Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Carroll Co.

GEORGE W. ANDERSON, JR., a native of Carroll County, Ky., was born June 19,
1849, and is the only living child born to George W. Anderson, Sr.; the
latter, a native of Boone County, was born in 1808, and is a son of
George and Sarah (Brooks) Anderson, natives of Maryland and North Carolina,
respectively. In 1834, George W. Anderson, Sr., married Miss Catherine
E. Gray, a native of Lawrenceburg, Ind., and nine children were born to
them, only one of whom is living, George W. Jr., whose name heads this
sketch. Mr. Anderson, Sr., is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and has been a prominent and successful business man; he retired
from business in 1883, and is now residing in Carrollton. He was
extensively engaged in flat boating to New Orleans, and previously kept
the Anderson County Ferry, established by his father. He located in
Carroll County in 1840, and has been engaged in mercantile business most
of this life.  George W. Anderson, Jr., was reared and educated in
Carroll County, and at the age of fifteen accepted a clerkship with
C. D. Imrey. When quite a young man he went to Martin, Tex., where he
engaged in mercantile business one year, and returning to Kentucky bought
and sold horses and mules, which he shipped South; he also engaged
extensively in piano and insurance business. In 1877 he engaged in the
livery business, and in 1879 and 1880 built the Carrollton and Worthville
Turnpike. In 1880 he engaged in the coal and contract business. This
business he carried on for five years, or until he went into steam-boating,
etc. In the spring of 1880 he built sixty houses and also built
Andersonville, a suburb of Carrollton. He is now extensively engaged in
steam-boating; is captain of "Blue Wing" steamer, which has plied
between Louisville and Frankfort since 1885. Mr. Anderson also runs
steamers "J. C. Kerr and J. M. Clark." Previously he was engaged by the
Government in the improvement of the Kentucky River, and built the first
house in the eastern division of Carrollton, in which he now owns about
twenty-six houses. In April, 1878, Mr. Anderson married Mrs. Violette H.
(Hornsby) Drake, of Louisville, Ky., a daughter of Dr. Thomas N. Hornsby,
the latter a member of an old and prominent family of Shelby County,
where he was born in 1813; he is a graduate of both law and medicine,
and now resides at Shelbyville; his father was Thomas Hornsby, who came
from Yarmouth, England, and was worth $5,000,000 when he came to this
country, and first settled in Virginia, coming finally to Kentucky to
protect a claim of 5,000 acres in Shelby County. The maternal grandfather
of our subject immigrated to Boone County immediately after Daniel
Boone; he died in 1839 at the age of seventy-four years.

Anderson Brooks Gray Imrey Hornsby Drake
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Boone MD NC IN Shelby England

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