N. & MRS. N. ANDERSON
Nathan Anderson Residence
Marathon, Clermont Co., OH |
NATHAN
ANDERSON. The Anderson family is of English
extraction, and came to America in the seventeenth
century, and of the branch that finally settled in New
Jersey was Samuel Anderson, born in that State in
1714. He was the father of Samuel, who had
a son, Peter Anderson, born Oct. 10, 1792, in
Hunterdon Co., N. J. Peter Anderson came to
Ohio in 1814, and located in Clermont County, in Miami
township. In 1817 he was married to Miss
Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan Hatfield, of
Hamilton County, who in the war of1812 commanded a rifle
company and participated in the siege of Fort Meigs. Peter
Anderson still lives, at the advanced age of
eighty-eight years, on his farm in Stonelick township.
Nathan Anderson, son of Peter and
Elizabeth (Hatfield) Anderson, was born in Miami
township of this county, Mar. 19, 1824. He
received the usual district school education common to
the youth of his day, and at ten years of age went into
his father's store at New Boston as a clerk, and there
remained until his twenty-fifth year. In the year
1852 he went to California by the way of New Orleans and
the Isthmus of Panama. He remained in the Golden State
four years, part of that time working in the mines; but
in the session of 1854-55 of the California Legislature
he was clerk of the House of Representatives.
After his return to Ohio he located in Jackson township
where he has since resided, engaged in agricultural
pursuits. On June 16, 1862, he was married by
Rev. Joseph D. Hatfield to Permelia Eliza
Abernethy, daughter of Thomas W. and Harriet
(Hutchinson) Abernethy. Thomas W. Abernethy
was born Mar. 14, 1808, in Hampshire Co., Va., and came
to this county in 1829, and in the year 1832 (April
12th) was married by Rev. Burroughs Westlake to
Harriet Hutchinson. She was born in this
county July 16, 1816, and was the daughter of Aaron
Hutchinson, Sr., an early pioneer and emigrant from
New Jersey. Nathan Anderson joined the
Masonic order in 1848, taking the symbolical degrees in
Clermont Social Lodge, No. 29, at Williamsburgh, and in
1852 he received the capitular degrees of Mark, Past,
and Most Excellent Master and Royal Arch Mason in
Milford Chapter. He has served many years as
township treasurer, and being a Democrat in politics, is
very active in political campaigns and prominent in the
counsels of his party, to which he and his venerable
father have long been devotedly attached. His find
homestead adjoins the town of Marathon, lying on the
Milford and Chillicothe turnpike, and his farm is
situated in both Brown and Clermont Counties.
Peter Anderson served with acceptance to the public
for seven years as county commissioner, and his son,
Nathan Anderson, possesses in an eminent degree the
leading characteristics that distinguished his father.
He is an honest, prompt business man of inflexible
integrity, and his affable manners and genial ways have
made him popular and esteemed by the whole community.
Comfortably situated in their beautiful home, Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan Anderson - the latter an estimable lady,
noted for her domestic graces and hospitality - take
great interest in all public improvements and in all
movements for the benefit of society.
Source: 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, Publ.
Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts - Press of J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia - 1880 - Page (facing)
556 |
