Brief Life History of John E.
When John E. Anderson was born on 1 March 1846, in Parkwood, Armstrong Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Logan Anderson, was 29 and his mother, Eliza Caldwell, was 26. He married Mary Jane Wiggins on 13 May 1873, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Armstrong Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Young Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 11 October 1922, in South Bend Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Parkwood, Armstrong Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Anderson in household of John Anderson, "United States Census, 1860"
- John E. Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
- John E. Anderson in entry for James Alexander Anderson and Jennie May Bracken, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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