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Show Physician Gave Up Work to Become Wood Engraver The first engraver of wood in America, Amer-ica, Alexander Anderson, was born in New York 144 years ago. His father was a Scotchman, the publisher of a ! newspaper. Anderson first became a physician, but in 17S9, after having , performed many deeds of heroism J lighting the yellow fever epidemic of j that year, he abandoned medicine and made engraving his life profession. He i (lied in Jersey City at the age of ninety-four, and a vast number of hooks illustrated by Anderson vouch for the : ability and industry of the pioneer in the art of wood engraving in the new world. |