Anderson family

Karl E. Anderson (1867-1946) and his wife, Emma Jennie Wardle Anderson (1878-1963), were education missionaries with the Methodist Episcopal Church in India from 1899 to 1932. Educated at Cornell College (M.A., 1899) in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, He was recruited as a missionary by Bishop James Mills Thoburn. Karl Anderson was appointed to India in June 1899 and sailed on October 21, 1899. He worked first in Madras (1899-1901) and later in Bangalore (1901-1909). On October 23, 1903 he married Emma Jennie Wardle.

In January 1909 Anderson returned to the United States on furlough and took a leave of absence from missionary work. He was active in the Upper Iowa and Northwest Iowa Conferences, but was later reappointed to India on November 19, 1913 to work in Kolar, Bangalore, and Bidar. From 1926 to 1930 he served as District Superintendent for Bidar. He retired June 1, 1932, and died at Glendale, California on September 5, 1946.

Emma Jennie Wardle Anderson was educated at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa (1903), and at the Chicago Training School. Before becoming a missionary, she taught music at the Chicago Training School from 1901 to 1902. She was first appointed to the India field in April of 1903 and sailed to India on September 19, 1903. In that year she married Karl Anderson. She worked with her husband in Kolar, Bangalore, and Bidar until their retirement in 1932.

Dorothea Anderson Kemper, missionary and educator, was the daughter of Karl and Emma Anderson. She served as a short-term educational missionary in southern India. She later taught religious education in the San Francisco Theological Seminary and in the California public schools.