Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 759-760 [Christian]

     DR. EDGAR C. ANDERSON, a prominent and progressive physician of
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was born in Christian county, Kentucky,
February 6, 1858.  His grandfather was a native of Virginia and a
farmer by occupation.  He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry.  Dr. M. W.
Anderson, the father of Dr. Anderson, was a native of Virginia, and
was a graduate of the University of Virginia and the medical school
at Lexington, Kentucky.  He had move to Brownsville, Tennessee, in
boyhood, with his father, and was reared there.  After receiving his
professional education he located in Gallatin, Tennessee, and thence
went to Todd county, Kentucky, practicing near Trenton for a number
of years, and came to Christian county in 1853 and engaged in
farming and speculating near Newstead.  He died in St. Louis in
1863.  His wife was Nancy F. Harris, who was born in Hanover county,
Virginia, and died in 1872.
     Dr. Edgar C. Anderson was the seventh of eight children in his
parents' family.  He was reared in Christian county, and his first
schooling was under George P. Street, and from there he went to
Eminence College in Henry county, Kentucky.  He graduated from the
Louisville Medical College in 1879, and then located at Newstead,
where he was successfully engaged in practice until 1895, in which
year he located in Hopkinsville, where he has built up a
representative practice and gained the confidence of the people by
his ability and winning manners.  In the year before locating in
Hopkinsville he attended the Post-Graduate school in New York for
four months, and thus equipped himself by theoretical demonstration
and study for the great work which he had undertaken.
     Dr. Anderson was married in 1895 to Mrs. Susan S. Jones, of
Hopkinsville, who died in November, 1896, without leaving issue. 
July 15, 1901 he married to S. Belle Moore, of Hopkinsville.  Dr.
Anderson was bereaved of his second wife on January 30, 1902, and he
has enjoyed married life altogether but one year and eight months. 
He is a prominent member and deacon of the Christian church, and in
every public-spirited enterprise performs the part of a good
citizen.

Anderson Harris Street Jones Moore
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Hanover-VA TN Todd-KY MO

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