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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Anderson -- Norway to Lowell, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts
PEDER ANDERSON
BORN
IN BERGEN, NORWAY.
AUG. 14, 1810,
ARRIVED
IN THIS COUNTRY.
AUG. 7, 1830,
DIED IN LOWELL.
JULY  27, 1874.

A TRUE FRIEND OF HIS NATIVE
AND OF HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY.

MARTHA FISHER
WIFE OF
PEDER ANDERSON
BORN IN
LANCASTER, MASS.
AUG. 20, 1819.
DIED IN LOWELL.
MAR. 1, 1905.

ANNA F. ANDERSON
DAUGHTER OF
PEDER AND MARTHA
ANDERSON
BORN JAN. 13, 1849
DIED FEB. 5, 1921
_______

ELIZABETH  W. ANDERSON
DAUGHTER OF
PEDER AND MARTHA
ANDERSON
BORN JAN. 26, 1850
DIED AUG. 3, 1933

Additional information:
Per Lowell Vital records:  Fisher, Martha, of Lancaster, and Peter Anderson, int. [intention to marry] Oct. 23, 1846 in Lowell.

Per Lowell City Directory for 1870:  Anderson Peter, agent and
treasurer at Baldwin M. C.* home at 31 Anne Street.
* A mill was erected for the manufacture of worsted yarn and carpets in 1841, and a company was afterwards organized as the Baldwin Manufacturing Company, which was very successfully operated for several years, until near the close of the war, when, with many similar companies, they failed.