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Correspondence, documents and printed materials of the family of Lewis Nostrand Anderson, Jr., 1904- (Columbia A.B. 1926). Included are letters to his grandfather, Samuel Cowdrey Anderson from Charles Francis Adams and Carl Schurz as well as printed material concerning the National Reform League in 1876 and letters to Samuel's father, Peter, from Louis Kossuth, and Peter's military appointment in 1828 signed by Governor DeWitt Clinton.
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Gift of Lewis N. Anderson, Jr., 1976 and 1985.
Source of acquisition--Anderson, Lewis N., Jr. Method of acquisition--Gift, 19 April 1976 and March 1985; Date of acquisition--04/19/76. Accession number--M-76-04-19.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processed 05/--/85.
Elbert Anderson was a New York cabinet maker who was joined in his business by his son, Elbert Jr. Other children of his were Peter, d.1803, A.B.1791, and James, who may have been the James who died in 1886. A son of Elbert Jr. was Henry James, 1799-1876, A.M.1818, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Columbia, 1825-50, became Trustee, 1851, Professor Emeritus, 1866, travelled extensively, and died in India (Who Was Who in America, 1607-1896). James' son Peter was associated with Alexander Turney Stewart, famous New York merchant. His son, Samuel Cowdrey, 18^9-1908, whose correspondence appears in this collection, was born in Manhattan, and the family moved to Brooklyn in I855, where he married and died in 1908. His son, Lewis Nostrand, M.D.1895, father of Lewis Nostrand, Jr., 1904-, A.B. 1926, died in 1939. Still a Brooklyn resident, Lewis N., Jr., is a landscape architect attended the Columbia School of Architecture in 1928 and has been serving the government of New York City since 1934, becoming the Cultural Architect in 1966.
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