Descendants of JOHN ANDERSON
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN1 ANDERSON was born 1750, and died 1818. He married JERUSHA BRIDGE 1791 in Halifas N.S., daughter of JOHN BRIDGE.
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From Scotland to Canada
Child of JOHN ANDERSON and JERUSHA BRIDGE is:
2. i. WILLIAM2 ANDERSON, b. 1792; d. 1852.
Generation No. 2
2. WILLIAM2 ANDERSON (JOHN1) was born 1792, and died 1852. He married HARRIET LANGLEY 1813 in Canada, daughter of EDWARD LANGLEY and SARAH GARDNER.
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M.D. U.R.C.S. graduate of Edinborough Univ. Scotland, came to Canada
First professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Univ. of Vermont
Authority church records Halifax NS and family letters also Anderson Church records Staten Island, NY
Child of WILLIAM ANDERSON and HARRIET LANGLEY is:
3. i. WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3 ANDERSON, b. 1814; d. September 30, 1882, Kingston Staten Island, NY.
Generation No. 3
3. WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3 ANDERSON (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1814, and died September 30, 1882 in Kingston Staten Island, NY. He married LOUISA MORGAN 1832, daughter of THOMAS MORGAN and JANE JENNER.
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Dr. William Astly Cooper Anderson arrived on Staten Island approximately 1843. Harriet Anderson, his mother, and Sidney Morgan, his sister-in-law, lived with him according to the 1855 census. On March 29 1868, his mother died. Dr. W C Anderson had a plot in Moravian Cemetery and this is where she was buried. Dr. William Anderson was married to Louisa (Morgan) Anderson in 1832. She past away Aug. 22, 1873, at the age of 50 yrs, in Annapolis. She too was buried in Moravian Cemetery. On September, 30, 1882 at the age of 68 1/2 yrs, at Kingston Ulster, William C. Anderson past on, again, being buried in the Anderson plot. One more to mention being buried in this plot is William E. Anderson, his son. He died at the age of 65 years on December 30, 1902 in Novia Scotia.
At the time of Dr. W C Andersons death his will shows his children Frank living in New York City, Lousia living in Garden City Queens and William E. living in Novia Scotia.
According to the 1875 Census, it shows James Buchanan Henry and Louisa (Anderson) Henry, their daughter, living with Dr. Anderson. They had married December 18, 1872, at this residence, by T. W. Punnett-witnesses were Roosevelt's, Duer's, Low's, Davia's, Buchanan's, Munro's, and Morgan's.
If one would wish to locate Dr. William C Anderson's land holdings on Staten Island, They could do so by looking at the 1874 Atlas on section-13. It shows his land is bounded by Pennsylvania Ave, Anderson St, Clifton Ave, and New York Ave. Anderson St. at that time was one short block. It now rounds from St. Johns Ave to Lynhurst Ave. (Maple Ave on 1874 Atlas), Pennsylvania Ave is now Hyland Blvd, New York Ave is now Bay St. Anderson Avenue is located in Rosebank of Staten Island and was named in Honor of Dr. William C. Anderson. The Anderson house is shown on the 1853 Butler Map of Staten Island. Dr W C Anderson did get the underwater land grant for the beach front.
The Medical Society of Richmond County, (which Dr. William C Anderson had joined about 1850-52 and became president of the same), felt the need to establish an infirmary for the care of the sick poor, and for the reception of casualties. They appointed a committee to report a plan for its organization. Dr William C Anderson (as he was known-apparently used only one middle name) was a prime mover in the establishment which became the S.R. Smith Infirmary, now Staten Island Hospital. It began with the opening in 1861 of a "Dispensary" in the building corner of Bay St. and Union Place. One source lists him as THE FOUNDER.
The "Sepoy", a newspaper, was started by Dr William C Anderson in February of 1859 at Stapleton, where he lived. It was to defend the people of Staten Island from unjust attacks in consequence of the burning of the Quarentine. The newspaper was published every Saturday until the issue of the moving of the Quarantine was resolved. The March 19, 1859 issue, regarding the Hospital ship, quotes a letter to editor Mr W.C. Anderson, who is referred to as being "Experience in management of hospital, especially of the treatment of Yellow Fever Patients." This statement in regard to W C Anderson suggestion in a letter to the commissioner of Emigration and Published in the Herald, concerning the use of a "floating" hospital ship. Mr Anderson had sugested the use of a hospital ship fashioned after one that was being used off London at the time. The public museum has copies of the paper, some of which were given by Eleanor Hoge at the request of her mother Dorothy Morgan Anderson. George M Root was the editor and he went on to start the "Gazette" when the "Sepoy" folded in June of 1859.
Dr. William C. Anderson was on the list of officers for the St. Paul's Memorial Church in April 1870.
Dr. Frank Anderson, US Navy 1886, was baptised Feb 21, 1853 by Rev. R. M. Abercrombia at St. John's Church Rosebank, Staten Island. He was witness to the marriage of Louis P. Bayard to Mildred McK Lea at St. Paul's Ep Church on April 22 1874 and witness of the baptism of Samuel Roosevelt Outbridge, born Aug 5, 1875.
A Captain Anderson of this family (unknown first name) was instrumental in establishing the Cedar Grove Beach Club.
Children of WILLIAM ANDERSON and LOUISA MORGAN are:
i. WILLIAM EDWARD4 ANDERSON, b. 1839; d. 1902.
ii. JANE MORGAN ANDERSON, b. 1841; d. 1842.
iii. CHARLES MORGAN ANDERSON, b. 1843; d. 1844.
iv. GEORGE COOPER ANDERSON, b. 1847; d. 1847.
4. v. LOUISA ANDERSON, b. 1848; d. 1886.
5. vi. FRANK ANDERSON, b. July 20, 1852, Staten Island, New York, NY; d. March 31, 1921.
Generation No. 4
4. LOUISA4 ANDERSON (WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1848, and died 1886. She married JAMES BUCHANAN HENRY 1872.
Children of LOUISA ANDERSON and JAMES HENRY are:
6. i. WILLIAM COOPER ANDERSON5 HENRY, b. 1873; d. 1943.
7. ii. JAMES BUCHANAN HENRY , JR, b. 1875; d. 1961.
8. iii. ROBERT EDWARD HENRY, b. 1877; d. 1943.
9. iv. SIDNEY MORGAN HENRY, b. 1878; d. 1959.
10. v. REGINALD BUCHANAN HENRY, b. 1881; d. 1969.
11. vi. FRANK ANDERSON HENRY, b. 1883.
5. FRANK4 ANDERSON (WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born July 20, 1852 in Staten Island, New York, NY, and died March 31, 1921. He married ELEANOR CALDER COFFIN June 17, 1886, daughter of GEORGE COFFIN and MARY CARTWRIGHT.
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Captain U.S. Navy medical core
Baptised St John's Episcopal Church, Clifton, Staten Island 2/21/1853.
Marriage Notes
Nantucket Town records show a son George Coffin born June 16, 1869-no further record of the son seems to exist.
Children of FRANK ANDERSON and ELEANOR COFFIN are:
12. i. DOROTHY MORGAN5 ANDERSON, b. May 2, 1887, Staten Island NY; d. July 16, 1979, Bristol RI buried Jamestown RI.
13. ii. ELEANOR ANDERSON, b. August 3, 1890.
Generation No. 5
6. WILLIAM COOPER ANDERSON5 HENRY (LOUISA4 ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1873, and died 1943. He married MARY LAMAR DUBIGNON 1906.
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Was gen supt motive power PA System Southwestern Region
Children of WILLIAM HENRY and MARY duBIGNON are:
i. WILLIAM ANDERSON6 HENRY, b. 1908; m. (1) BESSIE AGENS MAYNARD, 1937; m. (2) JANET (MACCOLLUM) JORDAN, 1983.
ii. CARO DUBUGNON HENRY, b. 1909; m. (1) MICHAEL MCDOWELL; m. (2) ALBERT HOWELL II, 1930.
7. JAMES BUCHANAN5 HENRY , JR (LOUISA4 ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1875, and died 1961. He married MARY CATHERINE MCCLAUGHRY 1904.
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Was ensign USN Lt. Col. USA WW I
Children of JAMES HENRY and MARY McCLAUGHRY are:
i. ELIZABETH MCCLAUGHRY6 HENRY, b. 1905; m. (1) PAUL GAD, 1939; m. (2) HENRY H BRUHN, 1956.
ii. JAMES BUCHANAN HENRY III, b. 1919; m. ELEANOR (NIXON) MCNEILL, 1945.
8. ROBERT EDWARD5 HENRY (LOUISA4 ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1877, and died 1943. He married VIRGINIA BELL TOLAR 1904.
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Was chm Bd Tolar Hart Holt Mills Fayetteville NC
Children of ROBERT HENRY and VIRGINIA TOLAR are:
i. ROBERT EDWARD6 HENRY , JR, b. 1906; m. (1) HESTER MAKEPEACE HOMER, 1930; m. (2) BETTY (MNU) HENRY, Aft 1930.
ii. JOHN TOLAR HENRY, b. 1913; m. (1) PRISCILLA ADELE STEERS, 1937; m. (2) DOROTHY JANE BEYER, 1945.
9. SIDNEY MORGAN5 HENRY (LOUISA4 ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1878, and died 1959. He married (1) JULIA BARNETT PERSONS 1907. He married (2) KATHERINE ELIZABETH CRABBS 1948.
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Captain CC USN WW I vice pres USSB Emergency Fleet Corp VP Munson SS Line
Children of SIDNEY HENRY and JULIA PERSONS are:
i. SIDNEY MROGAN6 HENRY , JR, b. 1908; m. OLIVIA AMES (PETERS) POOL, 1948.
ii. JULIA PERSONS HENRY, b. 1909; d. 1911.
10. REGINALD BUCHANAN5 HENRY (LOUISA4 ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1881, and died 1969. He married JANE BYRD RUFFIN 1918.
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MD USN
Res. Norfolk VA
Children of REGINALD HENRY and JANE RUFFIN are:
i. EVELYN BYRD6 HENRY, b. 1919; m. GEORGE HARRIS SARGEANT , JR, 1946.
ii. REGINALD BUCHANAN HENRY , JR, b. 1926; m. (1) RUTH MCAFEE, 1955; m. (2) BARBARA ANNE DIX, 1968.
11. FRANK ANDERSON5 HENRY (LOUISA4 ANDERSON, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1883. He married GLADYS (ALLEN) MARTIN 1921.
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Was in US Foreign Service res. Nutley Sussex England
Child of FRANK HENRY and GLADYS MARTIN is:
i. PAMELA JOAN6 HENRY, b. 1923.
12. DOROTHY MORGAN5 ANDERSON (FRANK4, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born May 2, 1887 in Staten Island NY, and died July 16, 1979 in Bristol RI buried Jamestown RI. She married PHILIP BARLOW HOGE April 13, 1918 in Annapolis MD, son of WILLIAM HOGE and MARY STEARNS.
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The following is a letter written by Dorothy Anderson Hoge sometime between 1965 and 1970..
ANDERSON FAMILY
Unfortunately, I don't know too much. Eleanor Fay and Reg Henry had as much as they could get from the family cousins in old letters in Halifax, N.S. Canada, but one of the early immigrant decendants, a son, became a doctor and established the first medical school in Vermont. Another one had three daughters, Harriet, Ann, and Dorothy. He was a lieutenant in the British army named Langley. That's where the Langleys came in. Harriet married William Astley Cooper Anderson who had studied medicine in Edinburgh as all good doctors did in those days, and also as had his father who named him after a famous doctor professor there. W.A.C Anderson was my great grandfather. He and Harriet migrated to Staten Island. His son, same name, married Louisa Morgan, whose father was a N.Y. banker. Her brother was the Uncle Charles whose portrait we have. My father and Lulie (the Henry's mother) and Willie, the only survivors of a number of children. Willie was crippled in some way, a recluse, moved back to Halifax. Ann Langley, great grandmother of the Creighton family in Halifax. Their mother, the cousin Helen we knew.
I'm not sure how the New Orleans property came into the family, but it was there in my Grandfather Anderson's day, through his wife Louisa Morgan who had inherited her shares. My father gradually bought up the Henry boys' divided inheritance as they came of age so that he owned all his mother's share, which set him somewhat ahead financially (eventually) of most U.S. Navy doctors.
HENRY
They don't know much of anything about the Henry antecedents, but their father's mother was a sister of President Buchanan. That's how he came to be President Buchanan's private secretary and special emissary to the court of St. James. He had two sons by his first wife who was a Magruder. So he was an older widower when Lulie Anderson was married to him. No doubt, he was supposed to be something, but my father, though I don't remember his ever actually saying anything, never liked him much and resented the way he took over her money (lost it), and used to go off to Europe with his older son, Joe, and leave his "sainted Lulie" with all those little boys and one servant. She died of pneumonia, taking care of baby Frank, and pregnant with the seventh. My father stuck around whenever possible and took care of the little boys who had everything. Jim nearly died of Diptheria. My father put a tube in his throat and sucked out the infection, Uncle Henry away. He didn't marry until after Lulie Died. Wanted to take Frank who was named for him, but Uncle Henry thought my mother too young and flighty. Frank and Reg, then one year and three years, were given to Aunt Hattie Irving to take care of, niece of Washington Irving, a nice old maid, reputed to have been engaged to marry my Grandfather Anderson after my grandmother died. She was nice, and always kept Frank, which was not too good for him. Aunt Belle Robson from Halifax came and took care of the other four boys for a few years, also Aunt Sidnay Morgan, Spinster, my grandmother's sister. Reg's records have most of this. I Told Sid about my father. He was surprised.
As the Henry boys grew older they were put into various not too expensive schools, except Frank, who went to a good school in Staten Island. My memory picks up where Aunt Hattie Irving (my Godmother) used to bring Frank to visit us in the 19th Street house in Washington. She dressed in black silk with a triangle of lace on her head topped with a lavender bow. I thought she was a hundred, but she was probably sixty. Frank was a sort of stilted, highly literary, anxious for playmates little boy, quizzical sense of humor which he always had, but blind in one eye which made him "different". He had several operations, which made it less obvious. I first remember Reg when he was about fourteen, came to George Washington Catholic Boarding School, spent his holidays with us. He thought he'd be a Bishop, it was a good job. Sid came too, and went to day school. He was sixteen. Still in short pants. Lived with us for a while, especially when my father was at sea, and my mother in the house alone with us, two servants. My grandparents Coffin had lived on R street until my grandmother died when I was six, and my grandfather applied for sea duty. He came back and lived with us in 1895-96. As the boys grew up, their father "placed" them, no special regard to what they wanted. Will, the eldest, at fifteen, went into railroad shops, (he wanted to be a doctor, but Uncle Henry said he couldn't afford anything and had Cassatt cousins) Jim into the Naval Academy, he wanted West Point. Rob into West Point, he wanted that, but failed in math for lack of any preparation, and his father said he disgraced the family and wouldn't do anything more for him. So Rob said, "Give me a dollar to go to New York, and you'll be free of me." So he did. Rob got a job sweeping out an office, and as you know, got his own banking and investing business, Sid wanted the navy, and "retrieved" the Henry reputation by graduating second in his class and becoming National Fencing Champion. He went on to M.I.T. and then retired and went into business as maritime finance consultant, at one time president of Matson Lines. Reg, not prepared for anything, but crazy for one of the services, worked for Rob for a while but was then to old for an appointment so only opening was a line. He chose medicine and the older boys clubbed together and put him through U. of Virginia then medical school, and he got into the Navy, served with marine corps. not too hot as a practising doctor, but good on public health. Laid out San Juan System. They all married their own kind of people and never any question about their tastes or how they behaved. They had the advantage while young of visiting us in vacations and going for a while in the summers to Lake George where their father was commodore of Lake George Yachting Club where they met nice girls and were a part in the regattas. Will married May Du Bignon of Atlanta. He became Supt of Eastern Lines of Penn. R.R. Jim married Mary McLaughry from Leavenworth. Her father was a prison authority and introduced thumb printing to U.S. Rob married Jean Tolar, Bay Ridge, they lived at St. John's Place Brooklyn, where I used to visit them. I was bridesmaid at their wedding while I was at Oldfields. The "Mister" announced his engagement at Rob's wedding to Margaret, 50 years younger the he. They were married nine years. My father's only remark was she got more out of him than his sister ever did. But he left nearly nothing and the boys took care of her until she died. You know about Reg and Frank.
COFFIN
The Coffin geneology is pretty complete and is on record for us with the Colonial Dames. Reg also had it where it interlocked with us. He also had what was known of the Anderson connection. My mother was Eleanor Calder Coffin, her mother Mary Calder Cartwright. (I think her mother was Starbuck, my grandmother). She married George William Coffin, Nantucket, who was brought up by aunt and uncle, his parents dead. He was the first of the sea-going Coffins who went into the U.S. Navy, graduated early (from Naval Academy) because of Civil War held Fort Fisher (at age 21) until Fort Sumter was taken, wounded in leg, promoted to Lt. Cmdr. went to Russia and Admiral Farragut - that's why my mother was called Lena. Volunteered for Greely Relief Expedition and had command of the "Alert" - one of the three ships commanded by Admiral Schley. He stood in the crow's nest 72 hours and got his leg frozen where it had been wounded. After return was offered head of navigation but turned it down and took the Lighthouse Service because, I think, it kept him near home, and my grandmother was ill. The Lighthouse Service was then under the Navy. After her death, he went to sea, on U.S.S. Charleston to the Far East. plotted Manila Bay (then Spanish) then sent plans to Admiral Dewey (his roommate at Annapolis) who had never been there, and who used them in battle of Manilla Bay. He retired in 1896, went to Yokohama with us, went back to active duty during war 1899, but it was too much for him, died in Yokohama in 1900. Until his death I knew him better than I knew my father, and was with him a great deal. He was wonderful.
WHERE WE WERE AND PROBABLE DATES - PROBABLY ACCURATE FROM THE SAME LETTER
(see above)
I was born May 2, 1887, in New Brighton Staten Island. My father was at sea at the time and probably my grandfather also because I have never found any allusion to him at the time. Evidently my grandmother and mother went to Staten Island because of my father's connections, though by that time his immediate family was all dead. Aunt Hattie Irving was there however, taking care of Frank who was three and Reg, six. Reg was the one able to testify as to my birth and christening when I applied for a passport since he remimbered being at the christening and its being in a house with the bishop in charge which it made is difficult to find a record in a parish church. The local minister of the community where the house was, was not New Brighton. Aunt Hattie was my godmother. I don't know when my grandparents moved to Washington to 2023 R St. but that's where we all were until I was about four years old whn the 19th St. house was built. Eleanor was born in the R St. house Aug. 3rd, 1890. My grandfather was then head of the Light House Service, then under the Navy Dept.
My parents built the 19th St. house when Eleanor was about 18 months old. My grandmother must have given them most of the money from a small legacy because she stipulated that the house should never be sold unless it was replaced by another. The idea in those days being a house was the only safeguard for a widow who could always take boarders. They had seen to many destitute Navy widows. My grandparents were young themselves, my grandmother scarcely 40, Nana. My father was seventeen years older than my mother.
We lived at 1628 19th St. until my father was ordered to Yokohama in 1897. He was attached to the Naval Dispensary for part of the time but had a quite extensive private practice which they could at that time, and a reputation as a diagnosticion. The latter part of the time was his sea duty, attached to U.S.S. (unable to fully decipher the name of the ship appears like Archlintrite), I think a gunboat, at the disposal of the president because on one cruise the Chinese ammbassador was aboard with the President - the famous Li Huong Chang (not sure of this spelling). So the ship was often at the navy yard. I remember going there to see the ship once, but I don't remember the ship, just going. My father while ashore on Dispensary duty had a horse and a closed sort of vehicle, not a buggy, and a colored driver named Spencer.
My grandmother died in 1893. My grandfather immediately applied fo sea duty and went to Japan and the Philippines on U.S.S. Charleston as Captain It was there he mapped Manila Bay which afterwards served Admiral Dewey when he took Manila in the Spanish American War. My grandfather never made admiral. He had been ordered to South America right after having had his leg frozen on the Arctic Expedition to rescue General Greely and developed Bright's disease which it affected his heart, and he retired in 1895 or 6 and lived with us at 1628 19th Street while my father was at sea, when we all went to Yokohama on October 7, 1897. My father preceded us in August and was there to meet us. We were in Yokohama at the Naval Hospital from Nov. 1897 (it took us a month to get there from Washington, 5 days train, a stop in San Francisco, 18 days by P & O Steamer ) to Oct. 1900. It looked like a split in the family then. My grandfather had died 10 months previously and had evidently left money to my mother to take me to Europe to school, ( I was always his "pearl of pride" and had spent much of my childhood with them, and in Yokohama in his separate little house on the Bluff where he had a "boy", a victoria to ride in, and two fox terriers, Chubbie and Gus.) Anyway my mother and I took the N.G. Lloyd Sachsen steamer for Europe and my father took Eleanor to U.S. and left her with Aunt Hattie and Frank in New Brighton until my mother had found the Paris school for me, and rejoined them.
Polly Condis Smith, sister of Mrs. Albert Key. Key was in the Embassy at Tokyo. Another sister was Mrs. Leonard Wood, Governor of Philippines after Spanish American War. Polly had just survived the Boxer Rebellion in Peking and was quite famous for her maintenance work during the siege. She travelled with mother and me to Paris and I shared a stateroom with her on N. G. Lloyd Oldenburg in the Mediterranean after our two weeks in Cairo. She was only 23. She left us in Paris to get married to Richard Hooker, Marine Corps. Needless to say I gleamed an awful lot about her experience in Peking. Most of the people I knew anyway as they had passed through Yokohama on their way.
I was in the Paris school from December 1900 until August 1901 when mother came over to see me and spend a month at St Marguerite in Brittany with some friends she had known in Japan-the Wilders from Honolulu. We were in Hotel de la Plage, they in a cottage. Eleanor had been left with Mrs Knox and Marguerite to go to Lake George. But I was ill- headache, sort of a nervous breakdown and she brought me home instead. My father was again at sea and the 19th Street house rented, so we had an appartment at the Portner,15th and U Street. I was in bed most of the year, until I was 15. Eleanor went to the Miss Dorsey's School where I went after a while. It was then I got to know Grace Allen and Alice Goodwin and Constance Hoyt,sister of Elinor Hoyt Wylie who afterwards married William Rose Benet. Also Mary Howry who now lives in Jamestown, and other native Washington young and Army and Navy girls. This was a few years before the rival school of Holton-Arms. I only went spasmodically until I went to Oldfields in 1905.
My father still at sea, Eleanor and I went to Oldfields in October 1905. Rob Henry was married late October and we went to Bayridge, Brooklyn for the wedding. I was bridesmaid. The winter of 1905-6 Eleanor and I were at Oldfields and my father back, a house was rented for the summer on DeSales Street opposite the convent which was later torn down to make the Mayflower Hotel. Blanche Brune (VanDusen) stayed with us,also Frank Henry. In October, my father was ordered to the Mare Island Navy Yard, and we left for California. It was a lovely overland train trip. I rembered it from the one we had taken in 1897. Not very different. We had drawing rooms both times.
We got the quarters on Mare Island at a beautiful time of year. I loved the eucalyptus and hedge of nasturtiums. Big comfortable house. Sid Henry had been ordered there after leaving MIT in the Construction Corps. They were building a ship. Captain of the Yard was his "bete noir". It was there he met Julia Persons whose father was a Doctor attached to the Marine Barracks. My father had the Naval Dispensary of the Yard. Married June 1908.
We were at Mare Island from October 1905 to February 1908-at least the family was. I left in May 1908 to go to Minneapolis to visit Blanche who had married George VanDusen and was expecting Georgie, who showed up in August. I travelled from San Francisco to Chicago in the private car of Mr. Hobart Moore who was President of the Rock Island Railroad. Lucy Powell was Mrs. Moore's friend and sort of general companion as Mr. Moore was an invalid. He never spoke but wanted to play bridge all the time. Lucy had been a close friend of mother's since Yokohama days. The Moores took me along as her friend and to make a fourth for bridge. I played all the way from San Francisco to Chicago and never played again. The Moore's only child, Than, had died at 25 after a wild life. He had been married to a darling girl, Helen Fargo, who had a hard time with him. He was of the era when rich young men gave parties for the Flora Dora Chorus and he presented each one with a diamond bracelet. The Moores were sunk. The private car was named Thanis after him. I left them at Chicago and took the train on to Minneapolis. I left there and went to stay with Jim and Mary Henry and Betty, then four, at Ft Snelling across the river from St Paul. It was certainly a contrast to the VanDusens at Lake Minnetoka. Jim was a 1st Lt in the 4th Cavalry by then. It was a new experience for me Army life. I didn't like it, but enjoyed the visit and Jim. From there, in August, I went to Colombus Ohio to visit Will and May Henry. Billy was three months old. With them I went to Lake George where mother and Eleanor came. We were there until late September.
My father was ordered to Annapolis from Mare Island. The Naval Hospital was being built. He supervised the finishing and got it started. He was the first one to try out women nurses in the Navy. Before he got to Annapolis we three stayed at Carvel Hall but eventually rented the Colihan House 61 College Avenue opposite St John's College Campus. I liked the Annapolis years, but I was too old for the midshipmen. Eleanor was just right for it. I had had the most glamorous of social life then extant in San Francisco as my mother's happiest young years had been spent there and her friends married with children my age and up in the world. I had missed the Great White Fleet as it engulfed Mare Island and gave Eleanor and FlorenceTurner such heavy Navy life, but I didn't mind that. I was never too much for the Navy. In Annapolis I had individual friends of both Midshipmen and Officers, but as always it was Eleanor who appealed to them first, being so attractive and gay. After a while certain of them settled down to both of us, some to me, but it was, except in afew cases always Eleanor first. Anyway, I hated the hops. I wanted still to study art, which I couldn't do at Mare Island. I went up to Baltimore twice a week to private lessons from Miss. Haycroft who had been a pupil of (William) Morris in London. She taught crafts and design. I remember her first surprised remark to her assistant-"Why, this girl can draw !!". She explained that most who came to study design had no idea of drawing or use of mediums. Anyway that's what I was more interested in. The first summer there we took a cottage at Bolton Landing, Lake George, an improvement on Hague. The next summer I went to England with the Frys to visit Frances Bright. I came back from a wonderful trip and stay in England with the Brights in Rochdale Lancashire, and then at the Mitchells. Sir William was then President of Shell Oil, they had been friends of us and the Frys in Yokohama. Winnie Mitchell was one of my friends there. They had a big Elizabethan place called Tudor Hall with moat, deer park and all the appurtenances. I got back in October, midst of Hudson-Fulton celebration 1909. Rush Fay had graduated in mid summer,and he and Eleanor were engaged. I am wrong about when we took the cottage at Bolton. Not that first summer-it was the second summer, because Rush got leave from his first cruise and came to Bolton for his two weeks. Also, Bolivar Mead who graduated in 1910. So Bolton was 1910. The spring of 1911 we went to Washington, my father retired and was put on a Naval Examining Board which kept him busy. We were back at 1628 19th Street and they did over a lot of the house. After that for me it was Washington social life. I saw more of Phil who was then working on sidewalks, and Jerry Creighton just back from Heidelberg-an odd one, but we got on beautifully, Harriet Bayne whom I'd known so long anyway, and now engaged to Guy Castle who had been at Mare Island and at that time devoted to Florence. I was taken for a debutante and thrown in with that group, as Eleanor and Rush were married in May 1912 and I was the one home. It was gay and I enjoyed a lot of it but a lot was an awful bore, especially the calling and the big balls. My father being looked upon as "moneyed" sort of put us in a different bracket. Probably his entire entire income was not over $10,000 but most people had 5 or 6. The summer after Eleanor was married, I went to Narragansett with Mrs Bayne and Harriot and Louise. I roomed with Harriot. It was awfully different then. Very gay, casino, beach wide open, and board walk like Atlantic City. That winter I got the measles. All the servants left. I was very sick. Afterwards for a change Mother and I went to New Orleans and there I had a wonderful time. Hugh Aiken's brother Gayle and I hit it off right away and I did the Mardi Gras with him. Also some Navy men whom I had known were on a ship in port, and another man, a student at some import business gave me some parties and a very good time. The Dene's, Charles and Alphonse did a lot for us in the old New Orleans line of native life. They had been agents for my father's real estate there for a hundred years. That Washington era took us up to the summer of 1914 when my parents went to England as their 25th Anniversary celebration and got caught in a war. I was at Newport with Eleanor at a boarding house on K Street. Rush was Captain of a submarine in Newport. That was when he got facial paralysis. Back in Washington that winter I went to New York to study art at the Women's School of Fine and Applied Art on Lexington Avenue at 4th. The first winter I boarded around, had a lot of appendicitis pain and finally had an operation in the spring. The next winter I lived mostly with the Van Vechten Olcotts on 72d Street and Central Park West. It was another different experience. He was a congressman from New York and she was the daughter of the Hoffman House Hoffmans. Lots of money. Uncle Van was a friend of my father from the Staten Island days.
In l9l5 my family built the house at Wardour on the 2 acre lot they bought when we lived in Annapolis. The idea was looking toward retirement and my mother was taken with the idea of a garden, and perhaps two riding horses. The place was just being opened up. The Valiants (Rush's sister Florence) bought a big lot on the creek side, the Doyens (sister Claude) another, and various other people. Turned out to be not too congenial after some years. It was a beautiful fair-sized southern sort of house. T. J. D. Fuller, architect. That was the year I had appendicitis. In the summer while it was building after I got strong enough, my mother and I went west. She to the Expo at San Francisco, while I stopped off with Blanche at Lake Minnetonka. That was the summer Tracy came there and in the fall had his house party at Great Lakes.
My father fell into the Wardour idea but it never worked for him. He was a scholar and a student but no gardener . Mother loved it. There was a lovely garden and they had a sleeping porch which they liked. Rush was ordered to Annapolis so they were there a lot, and finally lived there until it was sold when they went to China. My father was there less than a year being ordered back to duty in Philadelphia. The Washington House was rented and finally sold (for $l2,000, imagine). I never liked Wardour- climate, garden or people. You could take the Short Line car to Baltimore or into Annapolis, but I only liked it when people came to see us which many did and it broke the time I was there. Sarah, who worked for us and came out from Camp Mead every day was the best thing about it.Somewhere is the paper I wrote for The Monday Evening Club called "Don't Rent-Buy" which has a lot of Wardour in it.
The Alcotts were wonderful to me. I returned to art school , but in spite of Aunt Lolly trying to get me interested in various young men, especially one Ralph Allen who lived there most of the time. I was taken up with, or by, Tracy McCauley, a classmate of Rush's, who was in command of a torpedo destroyer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was from Evanston, Illinois, apparantly the heir of all the McCauleys. For the legend was, he never drew his pay. Anyway, I saw every play in New York, and ate at every place like Delmonico's and the old Waldorf. Whenever I wasn't with him I waited up for Uncle Van and Aunt Lolly who were always out themselves and would bring home guests, so I was always up and evening-dressed until about two. Then I went to went to school where I stood up for 8 hours a day. It was strenuous and I was pretty tired. In February I moved to the Kindergarden Students Residence on 40th St. and Lexington Ave. where I knew Helen Large and Beatrice Allen.That summer I went out to Lake Minnetonka to stay with Blance in their new house. Tracy came there and before going back to Washington and New York I went to visit him on a trumped up houseparty at his quarters at Great Lakes, his older sister chaperoning. It was sort of a climax but I could see it was not for me.I went back to art school and took illustrating as by that time as by that time I had some things published and wanted to illustrate.I won a scholarship, which was embarrassing because it was given by a Staten Island Roosevelt, a friend of my father's and I had to write and thank him without divulging my relationship and the un-necessity for help. It got to be l9l7 and war. My father went back on active duty at Medico-Clinurgical Hospital in Philadelphia. I graduated from school amd went there too.The first winter at 42nd and Chestnut St. in Dr. Hughes' house. Second winter, Delancey. By that time I was married.
NOTE:
Several poems by Dorothy Morgan Anderson are entered in this computer program under Phyllis Hoge, her daughter, because of lack of space here.
This poem was written by DAH and published in The New York Times Sept. 20, 1957.
"TORTOISE"
Box-like, withdrawn, his checkered
shell worn thin,
His wrinkled eyes from which
strange wisdom peers,
Lost now in time, since his dim
origin
In some far pool, he lives his end-
less years.
The seasons scarcely mark his
lingering;
The cool environment of gentle
snow,
The soft moist earth of each re-
turning spring,
THe summer solitude where berries
grow.
No pull of tide, no warmth of sun,
no distance
Call him to venture from this nar-
row space;
Sufficient this for limitless exist-
ence-
A still, calm life, a last abiding
place.
.
Children of DOROTHY ANDERSON and PHILIP HOGE are:
i. ELEANOR ANDERSON6 HOGE, b. March 12, 1919, Philadelphia PA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969); m. DWIGHT DICKINSON III, May 23, 1942, Oakland, CA (Source: "The Hoge, Nichols and Related Families - Biographical/Historical - A Sequential Arrangement of Genealogical Data", by William D. Nichols, 4578 Rain Park Drive, Fairview Park, OH 44126, Sept. 1969).
ii. PHYLLIS HOGE, b. November 15, 1926, Elizabeth NJ; m. (1) BACIL KIRTLEY; m. (2) JOHN CREIGHTON ROSE, October 6, 1951, Elizabeth NJ; m. (3) NOEL JAMES THOMPSON, June 10, 1964.
iii. DOROTHY LANGLEY HOGE, b. November 10, 1928, Elizabeth NJ; m. ROSS BRUCE KENZIE, June 4, 1953, Elizabeth NJ.
13. ELEANOR5 ANDERSON (FRANK4, WILLIAM ASTLEY COOPER3, WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born August 3, 1890. She married RUSH SOUTHGATE FAY, son of WILLIAM FAY.
Child of ELEANOR ANDERSON and RUSH FAY is:
i. FRANCIS ANDERSON6 FAY, b. 1919; m. NANCY JANE CRAIG, 1952.