1869
Samuel Anderson, St. Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
Stated Clerk of West Iowa Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1869, page 90]

1870
Samuel Anderson, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
Stated Clerk of West Iowa Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1870, page 85]

1871
Samuel Anderson, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
Stated Clerk of West Iowa Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1871, page 85]

1872
Anderson, Samuel, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
Stated Clerk of West Iowa Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1872, page 119]

1873
Anderson, Samuel, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
Stated Clerk of West Iowa Presbytery
Commissioner to General Assembly in Huntsville, Alabama, May 15-23, 1873.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1873, pages 5 & 96]

1874
Anderson, Samuel, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
Stated Clerk of West Iowa Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1874, page 95]

1875
Anderson, Saml., Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1875, page 87]

1876
Anderson, Saml., Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1876, page 97]

1877
Anderson, Samuel, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1877, page 93]

1878
Anderson, Samuel, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1878, page 101]

1879
Anderson, Samuel, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1879, page 97]

1880
Anderson, Samuel, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1880, page 125]

1881
Anderson, Samuel, Stated Clerk, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1881, page 96]

1882
Anderson, Samuel, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1882, page 126]

1883
Anderson, Samuel, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1883, page 135]

1884
Anderson, Samuel, Panora, Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1884, page 124]

1885
Anderson, S. D., Panora. Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1885, page 139]

1886
Anderson, S. D., Panora. Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1886, page 168]

1887
Anderson, S. D., Panora. Iowa
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1887, page 165]

1888
Anderson, S. D., Santa Paula, Cal.
Minister - West Iowa Presbytery - Iowa Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1888, page 177]

1889
Not in list and not in mortuary list.

Samuel D. Anderson, son of John and Elizabeth C. (Roe) Anderson, was born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, May 4, 1830. He moved with his parents to Richland county, Ohio, when he was quite small, and resided there until the spring of 1842, when they moved to Fulton county, Illinois, where they remained one year, and then moved to Wapello county, Iowa, where they remained until 1852. They then moved to Guthrie county, and Samuel going to Kentucky, spent two years in school. In 1854, he came to Guthrie county, where he joined his family. He was married in August, 1854, to Miss Nancy J. McClaran, daughter of Samuel McClaran. They had one child--Mary Elizabeth--born in 1855, died in 1858. In 1869, they adopted a little girl, Elizabeth J., who died in May 1881. In 1870, they adopted a boy, Thomas. Mr. Anderson is a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, being ordained in 1860 by the Presbytery of West Iowa. He is also a member of the Masonic lodge, No. 121, at Panora, having been initiated in 1860.
[Source: History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa. Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884, page 481.]

Samuel D. Anderson was born in the State of Pennsylvania, May 4, 1830, the son of John and Elizabeth C. (Roe) Anderson, both natives of Ohio. They had a family of nine children, eight of whom are living, Samuel D. being the oldest. When he was a boy the family removed to Iowa. He attended the public schools of that place and finished his education at a college at Princeton, Kentucky. After reaching the years of maturity, his first work was in the milling business. He soon afterward turned his attention to theology, and became a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was pastor of a charge. The church prospered under his ministry for a number of years, and he has ever been a worthy Christian man. The greater part of his life, however, has been spent on a farm.

Mr. Anderson was married in 1854, to Miss Nancy J. McClaran, a native of Ohio, who removed to Iowa when quite young. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson had one child, Mary Elizabeth, born September 24, 1855, and died October 15, 1858. Having no family of their own left, they adopted a little girl, Elizabeth Jane Hill, taking their own name, and a boy, Thomas Thurman. The former, at the age of twelve and a half years, sickened and died. The latter, Thomas Anderson, is still with them, and is now twenty-five years of age.

Mr. Anderson is the owner of a beautiful home in the prosperous town of Santa Paula; and here his cozy home, like its possessor, has an unassuming appearance; but its neatness and thrift and the flowers in the well-kept yard, all indicate peace and contentment - a fitting place in which to pass the closing days of a well-spent life. Mr. Anderson and his son are farming ninety acres of land, seventy acres of which they devote to beans, a crop for which the soil of this country is so well adapted. Mr. Anderson has been a Republican since the formation of that party. He was made a Mason in 1860, and was one of the charter members of Santa Paula Lodge, No. 291.
[Source: Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura, California. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, page 333 ]