Page 13 - John Anderson

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Chapter 1

Reveille, Midday and Sunset Salute

John Anderson developed an early love of music growing up in a
prominent family home with exposure to people of notable wealth,
talents and distinction. During his high school days in 1870, John
formed the Portland, Maine Cadets, a military drill team that became
a crack drill company under his leadership and in two short years won
the Maine championship against eleven other organized companies
throughout the state.

John had already formed purpose and direction in his youth and was
busy sounding reveille in his mind for all to hear as he awakened
early each day with thoughts of exploring, climbing, pioneering and
laying out trails in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine
for everyone’s benefit. His early drill resulted in excellent strength and
endurance in his youth and he was born to revel in physical outdoor
activities.

It was written in the Portland, Maine Daily Press (ca. 1911) – “As a
boy he was sincere, frank, courageous, tender with none of the ill-
conceived, shriveling pettiness of undeveloped youth, and he easily
became a leader among his schoolmates, a primacy which neither
time nor distance had lessened in the estimation of those whose
fortune it was to be intimate with him in the formative period of our
lives. I do not know that I ever heard him speak bitter or unkind
thoughts about another as an expression of a personal grievance, but
he could clearly comprehend and unmistakably show scorn for cant,
hypocrisy and unmanliness.

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