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Battle of Lexington State Historic Site - Featured Biography - Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites, MoDNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Oliver Anderson was born Feb. 15, 1794, in Nicholasville, Ky. He was born into a wealthy and business-minded family, and by the age of 16 or 17, had already established an extensive trade with New Orleans by means of flat boats, returning to Kentucky on foot. |
 | | Anderson quickly moved through the ranks, becoming a lieutenant in 1813, a captain in 1815, a major in 1819, and finally a lieutenant colonel in 1820. |
 | | Anderson was a native of Jessamine County, where he principally resided until he was near sixty years of age, and where he was well-known and highly esteemed as a man of probity, and recognized as possess of those qualities which give a man influence with the better class [sic] of his fellow citizens. |
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