Representative Absalom Anderson View All Years
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Absalom Anderson
Lee County
Farmer, was born September 12, 1809, in Anne Arundel Co., Md. His parents immigrated to Belmont County Ohio, in 1811 and from there to Coshocton County in 1819. He engaged in the mercantile business at Nashport, Muskingum County a short time previous to the crash of 1837, which broke him up. He then came West to retrieve his lost fortunes. In the fall of 1841 he came to Lee county, Iowa, and located in Harrison Township. Mr. Anderson was elected one of the first Justices of the Peace in his township. He was also elected Representative of his county in 1864, to fill a vacancy, and in 1868, elected as a member of the Board of Supervisors, and, in 1874, was again elected as Representative. He married Flora Cisna November 13, 1834 in Ohio.
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