ELBERT ELLERY ANDERSON
Date: 1848
Location: Abu Simbel, façade
Recording:
RDK 382
RDK 382
Biographical
details, and bibliography:
Lawyer, soldier, political economist and
publicist, Mr. E. Ellery Anderson has taken a prominent part in mol ding and directing
opinion and action on the great public questions that have agitated the
American people in the closing years of the nineteenth century. He is a
thorough New Yorker, born in this city October 31, 1833, and his scholastic
temperament comes to him as an inheritance from his father, who was a
distinguished educator and scientist.
Professor Henry J. Anderson, M.D., LL. D., the
father, was born in 1799. He was graduated from Columbia
College in 1818, and from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons in 1823,
two years later becoming Professor of Mathematics, Analytical and Physical
Astronomy in Columbia
College. For years he
held that position, and then resigned on account of his wife’s health and
travelled in Europe. While abroad he became
identified with the Roman Catholic Church, and on his return to New York gave much time
to the promotion of the interests of that ecclesiastical body. He was president
of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and was on the official boards of other
church organizations. In 1851, he was elected a trustee of Columbia College,
and in 1866 was made emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. When the
American Scientific Expedition went to explore the level of the Dead Sea, Professor Anderson accompanied the party and
conducted some interesting investigations. In 1875, he went to India to explore the Himalayas
for ethnological and philosophical discoveries. While there, he was stricken
with disease and died in October of that year.
Mr. Anderson travelled in Europe in 1843 with
his father, and returning to his studies was
graduated from Harvard
College in 1852. He was
admitted to the bar in 1854 and has sedulously applied himself to the practice
of his profession ever since. He has had the management of many trust estates
and has been engaged upon very celebrated cases. In 1868 , he entered into
partnership with Frederick H. Man, under the firm name of Anderson & Man.
The Partners have handled much litigation with railroads, and one of their
most important cases was that in which they recovered some two million dollars
intrest due on bonds of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad. In 1862, Mr. Anderson went to the front as a Major
in a regiment of New York
volunteers and served until he was captured and returned home under parole of
Stonewall Jackson. Although a strong Democrat, he joined in the movement
against Tweed in 1871, and did good work in
helping to overthrow the ring. As a Tammany, he was for several years chairman
of the Eleventh District, but in 1879, in company with
Abram S. Hewitt, William C. Whitney, Edward Cooper and others, he withdrew from
that organization and became one of the founders of the Country Democracy,
being for a long time chairman of the general committee. Although he has given
considerable time to politics, he has never permitted his name to be used for
any elective public office. He has, however, been a school trustee, and in 1896
was appointed a member of the Board of Education. He has also served on the Rapid Transit Commission, the Croton
Aqueduct Commission and the Elevated Railroad Commission. In 1887, President
Cleveland appointed him on the commission to investigate the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific railroads, and he prepared the majority report of the commission. He was appointed one
of the directors of the Union Pacific
Railway Company on behalf of the Government, and in 1893 was appointed by the United States Court
one of the receivers of that corporation. I is as an advocate of tariff reform
in recent years that Mr. Anderson has made himself best known, and has exercised the widest and
strongest influence. His services to the Democratic party on that issue in the
Presidential campaign of 1892 were exceedingly valuable. He was president of
the Reform Club and chairman of the Tariff Reform Committee, and wrote many
papers and made many addresses. In the
campaign of 1896, he was similarly active for the cause of sound money. Mr. Anderson married Augusta Chauncey,
aand lives in West Thirty-eighth
Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan,
Democratic, University, Reform, Whist and other clubs, and of the Bar
Association.
PROMINENT FAMILIES OF NEW YORK, Being an
account in Biographical form of individuals and families distinguished as
representatives of the social, professional and civic life of New York City. The Historical Company, Weeks,
Lyman Horace. Ed. New York .1897. p. 19; Roger O. De
Keersmaecker, Travellers’ Graffiti from the Egypt and the Sudan, VIII, Elkab -
Themple of Amenophis III, Mortsel (Antwerp) Belgium 2010, p. 19, 20, 21, 22.
Book of the Annual reunion and dinner of the
Old Guard Association. Twelfth Regiment, N.G.S, NY Saturday, April 21st,
1894, at the Manhattan Athletic Club, Madison Avenue and 45th
Street, New York City.
With thanks of Jim Gandy, Assistant Librarian /
Archivist. NY State
Military Museum.
.
RDK 1007
Date: 1847
Location: Kumma
Temple, PM VII. NUBIA, The Deserts and Outside Egypt, Oxford
1851, p. 146 KUMMA, (29), Room VI G.
Recording:
RDK 1007.
Note: The
above photograph is almost undeniable also a graffito made by Elbert Ellery
Anderson .
See Roger De Keersmaecker, The Temples
of Semna and Kumma, 2003, Mortsel (Antwerp),
p. 42.
