Today we were contacted by Brad Ogden, a descendant of Amelia Augusta Petersdotter. He happened to "stumble into [our] site while researching the Anderson lines". He provided us additional information on Peter Moses Anderson and Clara Mather’s son Frederick M. Anderson.
According to the short history we have of Peter, Frederick M. Anderson was "a prominent physician". However, Brad pointed us to the Spring 2003 edition of the Greasewood Tablettes, a quarterly publication of the Department of Pathology at the University of Nevada. From this publication, we learned that Frederick was not only "a prominent physician", but helped found the University of Nevada School of Medicine while serving as chairman of the Board of Regents and as a member of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in the early 1960′s.
According to this article, Frederick "was a cowboy before working in a pharmacy in the small town of Ruth. According to his oral history…he passed the state pharmacy board examination, ‘worked one day as a pharmacist’ and then attended the University of Nevada at Reno. There, he came under the influence of Professor Peter Frandsen who persuaded Anderson to study medicine. After graduation in 1928, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University. Fred returned to the United States and medical school at Harvard where he graduated cum laude." Brad also pointed us to the Frederick M. Anderson Papers in the Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Based on the information in the article, we were able to find Frederick’s obituary in the Reno Gazette-Journal dated 30 Jan 2003. According to the obituary, Frederick was born on 17 Jan 1906 in Elko, Nevada. He married Anna Luckinbill in 1947 and passed away at home on 28 Jan 2003. He was "preceded in death by his son, Fred, also a doctor, his daughter, Suzanne, and his loving wife, Anne." He was "survived by his grandson Morgan T. Whipple of Charlotte, North Carolina, and many, many friends." A "private inurnment" was held in Carson City, Nevada where we believe his father Peter Moses died and is likely buried, although we do not have information to support this.
Until today, we had very little information on Peter Moses and Clara’s children. But thanks to Brad, we were able to obtain this additional information on Frederick. We look forward to including this information in the next update to our web site and thank Brad for pointing us to this information.
