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and the dear lady was beside herself until she knew the facts a few moments
later.
At one time, in oil field garb and in need of a shave, he panhandled
or begged in front of the Texas State Hotel and was very promptly told by
another panhandler to get over on his own side of the street.
He used to enjoy playing jokes on his nephews, including such things
as various types of jacks-in-the-box, plate lifters (with a bulb and tube),
noise--rakers, and many others. He enjoyed telling jokes, particularly so
if they were at his own expense. He loved his nephews very much and took
them riding at least once a week, usually on tnday.
;ry he never married is a mystery. Relatives said he was disappointed
in love early in his adult life and from that point on he never nad a serious
love affair. He liked the ladies but preferred widows, feeling that they were
somewhat more immune to marriage than unmarried women and therefore "safer."
In personality he was shy and retiring. He never sought the limelight and
many of his private philanthropies and acts of generosity will never be known.
His only real family was that of his brother Frank who died in 1924; Prank's
widow, furdine, Will Clayton's sister, and her six sons. As Trustee for the
younger sons of his brother Frank, he invested for them with the same meticu-
lous skill which characterized his every financial act. In his will he was
as generous to his in-laws as to his own flesh and blood.
In keeping with many men of self-made wealth, fr. Anderson was frugal,
almost to a fault. During his thirty-two years in Houston, he lived in down-
town Houston hotels, in a single room, not a suite. One of the hotels had
been his home for many years when the owners decided to renovate it completely,
including installing a new elevator. r-espite ample advance notice, Mr. Anderson
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Greenwood, James, Jr. Monroe Dunaway Anderson: Benefactor of Medicine and Mankind, text, October 5, 1964; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822881/m1/21/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.