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Clayton Calvin “Clate” Anderson

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Clayton Calvin “Clate” Anderson

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
25 Feb 1943 (aged 82)
Atchison, Atchison County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Effingham, Atchison County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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The Atchison Daily Globe, 26 Feb 1943, Pages 1 & 5
C. C. Anderson, Market Master And Former Transfer Man Dies
C. C. (Clate) Anderson, 82, City market master and former Transfer man, died at 5 o'clock last evening at his home 723 North Ninth street. He had been in poor health the past two years and suffered a heart attack December 1. Last Friday he became bedfast.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Stanton & Stanton chapel with the Rev Loyal Northcott officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery at Effingham.
The pallbearers will be Herbert Ralph, Robert and William Schurman, Arthur Tuley and Carl Anderson.
Mr. Anderson had lived in Atchison continuously for 63 years. Until he sold his transfer business to the Grodick Transfer Co. in 1922. Mr. Anderson was a leader here in this field.
He was associated at various times in the business with Albert Becker, Guy Swallow, George Hendrickson and E. C. Willis.
Moving heavy machinery, equipment, monuments, building materials, and so on was Mr. Anderson's forte. He moved the Globe's press into the present building. He installed the big vault in the Exchange National Bank, heavy machinery into the power house, all of the machinery in the Pillsbury mill and many large boilers in various industries and buildings. A feat in which he took great pride was in transporting the huge Glick-Orr monument to Mt. Vernon cemetery. The monument was hauled on two wagons pulled by 12 teams.
When the Wels Manufacturing Co. moved to Atchison and also when it left. he handled all of its heavy machinery, an enormous job.
He was market manager seven years.
Clayton Calvin Anderson son of Charles and Fanny Anderson, was born near Richmond, Va. May 7, 1860. His father, a captain, was killed int the Point of Rocks battle, Virginia, during the Civil war. His mother brought he and his brother Jim, to Lawrence in 1865. He was reared and educated there.
In 1890 C. C. Anderson came to Atchison to work for his brother in the Anderson & Potts Transfer Co. He went into business for himself in 1901. He operated as many as 48 head of Horses and 15 trucks at one time and hauled for 96 different business houses on Commercial alone.
Mr. Anderson married Lizzie McDonald in 1897 she died the following year on October 31, 1900, he married Mrs. Mary Schurman of Effingham.
When Mr. Anderson was in his prime he was a business leader and one of the first citizens of Atchison. He could be counted on to take an acitive part in every worthwhile civic project. He was intelligent, hard working, progressive. All of his life Mrs. Anderson was thoughtful of his fellowman and his charitable and kindly acts were manifold. Everyone knew him as a friendly smiling man. He was a member of the Christian church.
Two children preced him in death. Mildren and Kenneth Anderson. Besides his wife he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Albert Hammerly, Soldier, a stepson, Aver Schurman Atchison, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
The Atchison Daily Globe, 26 Feb 1943, Pages 1 & 5
C. C. Anderson, Market Master And Former Transfer Man Dies
C. C. (Clate) Anderson, 82, City market master and former Transfer man, died at 5 o'clock last evening at his home 723 North Ninth street. He had been in poor health the past two years and suffered a heart attack December 1. Last Friday he became bedfast.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Stanton & Stanton chapel with the Rev Loyal Northcott officiating. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery at Effingham.
The pallbearers will be Herbert Ralph, Robert and William Schurman, Arthur Tuley and Carl Anderson.
Mr. Anderson had lived in Atchison continuously for 63 years. Until he sold his transfer business to the Grodick Transfer Co. in 1922. Mr. Anderson was a leader here in this field.
He was associated at various times in the business with Albert Becker, Guy Swallow, George Hendrickson and E. C. Willis.
Moving heavy machinery, equipment, monuments, building materials, and so on was Mr. Anderson's forte. He moved the Globe's press into the present building. He installed the big vault in the Exchange National Bank, heavy machinery into the power house, all of the machinery in the Pillsbury mill and many large boilers in various industries and buildings. A feat in which he took great pride was in transporting the huge Glick-Orr monument to Mt. Vernon cemetery. The monument was hauled on two wagons pulled by 12 teams.
When the Wels Manufacturing Co. moved to Atchison and also when it left. he handled all of its heavy machinery, an enormous job.
He was market manager seven years.
Clayton Calvin Anderson son of Charles and Fanny Anderson, was born near Richmond, Va. May 7, 1860. His father, a captain, was killed int the Point of Rocks battle, Virginia, during the Civil war. His mother brought he and his brother Jim, to Lawrence in 1865. He was reared and educated there.
In 1890 C. C. Anderson came to Atchison to work for his brother in the Anderson & Potts Transfer Co. He went into business for himself in 1901. He operated as many as 48 head of Horses and 15 trucks at one time and hauled for 96 different business houses on Commercial alone.
Mr. Anderson married Lizzie McDonald in 1897 she died the following year on October 31, 1900, he married Mrs. Mary Schurman of Effingham.
When Mr. Anderson was in his prime he was a business leader and one of the first citizens of Atchison. He could be counted on to take an acitive part in every worthwhile civic project. He was intelligent, hard working, progressive. All of his life Mrs. Anderson was thoughtful of his fellowman and his charitable and kindly acts were manifold. Everyone knew him as a friendly smiling man. He was a member of the Christian church.
Two children preced him in death. Mildren and Kenneth Anderson. Besides his wife he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Albert Hammerly, Soldier, a stepson, Aver Schurman Atchison, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.


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