Background
Anderson was born at “” in Albemarle County, Virginia to Edmund Anderson and Jane Meriwether Lewis, the sister of Meriwether Lewis.
Anderson was born at “” in Albemarle County, Virginia to Edmund Anderson and Jane Meriwether Lewis, the sister of Meriwether Lewis.
University of Virginia. Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
He gradauted from the University of Virginia and went on to get a degree in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After qualifying as a physician he moved to Mississippi to begin his practice and take up farming. His prominence in Albemarle county resulted in his election to the Virginia Legislature in 1861.
Anderson died several months after his election in 1862.
Anderson married Lucy Sydnor Harper (1811–1885) in 1831. The daughter of Charles and Lucy Smither Harper.
The couple had five children including Meriwether Lewis Anderson, Junior who was killed at the Battle of Fisher"s Hill in 1864. The estate was acquired in 1730 by his great-grandfather Colonel
Robert Lewis. Anderson is responsible for the current house which stands at today.