Biographical Sketches
SAMUEL H. ANDERSON, M. D.
A popular physician of the homeopathic school of medicine, descends from families long prominent in the profession, as his father and mother's father were physicians of notable ability. He was born in Highland county, Ohio, July 8, 1850, and is a son of Dr. Samuel B. and Nancy L. (Davis) Anderson, natives of Ohio. His paternal grandfather, whose baptismal name was John, emigrated from York, Pennsylvania, to Ohio in the early settlement of that state, where he died. He participated in the War of 1812.
The father of our subject graduated at the Cincinnati Medical College in 1853, and subsequently located in Highland county, Ohio, where he successfully practiced until 1868; then he removed to Lawrence, Kansas, where he still resides, engaged in his profession. He is widely known in professional and social circles. For a number of years he was president of the Kansas Homeopathic Medical Society.
Dr. Samuel H. Anderson is the eldest of the 7 children in his father's family. He was reared in his native country, in the public schools of which he obtained the rudiments of an English education. He subsequently entered the Greenfield Seminary, in which he continued his literary course and was graduated. Accompanying his parents to Lawrence, Kansas, he entered the State University, which he attended one year. His inclination to medicine developed in his youth, and his study of the same began when he was 10 years old. After completing his literary education he systematically began the study of material medica under the preceptorship of his father, by whom he was carefully instructed and fitted for medical college, and was graduated in the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, at St. Louis, in 1876.
Returning to Lawrence, he established himself in practice, remaining there until 1881, when he came to Kansas City, where for 14 years he has continuously occupied the same office. For 2 years he was professor of surgery in the Kansas City Homeopathic College, and of the same institution he is now professor of obstetrics. He is a member of the Missouri State Homeopathic Medical Society, Missouri Valley Society, Kansas City Homeopathic Club, and the Western Academy of Homeopathy, and was identified with the State Medical Board of Kansas for several years.
His library of medical works is large, and in his cabinet is to be found all modern appliances and instruments necessary in the most delicate cases. His practice, always large and lucrative, is assuming still greater proportions, which best attests his success and prominence.
He was married in 1880 to Miss Julia Hostetter, of Kansas.
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