John C. Anderson

    John C. Anderson, agent for Western & Atlantic Railroad at Chattanooga, was born in Dalton, Ga., November 27, 1853, and is the son of John W. and J. S. (Chester) Anderson, natives, respectively, of Georgia and Tennessee. Our subject was reared and educated in his native city, came to Chattanooga in December, 1870, and entered the employ of the Western & Atlantic Railroad as clerk, where he has remained since. He is one of the organizers, and is president of the Empire Lumber Company, established in Chattanooga in 1882, secretary of the South Chattanooga Land Company, president of the Chattanooga Real Estate Company, and has been prominently identified with the real estate interests in the city. March 27, 1879, he wedded Miss Fannie I. Woodruff, of Griffin, Ga. He is a Democrat in politics, a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and is recognized as one of the enterprising and reliable business men and citizens of Chattanooga. He has been a resident of that city since 1870, with the exception of three years, from 1878 to 1881, when he was in Georgia in charge of large lumber operations for the Georgia Land & Lumber Company.

Goodspeed's History of Tennessee 1887