California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


W. E. Anderson

W. E. Anderson - Was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, July 2, 1845. When he was ten years of age, 
his parents came to California. They came by water, and arrived at San Francisco November 29, 1855. 
After about one month they located in Napa Valley, where the father died in the fall of 1861. In 1869 
the subject of this sketch returned East, where he remained until February, 1881, when he returned to 
California, and located at St. Helena. Here he is engaged in merchandising. He was married December 
31, 1872, to Miss B. Y. Patterson, by whom he has two children, William T. and Guy P.