20 Orton Place

One of the last homes to be built on Orton Place because the lot is the most narrow of any on the street. It is only 27 feet wide and 127.5 feet deep. The
first owners of this home were Manton E. and Mary A. Anderson. Tellico Johnson, of 22 Orton Place built 20 Orton Place for the Anderson’s. On August 25, 1886, Fannie A. Gies purchased the property from Kittie J. Boughton. On May 17, 1887 Johnson purchased the undeveloped lot from Fannie A. Gies for $2,700. Next, on May 23, 1887, Johnson received permission from the city to

erect a “frame dwelling 20 X 57 and two stories, west side Orton Place about 163 feet northerly from Hudson St.” In October of that year, the Anderson’s purchased the completed home from Johnson for the sum of $7,500.

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Manton E. Anderson was a medical doctor and in 1888 had W. Elmendorf as a
student in his home. Elmendorf later became a medical doctor. Anderson’s

obituary stated: “The funeral of Manton O. Anderson, M. D. who died at his home, No. 55 Granger place on Friday was held from Saint John’s Episcopal church, Colonial circle, yesterday, the Rev. Walter Russell Lord, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Henry Mesier, both old friends. The bearers, business associates, were Dr. Pliny H. Hayes, Dr. George S. Hobbie, Dr. Albert J. Hobbies, Ernest B. Walker, John G. Monk and William C. Achilles. The burial was in Forest Lawn cemetery.”

“Dr. Anderson was born in the little town of Wilkinsonville, Mass., on December 31st, 78 years ago. When the Civil war broke out he was but a youngster and four times during the first year he tried to enlist, but was
rejected because of his age. During the last year, at the age of seventeen, he was accepted in the First Massachusetts light artillery. He was the only one of his company destined to return. In the attack on Fort Monroe he was captured by the enemy and for nine months languished in prison, first at Andersonville and later at Florence. He returned home almost a physical wreck, weighing 61 pounds in his army coat. His father carried him from the
station to his home in his arms. A few years later he moved to Binghamton and in 1872 married Mary Antoinette Ogden. He studied medicine at the New York Medical college, class of