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"Roof-Fix carried us to Elyria" wrote Sherwood Anderson's wife, Cornelia Lane, of the product her husband started a company to sell. Advertisement for the Anderson Manufacturing Co., a company owned by Sherwood Anderson from 1907 to 1913, almost a decade before he became a well-known author
Sherwood Anderson (born September 13, 1876, Camden, Ohio, U.S.—died March 8, 1941, Colon, Panama) was an author who strongly influenced American writing between World Wars I and II, particularly the technique of the short story.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Who Is Sherwood Anderson's Wife? His wife is Eleanor Copenhaver (5 July 1933 - 8 March 1941) ( his death), Elizabeth Prall (5 April 1924 - 1 February 1932) ( divorced), Tennessee Mitchell (31 July 1916 - 4 April 1924) ( divorced), Cornelia Lane (16 May 1904 - 27 July 1916) ( divorced) ( 3 children)
Dec 22, 2021 · In 1904 he married Cornelia Lane, with whom he eventually had three children. After several mostly unsuccessful attempts at a business career, Anderson suffered what historians have since described as a nervous breakdown, likely brought on by marital and financial problems.
Mar 27, 2014 · After military service during the Spanish-American War he completed his high-school education at Wittenberg Academy in Springfield, Ohio; immediately thereafter he took an advertising job in Chicago in 1900, marrying his first wife, Cornelia Lane, in 1904.
In 1904, he married the first of his four wives, the daughter of a successful businessman. He himself became a successful businessman, all the while dreaming of becoming a writer. In November 1912, he left his home one day and was not seen for four days, turning up in a clear stage of shock, having suffered a mental breakdown.
Jun 11, 2018 · ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. A business man turned writer, Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876–March 8 1941) was called by H. L. Mencken, "America's most distinctive novelist." Anderson grew up in a series of Ohio towns, the second of seven children of an unsuccessful harness maker and itinerant house painter and a long-suffering mother.
