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Dr William Nance Anderson

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Dr William Nance Anderson

Birth
Osceola, Polk County, Nebraska, USA
Death
8 Nov 1962 (aged 76)
Burial
Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Col. of Memory, Memorial Terrace, Lot 0, Space 19864
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WILLIAM NANCE ANDERSON, B. Sc., M. D.

Among the younger representatives of the medical profession in Omaha is Dr. William Nance Anderson, whose position is already a creditable one, while the qualities which he has displayed promise well for future advancement. Nebraska claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Osceola, July 31. 1886. He is a grandson of John Anderson, who although a native of England died in the United States. His father, John Henry Anderson, was born in Rugby. England, in 1838 and came with his parents to the new world when a youth of fifteen years, the family home being established at Racine, Wisconsin. There he was united in marriage to Margaret Clough Higgie and in 1870 they removed to this state. The father had previously served as a member of Company F, Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and toward the close of his term of enlistment was made sergeant of his company. Later he reenlisted and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in a regiment of Wisconsin artillery which formed a part of the famous "Iron Brigade." He was captured at the battle of Bull Run during the period of his first enlistment and for sixteen months was incarcerated in Andersonville prison. He died in the year 1907 but his widow survives.

After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools of Osceola Dr. Anderson continued his education in the University of Nebraska. from which he was graduated in 1908. He then took up the study of medicine in the same school and completed his course in 1910. For twenty months he was interne in the Clarkson Hospital at Omaha, which gave him broad and valuable practical experience along professional lines. In June, 1911, he became associated with Dr. Le Roy Crummer, of Omaha, for the practice of internal medicine, to which he now devotes his attention, and already he has attained a creditable place in professional circles.

On January 3, 1917, Dr. Anderson was married to Kathryn Elaine Brooks of Rushville, Nebraska, daughter of J. G. Brooks, of that place. Dr. Anderson is a member of the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity at the University of Nebraska. He was for three years a member of the Second Regimental Band of the Nebraska National Guard. He gives his political endorsement to the republican party and is always interested in those forces which make for higher ideals in citizenship and for cleaner government. In Masonry he has taken the Royal Arch degree of the York Rite and attained the eighteenth degree in the Scottish Rite. His social nature finds expression in his membership in the University Club and his religious belief in his membership in the Presbyterian church. He is a young man of great mental caliber, a progressive physician, and is spoken of by the older representatives of the profession as one who may be counted upon for progress and efficient service in his chosen calling.

source of biographical sketch: "Omaha: the Gate City and Douglas County, Nebraska", 1917, volume II, biographical sketch on pages 766 - 767
WILLIAM NANCE ANDERSON, B. Sc., M. D.

Among the younger representatives of the medical profession in Omaha is Dr. William Nance Anderson, whose position is already a creditable one, while the qualities which he has displayed promise well for future advancement. Nebraska claims him as a native son, his birth having occurred in Osceola, July 31. 1886. He is a grandson of John Anderson, who although a native of England died in the United States. His father, John Henry Anderson, was born in Rugby. England, in 1838 and came with his parents to the new world when a youth of fifteen years, the family home being established at Racine, Wisconsin. There he was united in marriage to Margaret Clough Higgie and in 1870 they removed to this state. The father had previously served as a member of Company F, Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and toward the close of his term of enlistment was made sergeant of his company. Later he reenlisted and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in a regiment of Wisconsin artillery which formed a part of the famous "Iron Brigade." He was captured at the battle of Bull Run during the period of his first enlistment and for sixteen months was incarcerated in Andersonville prison. He died in the year 1907 but his widow survives.

After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools of Osceola Dr. Anderson continued his education in the University of Nebraska. from which he was graduated in 1908. He then took up the study of medicine in the same school and completed his course in 1910. For twenty months he was interne in the Clarkson Hospital at Omaha, which gave him broad and valuable practical experience along professional lines. In June, 1911, he became associated with Dr. Le Roy Crummer, of Omaha, for the practice of internal medicine, to which he now devotes his attention, and already he has attained a creditable place in professional circles.

On January 3, 1917, Dr. Anderson was married to Kathryn Elaine Brooks of Rushville, Nebraska, daughter of J. G. Brooks, of that place. Dr. Anderson is a member of the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity at the University of Nebraska. He was for three years a member of the Second Regimental Band of the Nebraska National Guard. He gives his political endorsement to the republican party and is always interested in those forces which make for higher ideals in citizenship and for cleaner government. In Masonry he has taken the Royal Arch degree of the York Rite and attained the eighteenth degree in the Scottish Rite. His social nature finds expression in his membership in the University Club and his religious belief in his membership in the Presbyterian church. He is a young man of great mental caliber, a progressive physician, and is spoken of by the older representatives of the profession as one who may be counted upon for progress and efficient service in his chosen calling.

source of biographical sketch: "Omaha: the Gate City and Douglas County, Nebraska", 1917, volume II, biographical sketch on pages 766 - 767


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