F.E. Anderson & Co. Cotton Yard

This plaque is located on the northwest corner of the old Elks Building in downtown Jackson, across from M.D. Anderson Plaza. It reads:

F.E. ANDERSON & CO. COTTON YARD CIRCA 1890 At this location Frank Ervin Anderson began what was to become the largest cotton trading company in the world, Anderson, Clayton, & Co. Frank, his brother-in-law Will Clayton and later his brother M.D. Anderson began their new partnership at Oklahoma City in 1904. The growth of the business required moving to Houston, Texas, in 1914. Frank Anderson died in 1924, leaving Will Clayton and M.D. to run the company until it was purchased by the Quaker Oats Co. in 1986.

Submitted by Sylvia M. Rowe