Generation No. 3

4. MARGARET C³ ANDERSON (ROBERT², ROBERT¹) was born August 29, 1812 in Washington, Washington County, PA. She married SAMUEL C YOUNG.

Child of MARGARET ANDERSON and SAMUEL YOUNG is:

5. JAMES B³ ANDERSON (ROBERT², ROBERT¹) was born June 08, 1815 in Washington, Washington County, PA, and died June 02, 1850. He married ELIZABETH ONSLOTT.

Children of JAMES ANDERSON and ELIZABETH ONSLOTT are:

6. JULIA ANN³ ANDERSON (ROBERT², ROBERT¹) was born January 31, 1818 in Washington, Washington County, PA. She married NATHAN PORTER.

More About NATHAN PORTER: Occupation: Engineer (steamboat); Shipbuilder

Children of JULIA ANDERSON and NATHAN PORTER are:

7. WILLIAM B³ ANDERSON (ROBERT², ROBERT¹) was born October 10, 1822 in Washington County, PA, and died November 15, 1897 in Shousetown, PA. He married MARY LOUISA FISCHGENS September 15, 1853 in Cincinnati, OH, daughter of JOSEPH FISCHGENS and ANNA WOOLSLAYER.

Notes for WILLIAM B ANDERSON:

Capt. William B. Anderson, retired captain and boat-owner, postoffice Shousetown, was born in Washington County, Pa., Oct. 10, 1822, a son of Hon. Robert and Jemima (Taylor) Anderson. Hon. Robert Anderson was a native of Pennsylvania, a gold and silver-beater by trade, and while a young man established a pack-line to carry salt from Philadelphia to Washington, Pa. He purchased land adjoining the town of Washington, and later engaged in farming. He represented Allegheny County in the legislature, and died at the age of sixty-three years. He was twice married; first to a Miss Agnew, of Washington Cuonty, Pa., who bore him four children, all now deceased: Samuel A.; Robert S.; Eliza, wife of Samuel C. Cole (also deceased), and Brice Clark. After his wife's death, Mr. Anderson married Widow Swearingen, of Washington County, Pa., who had one son, Joseph C. (now deceased). By this marriage Mr. Anderson became the father of eight children: Margaret (widow of Samuel C. Young); James (deceased), who married Elizabeth Onslott; Julia, who married Nathan Porter (both deceased); Hettie Ann (who died unmarried); Capt. William B.; David S.; John C., married to Rosa Hinton; and Mary Jane, who married Rev. James Allison, publisher of the Presbyterian Banner. (They had one daughter, and afterward Mrs. Allison died; the daughter, Lizzie Taylor, still lives and is married to a Mr. Rinehart.)

William B. Anderson, at the age of eleven years, went to live with his brother Robert S. and go to school, and did attend school six months, and then went in his store, and continued clerking until April, 1843; then started a grocery himself in Pittsburgh, and continued it until the fire of 1845, and after the great fire of April 10, 1845, he was left penniless. He next took a position as clerk on the steamer Lake Erie, under Gen. Charles M. Reed, of Erie, Pa.; clerked on that boat and on the Michigan No. 2 and the Beaver, three years. Next he took a clerkship on the Clipper No. 2, one of the seven daily packets making weekly trips between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, Ohio, making 138 round trips on that boat. He then formed a partnership with Capt. Samuel C. Young and others and built various passenger and freight boats to run on low water between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati; they built some twenty passenger and freight boats, and generally sold them to run on the small rivers in the south. In 1860 Capt. Young died. At that time they were running four packets from Pittsburgh to Memphis, Tenn. In the spring of 1862 Capt. Anderson built a light-water packet, the Glide, a very fast boat, and was that fall employed by the government to carry dispatches to the several gunboats in and about Cincinnati, and towed all the barges for the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati, the time Kirby Smith was expected to attack that city. Sept. 27, 1862, Capt. Anderson was sent with his boat and crew, a cannon crew, cannon and sharpshooters, to Augusta, Ky., to defend that town. Subsequently he was again employed carrying soldiers, dispatches and government supplies for Cox's army on the Big Kanawha river, until winter, when the government bought his boat. He immediately had Glide No. 2 built at Murraysville, W. Va., and carried iron from Portsmouth to Eads' shipyard, St. Louis, Mo., a few trips; then carried government and suttlers' supplies from Cincinnati to Nashville, Tenn., until just before the fight between Hood and Thomas, when the government took charge of the boat, and soon after purchased it. Capt. Anderson then contracted at Freedom, Beaver County, Pa., and built Glide No. 3, a full-cabin passenger boat, which he ran on the Ohio until the close of the war, and afterward between Memphis and Little Rock, Ark., and from New Orleans up the Red River, where the vessel was sunk. Having wrecked her and rebuilt, for the machinery, the steamer R.C. Gray, he four years later sold her at Louisville, Ky. At one time he was in partnership with Capt. R.C. Gray, and together they built the steamer Denmark, the first packet for the Northern Line company, from St. Louis to St. Paul.

September 15, 1853, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Capt. Anderson married Louisa Fischgens, a native of Pittsburgh and a daughter of Joseph L. and Ann (Woolslayer) Fischgens. Her father was born in Cologne, Prussia, and her mother in Pittsburgh. Capt. and Mrs. Anderson have five children: William Y., married to Nancy C. McKinley and residing in Shousetown, Pa.; Anna M., married July 3, 1888, to Edward A. Hart, of Shousetown, Pa,; John L; Robert and Harry C. reside on the homestead. The homstead is where the family still reside and have resided since Aug. 1, 1855.

The length of time employed by Capt. W.B. Anderson in the boating business was twenty-five years, and during all that time there never was an accident of any kind causing loss of life happened, although he made many narrow escapes. On the last trip of the Kenton, the Memphis packet that he was on, he had presented to him a pass from Memphis to Charleston with a view of going from Charleston to New York by coast, and from there to Pittsburgh by rail and be at Pittsburgh in time to meet his boat, but through the persuasion of Capt. Crooks and other personal friends, of Memphis, he did not take that route, but continued on the boat, and that very day commenced the firing into Fort Sumter, and as they went up the river things began to appear lively, but they made the trip safely and concluded to lay up at Pittsburgh till they saw more about what was to happen, and they did see a great deal of it before it was all over.

Source: History of Allegheny County Pennsylvania, Warner & Company, 1889

More About WILLIAM B ANDERSON: Buried: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA; Cause of Death: Dropsey

More About MARY LOUISA FISCHGENS: Buried: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA; Cause of Death: Liver Cancer

Children of WILLIAM ANDERSON and MARY FISCHGENS are:

8. JOHN CLARK³ ANDERSON (ROBERT², ROBERT¹) was born January 14, 1828 in Leetsdale, PA, and died October 06, 1928. He married ROSA HINTON May 02, 1857 in Cincinnati, OH.

Notes for JOHN CLARK ANDERSON:

J. C. Anderson, farmer, Sewickley, is a son of Hon. Robert Anderson, who was born March 23, 1776, in Lancaster County, Pa., where his ancestors were counted among the pioneers, being of Scotch-Irish extraction. Early in life he went to Washington County, where he farmed, and soon became a leading spirit in every good enterprise. In 1808 he was elected sheriff of that county, and served three years. In 1811 he was elected to the house of representatives, and re-elected the following year. He took an active part in the work at home during the war of 1812. He was identified with the democratic party, and was its recognized leader in his county. In 1825 he came to Leet Township, Allegheny County, and was justice of the peace here for many years, residing on the old Leet farm. He afterward bought the farm where our subject now resides, and on which he met his death by accident, November 11, 1836, while doing an act of charity, hauling a load of wood to a poor widow, and on going down hill the ox-cart upset with him and broke his neck. Hon. Robert Anderson was twice married. His first wife, nee Elizabeth Agnew, died, leaving four children: Samuel, Robert, Eliza and Bryce C. His second wife, nee Jemima Taylor, was born February 4, 1787; she died September 4, 1864. Eight children blessed this union: Margaret, James, Julia, Hattie, William, David, John and Mary. Of these, David has lived on the homestead since 1851.

Our subject was born in 1828 in Leetsdale. He farmed till 1849, when he joined Capt. Ancrum's Pittsburgh and California Enterprise company, numbering over three hundred persons. They crossed the plains, and he mined for gold a short time in California, where he afterward owned a large stock-ranch. In 1851 he returned to this county, where he followed the river for twenty years. Since 1865 he has made his home on his homestead. He was married in Cincinnati to Miss Rose Hinton, a native of Pittsburgh, and eight children have been born to them: Elizabeth (wife of Rev. F. Peters), Robert, John, Mrs. Julia Fleming, Mrs. Hattie Varro, David, William and Samuel Anderson.

Source: History of Allegheny County Pennsylvania, Warner & Company, 1889

John Clark Anderson, son of Robert and Jemima (Taylor) Anderson, was bor nat Leetsdale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, January 14, 1828. He was reared and educated in the place of his birth, and in the year of his majority became associated with the Pittsburgh and California Company, and went to California, driving twenty-one hundred miles from the western borders of civilizatiob across the plains of the middle west and the mountains rising from the Pacific coastal plain. He remained in California from August, 1849, until April, 1852, then returned to Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where he enterred the ranks of rivermen and became a pilot, continuing in this service for a quarter of a century. During this time, besides holding a pilot's license, he was an authorized captain and held an interrest in several boats plying the sttreams of the Mississippi system. While the war of the rebellion was in continuance, he sold all of his boats to the United States government, and for the entire four years was in the government service, his perfect knowledge of every branch or the rivers making him an ally of exceedingly great value. Retiring at the close of the war from all connection with river navigation, he made his home on the Anderson farm, where he remained for thirty-five years. In this time, however, he found the lure of the river and the attraction of habits taking twenty-five years in the formation bonds too strong to be snapped in an instant of decision and a considerable share of that time was spent on the water. Since May 2, 1902, Mr. Andersonhas lived retired, having disposed of the homestead farm of 130 avres, originally 261 acres, land now owned by Oliver Ayers and R.R. Quay, a part of which is occupied by the Sewickley Young Men's Christian Association Building. Mr. Anderson, one of the oldest citizens of Sewickley, attends the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife at the time of her death was the oldest member. The Democratic party has ever enlisted his sympathy, and for twenty years he was a member of the school board of Leet Township and road commissioner for six years. It has been one of the cardinal principles of Mr. Anderson's plan of life to live within his means, and at the present time he is entirely independent of material cares, despite the inroads made by a generous and open-handed nature. He is widely known in Sewickley and vicinity and as universally liked, for the advances of age have added to rather than diminished the attractiveness of a congenial personality, and in the following generation, as well as among those of his who survive, he has many firm friends.

Mr. Anderson married, May 2, 1857, Rosa, daughter of Thomas A. Hinton, a merchant of Pittsburgh, in which city his daughter was born. She died in July, 1911, aged seventy-three years. Children of John Clark and Rosa (Hinton) Anderson: 1. Elizabeth, married Rev. F.R. Peters,a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has children: Edith, Julia, Thayer, Marjorie, Sarah Rosa. 2. Robert L., of whom further. 3. John D., married Jane Holmes, a native of Texas, and lived first in Mexico, later in San Antonio, Texas, his present residence; children: Holmes, Maud, Rosa, Francis. 4. Julia, married Cochran Fleming, and lives at Robies, near Richmond, Virginia; children: Anderson, Cochran, Julia, Ada, Robert, Bess, Margaret, Thomas, John, Frank. 5. Hettie, married Victor G. Varro, and resides in Washington, Pennsylvania; children: Victor and Rose. 6. David Clark, married Nellie Carter, and lives in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania; children: Rose, Robert, David, Jemima, De Witt. 7. William Sherman, accidentally drowned when eighteen years of age. 8. Samuel Young, of whom further.

Source: Genealogical & Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, by John W. Jordan, 1915

More About JOHN CLARK ANDERSON: Buried: Sewickley Cemetery, Sewickley, PA

Children of JOHN ANDERSON and ROSA HINTON are:

9. MARY JANE³ ANDERSON (ROBERT², ROBERT¹) was born May 02, 1832 in Leetsdale, Pa, and died Bef. November 06, 1856. She married JAMES A ALLISON August 20, 1851.

Notes for JAMES A ALLISON:

James Allison, D.D., Pittsburgh, is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., born September 27, 1823. James Allison, Sr., his father, was born in 1792 in the Cumberland Valley, and was of old Scotch Presbyterian stock. He came to Pittsburgh in 1811, and was married there to Elizabeth, daughter of George and Lydia Brickell. The Brickell family settled in Pittsburgh in 1760, and owned and farmed a large amount of property in Birmingham. James Allison was a tanner, and later in life a farmer in Deer (now Richland) Township, Allegheny County, Pa., where he died aged seventy-five years. Politically he was identified with the whig and afterward with the republican party. Dr. Allison graduated at Jefferson College, class of 1845, and at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, in 1848, after which he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Sewickley for sixteen years, and for several years was connected with the late Rev. Dr. McKinney as editor of the Presbyterian Banner. Dr. Allison, in 1864, along with Robert Patterson, bought the Presbyterian Banner, which they have published and edited ever since, and its circulation has been quadrupled under their management. Dr. Allison is a director of the Western Theological Seminary; trustee of Washington and Jefferson College; one of the managers of the Pennsylvania Reform School at Morganza, which position he has filled fourteen years. He has been a member of the Presbyterian General Assembly seven times; from 1865 to the present time he has been a member of the Presbyterian Board of Missions for Freedmen; has been a member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce for several years, and has always taken an active part in public movements in church and state. He has been twice married; first, Aug. 20, 1851, to Miss Mary Anderson, of Sewickley, Pa., and second, November 6, 1856, to Miss Caroline Snowden, of Pittsburgh. His only son, John M.S. Allison, seven years connected with him in the Banner, a young man of great ability and high promise, died of typhoid fever Dec. 27, 187. His only daughter now resides in Boston, the wife of S.W. Reinhart, general auditor of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad.

Source: History of Allegheny County Pennsylvania, Warner & Company, 1889

More about JAMES A ALLISON: Occupation: Doctor; Misc.: 1845, Graduated Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA; 1848, Graduated Western Theological Seminary

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