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History of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania : including its early settlement..
Chicago : A. Warner Co., 1889
Cushing, Thomas, 1821.
Pg. 455, HENRY L. ANDERSON, farmer, P. O. Leetsdale, was born Sept. 2, 1834, in the Sixth Ward, Pittsburgh, son of JAMES ANDERSON, a native of Carlisle, Pa., and of old Scotch Protestant stock. The ancestors had to flee from Scotland to Ireland. The paternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the Pa. line troops. He lived in Chester Co., Pa.; was originally in the stone business in Allegheny, and built the old U. S. Bank. In 1792 the father of HENRY L. was in the brick business on ANDERSON St., and later in the iron business. He was a manager of the Western Pa. Hospital, one of the board of directors of the house of refuge, now the reform school, and was inspector of the penitentiary until his death; he died March 11, 1861, age 77. Politically he was a republican. He was married to ANNA MILLER, the daughter of old settlers, and by her had three children: WILLIAM, ISABELLA and HENRY L. The last named, who was educated in Allegheny and at Franklin College, Chambersburg, Pa., followed bookkeeping, and subsequently enlisted in Co. K of 12th P. V., and was later in detached service. After the war he again engaged in bookkeeping, and subsequently embarked in in the oil business. Of late years he has been a farmer, and since 1872 has owned a farm in Sewickley Twp. He was married to MAGGIE A. BROWN, and they have three children: HARRY M., ALMA E. and LOUISE A. Politically MR. ANDERSON is a republican, and has filled various township offices; he is a member of A. F. & A. M. and A. O. U. W.
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