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This article presents information related to the writer Sherwood Anderson, the son of Irwin and Emma Anderson, who was born in Camden, Ohio, on September 13, 1876. When he was fourteen he dropped out of school, worked as a stable boy, delivered newspapers, and took other available odd jobs. Anderson married Cornelia Lane, the daughter of a well-known Toledo businessman, in 1904. In 1906, the couple moved to Elyria, where Anderson was the president of a mail-order paint factory that became the Anderson Manufacturing Company. While employed at the Long-Critchfield Advertising Agency, he continued to produce stories and soon became associated with the writers and artists of the Chicago Renaissance. In the early years of the twentieth century, this movement included Henry Blake Fuller, Robert Herrick, Theodore Dreiser, Floyd Dell etc.