After an initial career as a businessman, on June 15, 1877 Anderson married Elizabeth Milbank, the reform-minded daughter of the investor Jeremiah Milbank and heiress to his considerable fortune.
The city was founded in 1880 when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway first laid rails into South Dakota, and was named in honor of railroad director Jeremiah Milbank.
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