Dr. Wendell A. Anderson
                           JoHN P. BIRD

    Dr. Wendell A. Anderson and his wife, Susan M. Small, were born
in the same year, 1840, and in the same village, Gray, sixteen miles
from Portland, Maine. He came of distinguished lineage, the lines
reaching back to the beginnings of New England. His father, Dr.
Abram Wendell Anderson, was a physician and surgeon well and widely
known in that section of the State, and his mother was a Waterman,


DR. WENDELL A. ANDEiRSION


a family then and still prominent in Portland. He was the youngest of
six children.
    As a rule genealogies are not of much interest except to relatives;
but under these circumstances some facts of that nature may be of in-
terest to you. Among the family connections were Governor Winthrop
and three other colonial governors, Mary Corwin, Charlotte Cushman,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, President Dwight of Yale, and many others.
His great, great grandfather was the Rev. Thomas Smith, a graduate
of Harvard, and the first regular ordained minister in Portland, then
   Note: This paper was read by Mr. Bird on the occasion of the dedication of
the Manse donated by the sons of Dr. Anderson to the First Congregational
Church, October, 1929.
   This residence, at 924 Cass Street, was for many years the home of Dr.
Anderson.
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