Rev. George Washington Anderson was born on May 15, 1816, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

He was a Baptist clergyman. He was educated at Madison (now Colgate) University (B.A., 1844), Hamilton Theological Seminary (1846), and the University of Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) (D.D., 1869). He was ordained in 1854 and held pastorates at Duchess County, New York (1854–58); Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1858–64); and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1850s?). Anderson wrote several works on Baptists and missions and contributed to the Baptist Quarterly, edited the Christian Chronicle, and was literary editor of the American Baptist Publication Society.

In 1847, he married Maria Frances Hill (1819-1895). He died on July 3, 1903, in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.

Isabelle T. Anderson was born in Conifer, Colorado in 1905. She graduated from University of Colorado in 1927 with an AB in English after which she was an assistant in the School of Medicine Library at the University of Colorado. In 1930, she received her BS Library Science from the University of Illinois.

She served in many capacities as a medical librarian. From 1930-1947 she was the Ramsey County Medical Society librarian in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was Director of University of Utah Medical School Library from 1947-1956. She was a founding member of the Colorado Council of Medical Librarians in 1957. From 1956-1960 she was Library Director of the Denver Medical Society. She was then employed at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, first as Reference librarian and then Circulation Department, administering a large inter-library loan program. She was an associate of Dr. Estelle Brodman, at Washington University, School of Medicine Library, St. Louis, MO, where she went in 1961 to work again as assistant librarian. She was Librarian of the Medical and Neurological Sciences Library at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ from 1965 to 1970.

She was associated with the Medical Library Association from 1931 until her death, serving on several committees, including the committee for the Handbook of Medical Library Practice and Standards for Medical Librarianship. She was president in 1958/59. She also lectured at library schools such as at the University of Minnesota, the University of Denver, Catholic University, Washington, and the College of St. Catherine.

James Anderson was born on July 5, 1834, in Kenmore, Perthshire, Scotland.

He was a Presbyterian minister. He was educated at the University of St. Andrews and ordained in 1865 by the Presbytery of Nairn. In 1866, he was inducted as minister at Wallace and Pugwash, Nova Scotia. In 1873, Anderson was called from there to St. James Church, Newcastle, New Brunswick, which had about 180 families in the congregation and over 200 communicants. In the summer of 1875, he spent three months in Scotland in company with his wife, who was ill and thought to be dying. He resumed his ministry in the fall and carried on until October 1879. He then resigned and returned to his homeland. He was the minister of Alvie parish church in Inverness-shire from 1880 until his retirement a few years before his death.

In 1865, he married Barbara Hay Grant (1833–1883), and in 1888, he remarried Jessie Munro (1860-1952). He died on July 14, 1913, in Alvie, Inverness-shire, Scotland.

Sir John Anderson was born on January 23, 1858, in Gartly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish colonial administrator. He graduated from Aberdeen University (M.A.) and entered the Colonial Office as a second-class clerk. In 1887, he was Bacon Scholar of Gray's Inn and the following year, he was the Inns of Court student. Anderson was appointed as the private secretary to Sir Robert Meade, Permanent Under-Secretary of the State for the Colonies, and in 1892, he served as the British Agent for Bering Sea Arbitration. From 1883 to 1897, he edited the Colonial Office List and was appointed as the principal clerk. In 1899, he was dispatched to Gibraltar, and the same year, he returned to London, where he remained until 1901. In 1902, he acted as the secretary to the Colonial Conference. In 1903, he received thanks from the Canadian Government and the Confederation medal for services rendered in connection with the Alaska Boundary question and other matters. In 1904, Anderson was appointed Governor of Straits Settlements, where he served till 1911. In 1916, he became Governor of British Ceylon. In Ceylon, he played an important role in settling many problems and riots that started in 1915 and were suppressed harshly by the British. He was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1898 and a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) in 1901. In 1906, he was awarded an LL.D. from his former alma mater.

He suddenly fell ill and died on March 24, 1918, in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

Composer Leroy Anderson’s Swedish parents recognized his musical ability at an early age – he wrote his first composition at the age of 12 -- and enrolled him at the New England Conservatory of Music. Having been born and grown up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University, receiving his B.A. in 1929 (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.A in music in 1930. He began work for a Ph.D. at Harvard in German and Scandinavian languages, intending to become a teacher of languages (he was fluent in more than 9), a career he thought would be more secure than that of a musician. While pursuing his studies, he worked as a church organist and choirmaster as well as the leader of the Harvard Band in which he played the trombone, one of several instruments he played. He had caught the attention of Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and in 1938 the Pops first played one of his compositions, Jazz Pizzicata. When World War II intervened and he married Eleanor Jane Firke in 1942 just before shipping off to Iceland for the U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps as a translator and interpreter (Icelandic was one of his many languages). The following year he was sent to officer’s candidate school, and in 1945 he was reassigned to the Pentagon as chief of the Scandinavian Desk of Military Intelligence. He and his wife and new baby daughter moved to Arlington, Virginia; with the end of the war, in 1946 they moved to New York City, then later to Woodbury, Connecticut, where he spent the rest of his life at his “Grassy Hill” property. Having scored his first hit in 1951 with “Blue Tango,” he landed a contract with Decca Records; his works were a big commercial success throughout the 1950s. From 1946 to 1975, he conducted more than 70 concerts. In 1972, the Boston Pops devoted a concert to him as a tribute. For his contribution to the recording business, he has a “star” on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 1988. The Harvard Band named its new headquarters after him in 1995: the Leroy Anderson Band Center. The town of Cambridge named a square after him in 2003.

Maureen Anderson, a close personal friend of John Schreiber, was for forty years the Administrative Assistant at the McGill School of Architecture.

Reid Anderson was born on October 15, 1970.

He is a bassist and composer from Minnesota. He is a member of The Bad Plus with drummer Dave King, saxophonist Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. The original lineup of The Bad Plus first played together in 1989 and formally established the band in 2000. Anderson attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music.