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:
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:
Special Note: 1931 Travels mostly in South; Transfers
Ownership of News Papers to Robert [Son]
Source:
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:
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]
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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:
Sixteen modern American
authors: A survey of research and criticism since 1972
By Jackson R. Bryer
Page 20
Date Taken:
Source:
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."
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
