HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979. Page 556 RICHARD T. ANDERSON, Lexington; born in Lexington, Ky., in March, 1839; has passed his whole life in or near his birthplace; educated in the schools of the city and for some years in Transylvania University. He, at the age of twenty-one years, began farming in Sandersville Precinct of Fayette County, where he owned 400 acres of excellent land; using his farm for the raising of general crops and stock, he, about 1862, began to give some attention to trotting-horses, but more for pastime than for profit. In 1867, he became a director in the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical Association, and has been a Director ever since; and every year since 1877 has been re-elected President of the Board of Directors. He was a member of the banking firm of Headley, Anderson & Co., from March, 1870, till June, 1872, and since 1873 he has been a Director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky. He was for some years on the asylum Commission; also President of the Phoenix Hotel Company, and is Treasurer of the Breckinridge Monument Fund. In 1877, he and Mayor Viley gave their personal attention to the erection of the building known as the Amphitheater, and to Floral Hall, in 1881. Headley Anderson Viley = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fayette/anderson.rt.txt