Andrew O. Anderson, though still comparatively a young man, has demonstrated what one can accomplish by a determined and persevering effort in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties and obstacles. His father, Mr. Ole Anderson, a tinsmith to trade, left Norway, his native land, when he was nineteen years of age, and came to Columbia county, Wisconsin, where he married Miss Bertha Oleson, and engaged in farming there, making a home and rearing his family. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson reside on the farm in Baron county, near the town of Rice Lake, moving there from Columbia county in 1879. Here Andrew O. was born on May 11. 1871. When he was ten years old, while at school at Rice Lake, he received an injury by being struck in time eye with a piece of tin, which finally resulted in the loss of his sight. At the age of sixteen he entered the school for the blind at Janesville, Wis., and there spent eight years, completing the high school course of study. During the years 1894-5 he gave his attention especially to massage work, and was graduated in that branch of study and practice in 1897, practicing during that year at the Winnebago hospital for the Insane. In June of the same year he opened an office for the practice of his profession in Oshkosh, and in the face of trying circumstances has persevered with most gratifying results, building up a lucrative practice and establishing a constantly growing reputation as a successful and conscientious masseur. Mr. Anderson is a man of pleasing personality, generous, sociable, genial, of courteous manner, hopeful and with high ideals, and by his clean, upright, manly life holds the confidence and esteem of all who know him. He is an active member of the First Congregational Church of Oshkosh.