Civil War Veterans of Monterey County, California.

Researched and Compiled by : 
Timothy P. Reese, PCC of Salinas , CA. & Robert L. Nelson ,PCC. of Santa Cruz.CA. 
Both members of the “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. 
Department of California & Pacific. Camp Abraham Lincoln # 10.  
The Reese-Nelson CWV-MC Data Base


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ANDERSON, ANDREW   (1839-1929)   MONTEREY   El Encinal Cemetery
(Monterey Peninsula Herald July 2, 1929)
Capt. A. Anderson of New Monterey is 90 Years Old
By Muriel Black
  Captain Andrew Anderson of 624 Lighthouse avenue, new Monterey has just celebrated his 
ninetieth birthday.  The Captain is a well known figure on the Monterey peninsula having lived 
here with Mrs. Anderson for the past twenty five years.  A number of his many friends called 
on his birthday to greet the kindly man and hear him recount the growth of Monterey during 
those years and his many interesting experiences while a sailor and sea captain
  The captains eyes twinkled as he smiled and uttered the laconic formula for longevity in the 
simple words “Hard work, rough living, temperance and no worry, thats all”.
  During his life he has carried out those principles having gone to sea when a mere boy.  He was
 born in Gottenburg, Sweden, and left there at the age of fourteen to become a sailor, shortly 
after his parents death.  He has sailed the seven seas and visited nearly every country in the world.
  In December 1861 his vessel was shipwrecked off the New England coast, and the crew was finally 
rescued after being afloat forty eight hors.
  The most treasured possession of the captain is a Bible which was given to him by a New York 
Bible society on board a Swedish battle-ship.  He carried this book with him through shipwrecks 
and disasters since 1862.  Captain Anderson lives by his Bible and reads it faithfully twice a day.
  The venerable seaman refuses to worry, but only entertains dim hope of reaching the hundred 
mark as it was prophesied he would when just a mere boy.  The prophesy was made by an old 
Malay prophet, and although his other statements have come true the captain “is not so sure 
about that one.”