William H. Anderson, a lawyer of Lowell, Massachusetts, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire in 1836. He attended Yale and graduated in 1859. He then went on to study law in Massachusetts at the office of Morse & Stevens, passing his bar exam in 1862. He established himself in Lowell, Massachusetts and became one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the state. At the age of 66 he passed away on April 14, 1902. Among his clients was the Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company which had its headquarters in Lowell. The Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company was formed in 1883 as the result of a syndicate of telephone and telegraph investors in Lowell who purchased several small telephone companies in Minnesota, Arkansas, South Dakota, Texas, and Ohio. Among the investors were Charles J. Glidden, William A. Ingham, Alonzo A. Coburn, Loren N. Downs, and William H. Bent.
From the guide to the William H. Anderson papers, 1867-1907, (Baker Library, Harvard Business School)
