Jerome A. Anderson

Dr. Jerome A. Anderson (1847-1903) was a prominent member of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society. He was the editor of The New Californian from 1891-1894.

According to W. Michael Ashcraft:

He was a member of the Pacific Coast Committee and perhaps the most important name among California Theosophists in the 1890s. Anderson grew up in Kansas and served in the Civil War. A schoolteacher, he move to California and earned a medical degree. His spiritual journey was just as varied. his family was Presbyterian, but he left that church and became a Universalist,then an agnostic, and while investigating Spiritualistic phenomena heard about Theosophy through Judge and The Path. Anderson later opposed Tingley's Point Loma community, accusing early Point Loma residents of scandalous activities and fearing the centralization of efforts in one locale depleted resources elsewhere. But he left an indelible mark on California Theosophists, helping to lay the groundwork for what became the Point Loma enterprise.