John Byers Anderson [SEP] educated at
Anderson, a missionary and trustee of Washington & Jefferson College from 1806 to 1831. His brother was the Rev. William Caldwell Anderson, president of Miami University from 1849 to 1854.
, and in 1880, John Byers Anderson also moved to Manhattan, where he would remain for the rest of his life. While in Manhattan, Anderson served as president of the First National Bank of Manhattan.
In the 1880s, Anderson also served as president of the board of trustees of the College of Emporia in Emporia, Kansas. In 1888, on the occasion of his 50th wedding anniversary, he established the Anderson Memorial Library at the college through a donation of his book collection.
John Byers Anderson died at