Anderson, James



BORN IN: Denmark
DIED: 2/21/1889
AGED: 41
DEATH LOCATION: San Francisco

OCCUPATION: Captain

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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)

OBITUARY ---------------

Captain James Anderson

Times and Gazette

February 23, 1889

James Anderson, formerly well known here as Captain of the busy schooners and wood dealer, died in San Francisco Thursday evening of dropsy. Mr. Anderson was one of the pioneers in boating on Redwood Creek and was at one time owner of several vessels. Later he went into business in wood and coal, but not succeeding, sold out and moved to San Francisco where he has since been living.

Deceased was a member of the Metamora Tribe of Redmen and Redwood City lodge No. 25, ACUW. Captain James Anderson was buried in the Redman plot in Union Cemetery.

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