Page 28 - John Anderson

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From the Portland (Maine) Daily Press.

The news of the sudden death of Mr. John Anderson, at his

winter home in Ormond, Florida, comes as a sad blow to the
community at large and a genuine and heartfelt sorrow to his

personal friends. What he has accomplished in his busy and useful
life is known to all. What he did to benefit his fellowman is known to
but few outside of those who were cheered and comforted by his

ready and helpful interest. I feel it in my heart, as one of his close
friends, to pay tribute to his memory as a genuine man among men. I

can truly say that no one who was deserving ever applied to him for
help without an immediate and hearty response, not in words alone,

but in deeds of real kindness. Always burdened with work enough of
his own, he was never too busy to extend ready and prompt help to

others, and never did he proclaim his good deeds from the housetop;
indeed, it was most distasteful to him to be lauded with praise for

any act that he performed.
Born with a right to be aristocratic, he was the most democratic

of men, and never failed to recognize worth in any man, no matter what
his station, provided he did the best that was in him. He hated sham

in any form and had none in his make-up. He was a hearty,
wholesome and unusually clean-minded man, strong as steel in his

friendship, loyal (yes, that is the word, loyal) to those who deserved it.
His place is not easily filled in the world, and never can be in the

hearts of his friends. "Take him for all and all, he was a man,"
and he really was one of nature's noblemen. F. W. T.

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