WALTER H. ANDERSON, the junior member of the well-known law firm at Harriman of Scott, Chandler & Anderson, has been in practice at Harriman since 1910, and has already attained recognition as one of the rising young attorneys of the East Tennessee bar. Mr. Anderson educated himself, and while growing up contributed to the support of other members of the family, so that he is in every sense of the word a self-made man.
Walter H. Anderson was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, May 29, 1886, a son of Luke and Jane (Young) Anderson. The paternal grandfather was Jacob Anderson, a native of Whitley County, Kentucky, a farmer by occupation, and during the war was a member of the home guards. The maternal grandfather was James Young, born in Wayne County, Kentucky, and for many years a school teacher and farmer. Luke Anderson was born in Whitley County, Kentucky, June 8, 1853, and his wife was born in the same county in 1854. Both are still living, and during the earlier years the father followed the vocation of farming. Latterly he has been in the coal mining industry. They are both members of the Baptist Church, and he is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. The six children in the family are mentioned as follows: John Marion, of Kentucky, Mary D., wife of J. L. Wilson of Chattanooga; Walter H.; Benjamin H., Scott County, Tennessee; Edna, wife of Clarence Ramsey of Kentucky; and Eva, unmarried and living at home.
Walter H. Anderson attended the public schools of Scott County, Tennessee, afterwards had a course in the Williamsburg Institute in Kentucky, and in 1902, took a business course in the Knoxville Business College. For several years he was employed in clerical and other lines of work and in that way obtained the means to put him through law school. In 1908 he graduated in law from the Cumberland University at Lebanon, and started to practice in Scott County, Tennessee. In 1910 he moved to Harriman, and there joined forces with Mr. J. W. Scott, one of the best known lawyers of East Tennessee.
On November 11, 1905, Mr. Anderson married Miss Emma Bowling, a daughter of William Bowling, who was born in Virginia, and came to Tennessee in 1866. He had previously served as a soldier in the Confederate Army, and was twice captured, being confined in the Federal Prison in Ohio for a time, and for a time in New Jersey. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are: Stephen Arnold Douglas, aged seven; Gus Carr, aged four; and Walter J. Jr., born in 1913. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Methodist Church South. Fraternally Mr. Anderson is affiliated with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Knights of Pythias and the Masons, being past master of John Frizzell Lodge No. 592,
A. F. & A. M., in Scott County. In politics he is Republican, but gives all his time to his legal profession, in which he is winning a worthy success.
Source: Hale, Will T, and Dixon L. Merritt. A History of Tennessee and Tennesseans: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Company, 1913. Volume 5.
