ANDERSON, William Franklin, Ameri can eler an : b. W. Va. 22 April 1860. He studied at West Virginia tlni ersity, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity, 1884; Drew Theological Seminary, 1887; A.M. New York University 1898. He en tered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal joining he New York Conference to 1887. From to 1908 he was corresponding secretary of the Board of Education of his In 1908 he was elected bishop and is now resident bishop of Cincinnati. He is the author of 'The Compulsion of Love' (1903) ; editor The Challenge of Today (1915). He aL;o edited the magazine The Christian Student 1904-08.
Ind, city and of Madison • County; on the White River, 36 miles northeast of Indianapolis on the New York Central Lines, Pennsylvania Lines and C. I. Railway. It is also the headquarters of the Union Traction System, one of the most extensive systems of electric traction lines in the middle west. The power-house, costing $1,000,000, is the largest in the State, generating the power which carries cars to every im portant city in northern and central Indiana. There is also a belt railway for factory service.
The city of Anderson lies in the centre of a rich agricultural region and is also an im portant manufacturing centre. Here was es tablished one of the first and largest tin plate mills, introducing that industry into the United States. One hundred and fifteen factories are engaged in industrial enterprises where nearly every commodity known to trade is made. Chief among these are wire fence, steel nails, oil and gas engines, street paper boxes, bottles, silos, aero planes, wind pumps, steel fence posts, magnetos and for vacuum rubber tires bed motor trucks, enamel encaustic tiles, The United States census of 1914 recorded 114 manufacturing es tablishments of factory grade, employing 4,613 persons, of whom 3,905 were wage earners, re» ceiving a total of annually in wages.
The capital employed was and the early output was valued at of this, was added by Natural gas was discovered in 1887, and while the flow has diminished to some extedt it is still suf ficient in supply for heating and small manu facturing purposes.
The city has eight banking institutions, with a capitalization of over $700,000, and deposits of three daily papers; an excellent fire and owns and operates its own water works and electric light and power de partment. The city debt has been paid off by these Electric power can be furnished at one and one-quarter cents per k. w. and light at one and three-quarter cents per k. w. Among the prominent buildings are the court house, erected in 1882 at a cost of $200,000, the government building for postal service, a Carnegie library, an orphans' home, a Y. M. C. A. constructed at a cost of $275,000. The pre historic Mounds Park is located near Ander son, which has several smaller parks and play grounds. There is an excellent school system with 13 public schools and one parochial, at tended by over 6,000 pupils, and a fine new Manual Training High School, costing $380,000, with 700 pupils. Nearly all religious denomina tions are represented and well housed.
The first settlement was in 1822, when, as the home of the Delaware Indians, it was known as Anderson's Town, the chief of the Delaware tribe being known as •Kik-tha-we-nund, or, Anderson.* Anderson's Town became a county seat in 1827. The name was changed to Ander son by act of the legislature in 1838, and in 1865 the city was incorporated. The city government is vested in a mayor elected every four years, a council from three wards, clerk, city comptroller and board of works. The value of taxable property is $11,000,000. Pop. (1910) 22,476; (1915) 30,000.