When James Robert Anderson was born on 18 April 1923, in Stearns, Minnesota, United States, his father, Herman Benjamin Anderson, was 32 and his mother, Clara Rubina Olivia Nordlie, was 33. He lived in Crow River Township, Stearns, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 July 1960, in Stearns, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Belgrade, Stearns, Minnesota, United States.
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.
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