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Anderson, Josephus, clergyman, joumaliat, author, was born Oct. 7, 1829, in Hanover county, Va. He is one of the foremost clergymen of the methodist episcopal church south and has held the highest offices in the gift of that denomination. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church in the Florida conference in various cities and in Leesburg, Fla. For/ the past fifteen years he has been editor of the Florida Christian Advocate of Leesburg, Fla. He is the author of Religious Principle, published in a valuable work entitled The Methodist Pulpit South. Anderson, Josiah M., congressman, was born in Tensessee. In 1849-51 he was a representative from Tennessee to the thirtyfirst congrss. He was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. Anderson, Karl, illustrator, painter, artist, was born Jan. 13, 1874, in Oxford, Ohio. He

an illustrator for Scribner's Magazine, ColWeekly, Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals and has illustrated numeris

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ous books. Anderson, Larz, diplomat, was born Aug. 15, 1856, in Paris, France. In 1888 he graduated from Harvard university. In 1891 he was appointed to the United States diplomatic service. In 1893 he became first secretary to the United States embassy at Rome. Anderson, Lucien, lawyer, congressman, was born in June, 1834, is Mayfield, Ky. He adopted the profession of law; was a presidential elector in 1852; and served for two terms as a member of the Kentucky state legislature. In 1863-65 he was a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-eighth congress. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1864; and was a, delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866.

Anderson, Marion T., soldier, was born Nov. 13, 1839, in Clarksburg, Ind. He served as a union soldier during the civil war; and he joined company C, seventh Indiana volunteer infantry. He

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regiment captured the first rebel flag.

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tenant. In 1863 he received his commission as captain, and as such was severely wounded on Dec. 31 of that year. He also acted as major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel; and

his regiment much of the time for the last eighteen months of his service. For seven months he was an inmate of Libby prison; was one of the seventy-five officers who drew lots for their lives to afford two victims to be hanged the follov^ing morning in retaliation for some executions of rebel spies made by General Bumside in Kentucky; and on Dec. 11 made his successful escape from that prison.

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Anderson, Martin Augustus, naval

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was born about 1850 in Wisconsin. Is 1883 he became assistant engineer; in 1899 was given the rank of lieutenant. Anderson, Martin Brewer, educator, college president, was born Feb. 12, 1815, in Brunswick, Maine. In 1850 he became proprietor and editor of the New York Recorder, a weekly baptist journal. In 1853-90 he was president of the university of Rochester. He died Feb. 26, 1890, in Lake Helen, Fla. Anderson, Mary, actress, was born July 28, 1859, in Sacramento, Cal. She appeared as Juliet at Macauley's theater in Louisville in 1875; and subsequently in other parts in various parts of the country. She became a favorite actress in the principal cities of the United States, playing Lady Macbeth, Parthenia in Ingomar, and other characters. In 1890 she married Mr. Navarro of New York City, and retired from the stage. Anderson, Melville Best, educator, translator, critic, was born March 28, 1851, in Kalamazoo, Mich. He is a professor of English literature in Stanford university of California. He is the translator of Victor Hugo's William Shakespeare, and of several other works, including Paul and Virginia. Anderson, Nicholas Longworth, soldier, was born in Ohio. In 1861 ne was first lieutenant in the sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; and was made colonel in 1862. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteeers for gallant conduct and meritorious services in the battle of Stone river in 1862; and major-general of volunteers for distinguished gallantry and meritorious conduct at the battle of Chickamauga in 1863. He died Sept. IS, 1892, in Ohio. Anderson, Norton Brock, lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 8. 1843, in Todd county, Ky. He received his education at the Paducah college, Ky.; at the Bethel college of Russellville, Ky. and at Harvard university. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Platte City, Mo.; and in 1870 was elected prosecuting attorney of his county. In 1889-93 he served as a member of the Missouri state senate. He was one of the revisers of the Missouri general statutes; and has contributed extensively to law literature. Anderson, Ophelia Brown, actress, was born July 24, 1813, in Boston, Mass. She became a favorite with the American public; and was the chief attraction in the Treraont and National theaters of Boston, of which successively her father was the manager. She died Jan. 27, 1852, in Jamaica Plain,

Mass.