Transcribed from Goodspeed’s History of  Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketches of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, etc., etc. (Chicago and Nashville:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887), pp. 962-987.  See footnote below for on-line access.

Dr. E. C. ANDERSON, a prominent physician of Cleveland, was born October 7, 1854, in Michigan. He is the younger of two sons of Henry E. and L. (Wood) Anderson. The parents are natives of Michigan, where they reside now. The father is a merchant. The subject of our sketch, received the best of educational advantages from school, collage and private tutors. After reading medicine for two years he entered the Eclectic Medical Institution, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated in 1878. He has had extensive hospital experience in Philadelphia, afterward at Cincinnati. In 1880 he came to Cleveland, where he received an extensive and lucrative patronage. He has been United States examining surgeon for five years, and correspondent for some of the leading medical and literary journals of the country, and has contributed many valuable articles of interest to the profession. He is a Republican. In 1877 he married Miss Mary C. Legg, daughter of Col. M. W. Legg. Two children are the result of this union: Mary G. and Edwin M. Dr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Episcopal Church of which the Doctor is secretary of the vestry.

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