Background
Anderson, John F. was born on March 14, 1873 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Son of John Kerwin and Lucy Ella (Hundley) Anderson.
Anderson, John F. was born on March 14, 1873 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. Son of John Kerwin and Lucy Ella (Hundley) Anderson.
Educated in public schools, Fredericksburg, Locustdale, Bowling Green, Virginia, and Washington. Doctor of Medicine University of Virginia, 1896. Student Pathologische Institut, Vienna.
Thompson Yates laboratories, Liverpool, England, and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1899-1901.
Assistant surgeon United States.P.H. and Marine Hospital Service, 1898. Passed assistant surgeon, 1903. On epidemic duty in connection with yellow fever, 1898.
Quarantine officer Dry Tortugas, 1898-1899.
Immigrant inspector, Ellis Island. 1899; sanitary observer at Glasgow, Oporto and Liverpool, 1899-1900.
Sanitary attache United States consulates-general, Barcelona, Marseilles, Vienna, London and Liverpool 1899-1901. Assistant director Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, 1902-1909. director 1909-1916.
Director research and biological laboratories, East. R. Squibb & Sons, 1916, also vice president
Vice-president Chairman of the Board New Brunswick Savings Institute.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists (past president), Society American Bacteriology, Society Experimental Medicine and Biology, American Medical Association, American Public Health Association (past president), Association American Physicians, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Lucy Temple Hundley, November 6, 1899. Children: John Layton (deceased), Richard Hundley, Beverley Whiting (deceased).