The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anders, Thomas Jefferson

ANDERS, Thomas Jefferson, jurist, was born in Bloomville, Ohio, April 4, 1838. He was graduated at the University of Michigan LL.B. 1861; engaged in teaching school in the state of Wisconsin, and removed to Montana in 1864. He practised law in the territory 1864-71, and at Walla Walla, Washington, 1871-88. He became judge of the supreme court at the first state election in 1889, and was re-elected in 1898. He married, Dec. 10, 1873, Viola Hull, of Walla Walla.