Mrs. G. W. Anderson
1819–1895

Introduction

Born: Jan­ua­ry 30, 1819, Pa­ris, France.

Died: Oc­to­ber 13, 1895, Rose­mont, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Buried: Low­er Me­ri­on Bap­tist Church Ce­me­te­ry, Bryn Mawr, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Pseudonym: L. M. N.

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Biography

Maria was the daugh­ter of Tho­mas F. Hill of Exe­ter, Eng­land; wife of George W. An­der­son, pro­fess­or at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lew­is­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia (mar­ried 1847); and grand­mo­ther of ar­my of­fi­cer Tas­ker How­ard Bliss, one of the co-sig­na­tor­ies of the Treaty of Ver­sailles that end­ed World War I.

She was bap­tized in 1845 in Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia, by Will­iam Shad­rack, pas­tor of the Grant Street Bap­tist Church there.

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