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REUBEN J. ANDERSON was
born in Smithfield, Madison County, New York; he passed his youth and
early manhood like most boys, and in the spring of 1853 came by water to
California. He landed at San Francisco May 5, 1853, and followed mining
for three years. He subsequently purchased 160 acres of land five miles
from San Jose, and here farmed for two years. He then sold out and
bought a place a mile west of Haywards, and remained on it until 1856,
when he removed to San Bernardino County. He bought land near town, on
which he kept stock. In the winter of 1862 he lost heavily by the high
waters which flooded the district. In 1870 he bought seventy-eight acres
where he now lives, two and one-half miles east of San Bernardino. After
being washed out, however, in 1862, he followed teaming in Arizona,
Utah, Montana and Idaho, for a period of ten years. He lived for several
years in San Bernardino, where he owned several lots and was a partner
in a large saw-mill, which was destroyed by fire in 1872. In March,
1861, he married Miss Louisa Button, daughter of M. E. Button, one of
the pioneers of this county, by whom he had one child: Mariette. His
wife died in 1868, and Mr. Anderson was again married October 4, 1869,
to Miss Lizzie Mathis, a native of Iowa. She died August 4, 1871, and on
May 2, 1872, Mr. Anderson married her sister, Elvira Mathis, who was
born at Payson, Utah, a daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Dawdle) Mathis,
natives of Lawrence County, Alabama. By this latter marriage he has six
children, four boys and two girls: Francis Marion, Annie Louise, William
Wesley, Clarence James, Ernest Ingersoll and Lizzie.
Source: Anonymous. An Illustrated history of southern California: embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of their prospects, also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1890, p. 562. |
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