The gentleman whom we here select as deserving special mention in a
collection of biographical sketches of citizens of LaSalle county, is a
banker at Leland. He was born in Adams township, this county, March 17,
1855, a son of Nelson and Ann (Quam) Anderson. His parents were both natives
of Norway. He came to this country about 1845 and his wife in 1842, and were
married in DeKalb county, Illinois, in which county they continued to reside
for a short time, and then moved to Adams township, LaSalle county.
Nelson Anderson was a farmer by vocation and died in 1864, at the age of
forty-four years; and his wife is still living, now aged sixty-eight years,
and living on the old homestead in Adams township. Their six children were
Sophia B., Mattie S., Lorinda S., Andrew N., John N., and Nelsey M. All
these are now deceased excepting our subject and John N., who is a farmer on
the old homestead.
Mr. Anderson of this sketch was reared to farm
duties and educated at Leland; and he continued in agricultural pursuits in
Adams township until he was thirty-two years of age. In the autumn of 1883
he and Thomas F. Thompson formed a partnership, he buying out Mr. Thompson's
former partner. Mr. Buland, in the grain business, ever since which time the
firm name has been Thompson & Anderson, bankers and grain merchants. They
established the Leland Bank in 1896, and are doing a safe and profitable
business.
Mr. Anderson has been a resident of Leland ever since
1883. He has served as supervisor, is a Republican and a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church. In 1884 he married Anna Vold, who died in 1897,
leaving three children — Vira A., Nelson C. and Nieda J.
Extracted 19 Dec 2018 by Norma Hass from Biographical and Genealogical Record of LaSalle County, Illinois, published in 1900, volume 2, pages 589-590.
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