a house, and moved it back to Lawrence with two yoke of oxen. The elder Anderson was a stonemason, bricklayer and plasterer who was instrumental in the rebuilding of Lawrence.
William was a bookkeeper. He was married in 1893 to Anna Daily, and their daughter Myrtle Margaret was born in 1895. William and Anna were divorced between 1900 and 1904, at which time he moved to a boarding house in Lawrence. There, he met his second wife, Katie Henrietta Tuttle Whedon, who was recently widowed. Sadly, no children from this union survived to adulthood.
Biography researched and written by Evey Blalock. Please do not use elsewhere without providing proper credit. Thank you.
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William L. Anderson was born in 1864 in a house at the southeast corner of the present South Park. He was the third son of Charles M. Anderson and wife Christina Wilhelmina Dragg, who sailed from Stockholm, Sweden, to America in 1854. They settled first in Iowa, removing to Lawrence, Kansas, before 1860. William was one of five sons and one daughter (Emmeline Cecilia, who died at 9 months of age in 1873).
On 21 August 1863, when William's mother was pregnant with him, the Anderson home was burned to the ground and his father and oldest brother were threatened with death during Quantrill's raid on Lawrence. This event had a dramatic effect on his family and the community. After the massacre, his father walked to Franklin, five miles away, bought a house, and moved it back to Lawrence with two yoke of oxen. The elder Anderson was a stonemason, bricklayer and plasterer who was instrumental in the rebuilding of Lawrence.
William was a bookkeeper. He was married in 1893 to Anna Daily, and their daughter Myrtle Margaret was born in 1895. William and Anna were divorced between 1900 and 1904, at which time he moved to a boarding house in Lawrence. There, he met his second wife, Katie Henrietta Tuttle Whedon, who was recently widowed. Sadly, no children from this union survived to adulthood.
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William L. Anderson was born in 1864 in a house at the southeast corner of the present South Park. He was the third son of Charles M. Anderson and wife Christina Wilhelmina Dragg, who sailed from Stockholm, Sweden, to America in 1854. They settled first in Iowa, removing to Lawrence, Kansas, before 1860. William was one of five sons and one daughter (Emmeline Cecilia, who died at 9 months of age in 1873).
On 21 August 1863, when William's mother was pregnant with him, the Anderson home was burned to the ground and his father and oldest brother were threatened with death during Quantrill's raid on Lawrence. This event had a dramatic effect on his family and the community. After the massacre, his father walked to Franklin, five miles away, bought a house, and moved it back to Lawrence with two yoke of oxen. The elder Anderson was a stonemason, bricklayer and plasterer who was instrumental in the rebuilding of Lawrence.
William was a bookkeeper. He was married in 1893 to Anna Daily, and their daughter Myrtle Margaret was born in 1895. William and Anna were divorced between 1900 and 1904, at which time he moved to a boarding house in Lawrence. There, he met his second wife, Katie Henrietta Tuttle Whedon, who was recently widowed. Sadly, no children from this union survived to adulthood.
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