Samuel Anderson    

SAMUEL ANDERSON, farmer, P.O. Black Hawk, was born in Beaver county in 1834. His grandfather, James, came to America about 1784, and settled in Washington county, where he was extensively engaged in farming. He had two sons and five daughters. Bernard, the eldest son, was born in Ireland, and came with his parents to America when three years of age. James purchased about 120 acres of land in Beaver county in 1808, his son Bernard settling upon same. Bernard married Elizabeth Hill, by whom he had six sons and three daughters, Samuel being the second youngest. Bernard died in 1860, aged seventy-six years, and his wife in 1865, aged seventy-two years. Samuel was reared on a farm and remained with his father until 1860, when he married Elizabeth, daughter of Wilson and Catherine (Barnes) Elliott, of New York state. They have had six children (five of whom are living): Virginia Catherine, Wilson, McClain, James Hill, William B.C. (deceased), and Olive Josephine. In 1883 Mr. Anderson purchased his present farm of 56 acres, nearly all of which is under cultivation. He is an elder in the United Presbyterian church; in politics a Republican.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com