With the substantial development and upbuilding of Sheridan, Wyoming, Oscar Noah Anderson has been prominently and actively identified for a number of years. He is a native of Sheridan, Illinois. His father, Erasmus Anderson, was born in Stavanger, Norway, and came with his parents to the new world when but two years of age, the family home being established in Leland, Illinois. After attaining man's estate he wedded Ellen Peterson, who was born at Leland, Illinois, and who passed away in Lincoln, Nebraska, in August, 1904. Mr. Anderson survives and now makes his home in Sheridan, Wyoming.
    Oscar N. Anderson, accompanying his parents on their removal to Nebraska, was graduated from the high school at Aurora, Nebraska, in 1895 and in the following year he entered the Nebraska State University, where he spent three and a half years as a student. He would have graduated as a member of the class of 1902, but came to Sheridan, Wyoming, for a summer vacation the previous year and never returned to finish the university course. He had become a member of the Kappa Sigma, a Greek letter fraternity, during the period of his student days in the University of Nebraska. While a resident of Sheridan he has been engaged in the real estate, abstract, insurance and loan business and has been one of the directors of the Sheridan Building & Loan Association since its organization six years ago. He is thoroughly conversant with the real estate market, knows the property that is for sale and is correct in placing valuation thereon. He also conducts an abstract business and writes a considerable amount of insurance annually.
    On the 16^th of May, 1911, Mr. Anderson was married in Billings, Montana, to Miss Julia Belle Boehne, a daughter of Alfred Herman and Elizabeth M. Boehne, the latter at one time national president of the Woman's Relief Corps. To Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have been born two children: Philip Craig, a lad of three and a half years: and Ruth Ellen Anderson, about a year and a half old.
    Mr. and Mrs. Anderson hold membership in the Presbyterian church and fraternally he is connected with the Masonic lodge and chapter and with the Eastern Star. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For the past four years he has been one of the directors of the Sheridan Commercial Club, His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he was deputy county clerk of Sheridan county, Wyoming, from 1908 until 1909, but retired from that position to enter the real estate business, in which he has since been an active and prominent factor. He stands loyally for all that has to do with the general welfare and upbuilding of his community and is one of the prominent and progressive citizens of Sheridan.