John Anderson
1812–81
American merchant and philanthropist. Tobacco merchant in New York; gave the island of Penikese, Massachusetts, to Louis Agassiz to found the Anderson School of Natural History, 1873.
Sources
Hall ed. 1895–6
Marcou 1896, 2: 201–7.
Bibliography
Hall, Henry, ed. 1895–6. America’s successful men of affairs: an encyclopedia of contemporaneous biography. 8 vols. New York: New York Tribune.
Marcou, Jules. 1896. Life, letters, and works of Louis Agassiz. 2 vols. London and New York: Macmillan and Co.
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