Biographical Sketch of Hon. Isaac ANDERSON (1893); Chester County, PA

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Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- 
vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley 
and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- 
delphia, PA, 1893, page 622.

"HON. ISAAC ANDERSON, a prominent Jeffersonian democrat, and member of Con- 
gress form 1803 to 1807, was a son of Capt. Patrick and Elizabeth (Morris) 
Anderson, and was born in Chester county, November 23, 1760.  His father was the 
first child born of European parents in Charlestown township, and served with 
distinction in the revolutionary war.  He opposed the abolition of slavery, and 
served as a member of the legislature from 1778 to 1781.

"Isaac Anderson took part in the revolutionary war, served as a justice of the 
peace, and was one of the first Methodists of Pennsylvania.  In 1802 he was 
elected to the assembly, and the next year was sent to Congress, in which he 
served until 1807.  He was a presidential elector in 1816, and died October 27, 
1838.  He was six feet four inches high, and married Mary Lane, by whom he had 
eleven children."