History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 587.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

JOHN ANDERSON, P. O. Georgetown; was born in the County of Meath, in the
town of Athboy, Ireland, in June 1827.  He left his native home in 1846,
having received there a good common school education, and having learned
the requisites of a good farmer.  He arrived at New York City in April,
1847, where he enlisted in General Worth's regiment, Company K, Div.
Eighth Infantry of the Regular Army, and fought in the battles of Corro
Gordo and Chapultepec and others.  In 1848 he came to Kentucky, locating
in Scott County, where he worked at stone masonry for five years, when
he engaged in gardening and horticulturing, for which he had formed a
taste in his school days, having then in Ireland received some instructions
in forestry.  In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in General Buford's Brigade,
Sixth Kentucky Infantry, and fought until the battle of Murfreesboro when
he was taken sick and returned home.  By the war he lost all he had
accumulated, and since 1863 he has had charge of the Cemetery, doing all
the landscape gardening in a manner calling forth the admiration of all.
He is engaged in the culture of flowers which abound in great variety at
the Cemetery for decorative purposes.

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