Scripps-McRae properties in the South, he became editor of the Memphis Press in Memphis, Tennessee, the Denver Express in Denver, Colorado, and the Oklahoma News in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1919, Andersson moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to become general manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a Scripps feature service. In 1921, he left the newspaper business for the first time and moved to San Antonio to enter the cotton business. His absence from newspapering was short-lived, as he returned to Dallas a year later and once again became publisher of the Dispatch, a position he held until retirement in 1937. But a year later Karl Hoblitzelle and others purchased the Dispatch and combined it with the Dallas Journal (which they simultaneously acquired from A. H. Belo Corporation, publisher of The Dallas Morning News) to create the afternoon Dallas Dispatch-Journal, and induced the reluctant Andersson to become its publisher. Andersson finally retired in December 1938. Andersson was tall and spare and had a reserved manner and patrician features. He was described as "essentially a kind man, although his was not the heartiness associated with the back-slapper." His newspapers tended to be crusading and somewhat sensational, often publishing several editions daily. Family Andersson, on June 18, 1900, in Chicago, married Dorothy Winnifred Smart (maiden; 1876–1911). Two years later, on June 13, 1913, in Cincinnati, he married Ruth Holmes Harper (1890–1974), whose father, Jacob Chandler Harper (1858–1939), was general counsel for the Scripps-McRae newspapers. Death Suffering from gradual circulatory failure and failure to completely recover from bronchial pneumonia, Andersson was stricken on a cruise and returned to the La Jolla, California, home of his wife's deceased parents, which the Anderssons had been using as a summer home and where he died on May 11, 1950, at age seventy-five. He had three children, one of whom, a son, was editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar''. Notes and references Notes References 1874 births 1950 deaths Publishers from Liverpool English emigrants to the United States American newspaper publishers (people) Kansas City World people