Introduction

Biography

Maria was the daugh­ter of Tho­mas F. Hill of Exe­ter, Eng­land; wife of George W. An­der­son, pro­fess­or at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lew­is­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia (mar­ried 1847); and grand­mo­ther of ar­my of­fi­cer Tas­ker How­ard Bliss, one of the co-sig­na­tor­ies of the Treaty of Ver­sailles that end­ed World War I.

She was bap­tized in 1845 in Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia, by Will­iam Shad­rack, pas­tor of the Grant Street Bap­tist Church there.

Works

• Jessie Car­ey, 1853
• The Bap­tists in Swe­den (Phi­la­delphia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­er­ican Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­cie­ty, 1861)
• Old Bris­tol: A Sto­ry of the Ear­ly Eng­lish Bap­tists (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­er­ican Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­cie­ty, 1880)
• In Co­lo­ni­al Days: A Tale of Rhode Is­land and Pro­vi­dence Plan­ta­tions (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­er­ican Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­cie­ty, 1886)
• The Fa­mi­ly of the Black For­est
• The Mer­ri­vale Will (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Am­er­ican Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­cie­ty, 1896)