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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
J. R. ANDERSON, farmer, Section 4, P. O. Xenia, is a native of Virginia.
His father, Charles Anderson, moved to Missouri in 1853, then came to Kansas in 1856; located on Section 4, southwest quarter, where they took 160 acres.
The family took no part in the early troubles, but when R. Forbes and Dye robbed Scott's store, of Xenia, he was among the number that traced the parties, and afterward when the citizens surrounded Rube Forbes, one of the robbers of the party, he and his two friends, Lieut. Ford and Mr. Vansyckle went into the thicket where the desperado was concealed, and before they came out both his friends had been shot.
He had the satisfaction of seeing Forbes brought out dead soon afterward.
Mr. Anderson first enlisted in the Third Kansas, but was transferred to the Sixth. He was mustered out in 1862.
In 1863 his father died, and in July he enlisted in the Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company I, and served until 1865.
In 1863, he had homesteaded 160 acres on Sections 4 and 5, and in 1866, he married Miss Williams.
They have seven boys and two girls. His farm now consists of 200 acres.
He handles about 100 head of cattle a year and 200 hogs.
His crop of corn will average forty bushels to the acre, and he has some seventy or eighty tons of millet.
Mr. A. has held most of the township offices, and is now County Commissioner; is an A. F. & A. M., having been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1870.
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ONE FROM BOURBON CO., KS
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - MARION TOWNSHIP.
JACOB ANDERSON, farmer, Section 23, is a native of Owen County, Ind., born in 1838. He visited the State of Kansas in 1857, having an uncle, George W.
Anderson, living on Turkey Creek, Bourbon County, but in 1858 he returned to Indiana. In September, 1859, he with his father and father's family came to Kansas and located on Section 23. His cousin, Mitchell Anderson, and an old friend, William Jones (now both deceased), emigrated to Kansas with him.
When the war of the rebellion broke out he at once joined the army.
He served in the State Militia, and later in the Union army, in the Tenth Kansas Veteran Volunteer Regiment, Company C, Sixteenth Army Corps, commanded by Gen. A. J. Smith, and served until the war closed.
In 1863 he married Mrs. Lydia Fly, whom he had known since childhood, being a native of the same State and county, in fact they had attended the same school together; she had come to Kansas as early as 1855, having married Mr. Fly in 1856, and his wife passed through all the troubles of those times.
In 1856, they were leaving the State when a man named Russell attacked their party, but the men fired and drove them off.
They returned to 1857 to their claim in this county and were visited by Montgomery and his men, whom she told she would poison, so they insisted on her tasting all the dishes first.
In 1862 Mr. Fly died.
Mr. Anderson now has a farm of 200 acres, raising stock and grain, his corn in 1882, averaging forty bushels and flax seven bushels to the acre.
Mr. Anderson was married before, but had no children;
by this marriage they have seven.
Their eldest daughter Laura is a teacher.
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