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John Anderson
John Anderson (22.3.1836 i Voss- 24.2.1910 i Chicago, Cook County, Illinois,) var sønn av
Andrew Anderson (død 1849 i USA) og Laura Sampson Anderson (22.9.1812 i Voss kommune, Hordaland fylke- 8.9.1897 i Chicago, Cook County, Illinois).
Søster; Betsey Louisa Anderson Dahl (21.11.1847 i Chicago- 4.7.1935 i Evanston, Cook County, Illinois) USA
John Anderson emigrerte til Amerika i 1846 sammen med familien.
Gift 1. oktober 1859 med Maria C. Franck (1841-1874). Barn; Franklin Seward Anderson (18.8.1860- 16.6.1937 i Sunbright, Morgan, Tennessee).
Gift 2 med Julia Sampson (20.9.1851 - 28.11.1917), datter av Peter Sampson og Sarah Nordheim. Barn: Oscar Lewis Maniere Anderson (13.8.1882-1.8.1955), John Arthur Anderson (1890-1940.
Da hans far døde av kolera i 1849 ble han avisselger, og ble senere ansatt i et trykkeri. I 1866 grunnla han avisa Skandinaven i Chicago sammen med Knud Langeland. Han grunnla også John Anderson Publishing Company som holdt til i 511 North Peoria Street i Chicago.
John Anderson mottok St. Olavs Orden i 1901.
Norwegian-American printer based in Chicago, Illinois. He co-founded the Norwegian language newspaper, Skandinaven, in May 1866. During the 1870s, Skandinaven began publishing work by Norwegian-American writers such as Rasmus B. Anderson and Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.
In 1901, King Oscar II awarded the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav to Anderson for his work on Skandinaven, which had become one of the most influential and successful newspapers in the Scandinavian immigrant community. After Anderson's death in 1910, Skandinaven finally suspended publication in October 1941.
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The Chicago Tribune om hans sønn John Arthur Anderson;
Funeral services for John Arthur Anderson, vice president and secretary of the Skandinaen-John Anderson Publishing company, will be held at 2:30 p.m. today in Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery. Mr. Anderson, who was 50 years old, died Tuesday at Lake Big St. Germaine, near Sayner, Wis. He was the son of the late John A. Anderson, founder of Scandinaven, oldest and largest Scandinavian newspaper published in this country. Mr. Anderson had been active in Norwegian charities and in the Chicago Norske club. Surviving are his widow, the former Georgina Scaborne, two children, Mrs. Frank Mueller Jr., and John Arthur III., and a brother,Louis M. Anderson, president of the publishing company.
Se også
Kilder
- Olaf Morgan Norlie. History of the Norwegian people in America
- Ancestry.com
- Find a grave