California Biographies, Kern County
C. V. ANDERSON

History of Kern County, California, with biographical sketches 
of the leading men and women of the county who have been 
identified with its growth and development from the early days 
to the present.

Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company, 1914
History by Morgan, Wallace Melvin

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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C. V. ANDERSON.— As examiner of titles for the Kern County Abstract 
Company, in which he is a large stockholder and also holds the office of 
vice-president, Mr. Anderson is intimately identified with one of the leading 
concerns of its kind in the San Joaquin valley. Descended from an old 
southern family, he was born at Memphis, Tenn., March 11, 1874, and is a 
son of James A. and Maria Anderson, the latter of whom died when C. V. 
was a very small child. After a successful career as an attorney in Memphis 
the father came to California in 1885 and opened a law office in Los Angeles, 
where he engaged in practice as a partner of the late Attorney-General Fitz- 
gerald, of California. Twice married, by the two unions he became the 
father of fifteen children, seven of whom are living. Out of this large family 
C. V. was thirteenth in order of birth. From an early age he expressed a 
decided preference for the profession of the law, in which his two brothers, W. 
H. and James A., Jr., have also been successful, forming the firm of Anderson 
& Anderson, well-known among the law firms of Los Angeles. 

After he had completed the studies of the public schools and St. Vincent's 
College, C. V. Anderson entered his father's office as a law student and during 
1897 was admitted to the bar. With other members of the family he then 
engaged in practice in Los Angeles, whence he came to Bakersfield during 
the latter part of 1900, influenced in this move by the recent oil discoveries 
in the Kern county fields. In 1901 he formed a partnership with W. W. Kaye 
under the firm title of Anderson & Kaye, which connection continued until 
1905 and meantime, from 1902 to 1905, he acted as adviser to the Kern County 
Abstract Company. Returning to Los Angeles in 1906 he became examiner 
of titles for the Title Insurance & Trust Company, also practiced his profession 
as a member of the firm of Anderson & Anderson, but in 1910 was induced to 
relinquish his associations in the southern metropolis in order to identify him- 
self with the Kern County Abstract Company, an important and well-estab- 
lished concern of Bakersfield. 

The marriage of Mr. Anderson took place in 1903 and united him with 
Miss Elizabeth Alexander, of Los Angeles, daughter of the late Col. Richard 
Henry Alexander, and Emily W. (Houston) Alexander, the latter still a 
resident of Los Angeles. During a long and brilliant career Colonel Alexander 
was retained successively as a surgeon in the army, as colonel on the staff of 
General Allies and as the head of the medical department of the west. Air. and 
Mrs. Anderson are the parents of two daughters, Emily and Betty. The re- 
ligious home of the family is in the Episcopal Church of Bakersfield, to the 
maintenance of which Mr. Anderson has contributed generously and in whose 
philanthropies he has been a willing assistant. The Masonic Order and the 
Bakersfield Club number him among their active members and their pro- 
gressive projects have received his quiet but earnest co-operation. The Re- 
publican party embodies in its platform the principles which he believes to 
be best adapted to the welfare of the nation and he has given to it his stead- 
fast allegiance.