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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE ON JAMES ANDERSON

James Anderson, a prominent and substantial businessman, is a resident of Coldwater, where he conducts the Marble and Granite Steam Works.  .... came from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and is the son of John and Isabella (Watson) Anderson.  James was the fifth of seven children, and was born March 18, 1817.  The others are recorded as follows:  Isabella was born March 4, 1810, and became the wife of James Canse, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and died August, 1880; Ann was born Aug. 14, 1811 and is the wife of John Thomson, now living in Wilmington, Ill.; Elizabeth was born Aug. 21, 1813 and died in Brooklyn in June 1838; William was born Nov. 12, 1814; Jane was born March 3, 1819, and died in the old country at age 7; Mary was born March 4, 1820, and became the wife of William Kelso, of Gilead, Mich., and died Feb. 1876.

John Anderson, the father of our subject, was born at Buchan, Aberdeenshire, the son of Robert Anderson, and grandson of Robert Anderson, all natives of the same shire.  John Anderson was a carpenter by trade.  He emigrated to the New World in 1835, landing in New York on the 10th of May.  His father died in Gilead Township, Mich., Feb. 12, 1852.  The mother of our subject was born in the same neighborhood in Scotland as her husband, and was second in order of birth in a family of four children ... James, Isabella, Jane & Elizabeth.  She died in Gilead Township, this county, in September, 1838.

On the 11th of April 1839, James Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Mary Mulligan, who was the eldest in a family of four children - Mary, Helen, Daniel and Thomas - born to Michael & Mary Mulligan.  Her parents emigrated from Dublin, Ireland, about 1816, settling in Boston, where the wife of our subject was born in 1822.  The family removed to New York City, where she resided until her marriage.  She departed this life April 25, 1881.  Their union was blessed by the birth of four children - Mary was born Feb. 12, 1840, and married Chauncey DeClute; William was born Oct. 3, 1841; Isabella was born Nov. 15, 1843, and married Milton Bartells, while Elizabeth, who was born Jan. 12, 1850,