Samuel P. Anderson and Harriet Eliza Riddle

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Husband Samuel P. Anderson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 14 Oct 1860 - Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1928
         Buried:  - Calvert-Riddle Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 5

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         Father: James Anderson (1825-1905) 1 4 6
         Mother: Uretta C. Phipps (1831-1891) 1 4 6 7

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       Marriage: 28 Feb 1912 - ? Venango Co, PA 8

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Wife Harriet Eliza Riddle ⁹

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           Born: 1884
     Christened: 
           Died: 1970
         Buried:  - Calvert-Riddle Cemetery, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 5

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         Father: Charles Milton Riddle (1846-1916) 10 11 12
         Mother: Emma Florence Cross (1850-1894) 10 11 13

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel P. Anderson

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He received his education in the public schools, the Scrubgrass and Clintonville academies (both of which required him to walk three miles morning and evening, with the addition of the usual farm chores for exercise), and the Edinboro State Normal School. He was a successful school teacher for five years, and in 1883 entered the law office of Hancock and Glenn, of Franklin, as a law student. Being admitted to the bar in 1885, he practiced law in the courts of Venango County for two years, when his health began to fail and he was told by his physician that he had consumption and had only about one year to live. He relates his last conversation with his physician, who was learned in medicine and in the use of plain language: "You have less than a year. You are six feet high, weigh 143 pounds, have one lung and some will power, which are not sufficient assets to carry you through. Get ready to die." The reply was, "Doctor, you are crazy. That will power is worth more than your advice." Mr. Anderson kept the condition of his health a secret, but immediately closed his office and went to Pittsburgh, where he became an expert real estate salesman, his duties as such keeping him out of doors. After two years he went to New York and entered the employ of a large firm of electrical engineers, learned overhead construction work, and was sent to Europe, where he remained several years, being located in Scotland, England, and Portugal, erecting electric trolley lines. In 1903 he returned to Venango County, weighing 213 pounds and a picture of health. He located in Clintonville, was elected justice of the peace, receiving sixty-four out of a total of sixty-five votes, and became a leader of men. He soon acquired a county and State-wide reputation as a Bible class leader. He led in the organization of more than two hundred adult Bible classes, forty-seven of which were located in Clinton and Irwin Townships, known as the Eighth District, and which were the means of more than one thousand conversions. Rev. William Mitchell, now pastor of Plymouth Church in Buffalo, while lecturing in Franklin in 1914 said. "Sam Anderson, by his will power and leadership, has brought more men into the church than all the preachers in the county." Mr. Anderson is now president of the Venango County Sabbath School Association and on important State committees. In October, 1917, he was appointed by Governor Brumbaugh as manager of the branch office of the State Workmen's Insurance Fund, located at Franklin.
He is an enthusiastic booster for a bigger and better Franklin, a member of the Rocky Grove Club and the Franklin Board of Trade. Mr. Anderson is intensely American, and has spent much of his time during the past year in the various phases of war work. He was a successful four-minute speaker and was instrumental in bringing the Sunday schools and churches into very active participation in war work. He has always been a stanch Republican and has a large following and thousands of friends. [CAB, 684]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 644.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 974.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 683, 911.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 684.

5 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 14.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 973, 981.

7 Ruby Jane (Bailey) McCord, Genealogy of the Phipps Family (Self-published), Pg 13.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 685.

9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 685, 912.

10 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 574.

11 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 995.

12 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518, 604, 911.

13 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 518, 604, 912.