THE SON OF SHERWOOD BERTON ANDERSON ROBERT LANE ANDERSON

THE SON OF SHERWOOD BERTON ANDERSON ROBERT LANE ANDERSON

 





Robert Lane. Anderson
Born:  August 16, 1907 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County  Ohio
Died: June 7, 1951 Marion Smyth County Virginia
Spouse: Mary Leigh Chryst
Parents: Sherwood Berton Anderson
                Cornelia Platt Lane
Occupation: Journalist
Age at Death:  YRS: 43 MOS 10 DYS: 8
Cause of Death: Sudden Natural Death after running up a long and very steep hill
Social Security #: 227-03-3065
Military Service: United States Navy Intelligence Officer
Political Party: Democrat
Political Office Held: Mayor of Marion Smyth County Virginia
Date of Burial: June 9, 1951
Death Certificate #: 14546
Informant: Mrs. Robert Lane Anderson AKA Mary Leigh Chryst [Wife]
Interment: Round Hill Cemetery Marion Smyth County Virginia

 

Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962 for Robert L. Anderson

Name: Robert L. Anderson Gender: Male Baptism/Christening Date:  Baptism/Christening Place:  Birth Date: 16 Aug 1907 Birthplace: Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio Father's Name: Sherwood Anderson Mother's Name: Lane Cornelia Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03952-8 System Origin: Ohio-EASy Source Film Number: 1294335 Reference Number: v 5 p 2

 

FamilySearch.org

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Ancestry.com

Source:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14459104/person/109795983

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Birth Record:
http://www.footnote.com/image/#68076809

THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL CENSUS OF ROBERT LANE ANDERSON

 

 

1910 United States Federal Census about Robert L Anderson

Name: Robert L Anderson Age in 1910: 2 Estimated birth year: abt 1908 Birthplace: Ohio Relation to Head of House: Son Father's name: Sherwood Anderson Father's Birth Place: Ohio Mother's name: Cornelia L Anderson  Mother's Birth Place: Ohio Home in 1910: Elyria Ward 4, Lorain, Ohio Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Elyria Ward 4, Lorain, Ohio; Roll: T624_1206; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 114; Image: 880.

 

Date taken: April 19, 1910

Source:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&indiv=try&h=135890368

 

1920 United States Federal Census about Robert Anderson

Name: Robert Anderson Home in 1920: Michigan City Ward 5, La Porte, Indiana Age: 12 Estimated birth year: abt 1908 Birthplace: Ohio Relation to Head of House: Son Father's Birth Place: Ohio Mother's name: Cornelia Anderson Mother's Birth Place: Ohio Marital Status: Single Race: White Sex: Male Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes  Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Michigan City Ward 5, La Porte, Indiana; Roll: T625_447; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 151; Image: 867.

 

Date taken:  January 9, 1920

Source:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1920usfedcen&indiv=try&h=10899694

Special Note:  1931 Travels mostly in South; Transfers Ownership of News Papers to Robert [Son]

 

Source:

http://books.google.com/books?id=7y1y1aEyU-EC&pg=PR23&lpg=PR23&dq=Cornelia+Lane+Anderson&source=bl&ots=fogZ4pcjHn&sig=iup5P8yM8HDX3AARWtRWmRrymsI&hl=en&ei=mjwhTZubOsT68AbRkv3PDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Cornelia%20Lane%20Anderson&f=false

 

1930 United States Federal Census about Robert L Anderson

Name: Robert L Anderson Home in 1930: Marion, Smyth, Virginia View Map Age: 22 Estimated birth year: abt 1908 Relation to Head of House: Son Parent's Name: Sherwood Anderson Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Marion, Smyth, Virginia; Roll: 2461; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 587.0. Occupation: Edit weekly paper

 

Date Taken: April 4, 1930

Source:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&indiv=try&h=99239525

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=VAT626_2461-0587&fn=Sherwood&ln=Anderson&st=r&ssrc=&pid=99239518

Married: December 18, 1931 Marion Smyth County Virginia

 

Bob and Mary were married on the December 18, 1931 in the Lutheran Church with only himself, Eleanor’s adoring aunt Miss May Scherer, and the Minister present [John Jacob Scherer II]

 

Chapter 5 Radical Pg 120

Sherwood Anderson:  A Writer in America Volume 2

Walter B. Rideout Introduction by Charles Modlin ISBN: 0-299-21530-X

Issues: Margaret, Elizabeth

 

Obituary:  Bob Anderson Marion Mayor, Dies Suddenly

Robert Lane Anderson, 44 year old Mayor of Marion and newspaper publisher, died unexpectedly late yesterday afternoon while on the golf course at Marion.  He was well known throughout this section.

 

Anderson, editor and publisher of the Smyth County News, was the son of the late Sherwood Anderson, novelist and playwright.  A native of Ohio, he had been Marion’s Mayor for the Past three years.  [1948-1951]

 

“Serves In Navy”

During World War II, he served with the Navy in the Pacific area as an air intelligence officer.  He was a Lieutenant Commander in the naval reserve.

 

Active in civic affairs, he was a former president of the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club.

 

Anderson was also active in the Virginia Press association for many years and was a contributor to the Lee memorial journalism foundation at Washington and Lee University.  He was the first president of the Mountain Empire Broadcasting Corp. which operated station WMEV at Marion.  He also was secretary—treasurer of the Marion Transit Co.

 

Active 20 Years

He was editor and publisher of the Smyth County News for 20 years having succeeded his father.  Anderson was a member of the staff of the Roanoke Times and also worked on a Philadelphia newspaper.  He also was president of the Young Democratic Clubs in Virginia.

 

The Marion publisher maintained an active interest in sports circles.  He was one of the founders of the Rich Valley horse show, was president of the Marion bowling league, and was on the board of directors of the golf club here.

 

Funeral Saturday

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Cryst [Chryst] Anderson; two daughters.  Margaret Anderson and Elizabeth Anderson Marion; his mother, Mrs. Cornelia Lane Anderson, Marion; a brother John Anderson, Abingdon Virginia; a sister, Mrs. Russell Spear, Madison N.C.

Funeral Services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 at Marion and will be attended by several Pulaskians.

 

 

WEB Source:

http://pclibs.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewer.aspx?img=167668638&firstvisit=true&src=search&currentResult=5&currentPage=100

 

Sixteen modern American authors: A survey of research and criticism since 1972

 By Jackson R. Bryer

http://books.google.com/books?id=Hg8BAR4lX-kC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=Margaret+Anderson+Stuart+Sixteen&source=bl&ots=JmezD2gIUp&sig=NrY32Z3hz-nPDnF-h8IGmRf8CX8&hl=en&ei=_gFTTfmdHYKclgeuiNT0Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

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http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&indiv=try&h=99239506

 

 

TIMES: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742897,00.html

 

 

 

The Press: Father to Son January 11, 1932

For the past four years in the hilly little town of Marion (pop.: 4,156) in south-west Virginia, shaggy Sherwood Anderson, author of A Story Teller's Story, Many Marriages, The Triumph of the Egg, has been publishing two thriving weekly papers, the Marion Democrat and the Smyth County News (Republican). Editor and business manager of the papers has been Author Anderson's red haired, 24-year-old son Robert Lane ("Bob") Anderson. Last week, a fortnight after his marriage to Mary Leigh Chryst, an English instructor in Marion Junior College, Son Robert bought control of the weeklies from Father Sherwood.

The new publisher is the child of Cornelia Lane Anderson, first of Author Anderson's three divorced wives. Educated in a Michigan City (Ind.)high school. Bob attended University of Virginia for a year, worked as a news gatherer and rewrite man on the Michigan City News, New Orleans Item-Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Indianapolis News, Vincennes (Ind.) Sun, Roanoke (Va.) Times, Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Marion papers he writes under the signature of "Zip Coon" (the elder Anderson signs himself "Buck Fever of Coon Hollow"). He has had nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer in its effort to find congenial com pany. He refuses to dress up on week days, goes about his business clad like a laborer, but is described as a "mighty sweet little advertising solicitor."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742897,00.html#ixzz1DRX7r4eJ

CHAPTER 5 RADICAL

HOUGH STILL SHAKEN BY THE MORNING’S work, Anderson was able that afternoon to draw up a contract up between himself and Bob, signed by both on the twelfth but go into effect on January 1, 1932. The contract provided for the transfer of fourteen-fifteenths of the newspaper’s assets $15,000 to his son who could not contract other debts until he had paid $5,000 each to John and Mimi by 1940, the fine one-fifteenth then to be sold to Bob for one dollar.  She would also report Eleanor that Andy Funk and he had finished all the papers for his divorce, though they would not filed and required notice be published in the newspaper until after she returned to New York from a Christmas Vacation home.

 

So on December 28, a bill in Chancery was issued with a subpoena to be served on Elizabeth Prall Anderson in California [The subpoena was delivered to her by her law professor brother-in-law Max Radin at Palo Alto on January 17, 1932.]

 ShERWOOD ANDERSON A WRITER IN AMERICA VOL 2

PG 120  WALTER B. RIDEOUT

ISBN 978-0-299-22020-4 90000

 

 THE OFFICIAL DEATH RECORD OF ROBERT LANE ANDERSON