++WILLIAM PEIRCE ANDERSON was born to parents Hugh and Hannah Louisa Peirce on February 20, 1870. Young Anderson moved to Salt Lake City, Utah when his family converted to Mormonism, but returned to New York to attend the Riverview Military Academy in Poughkeepsie.  He continued his education at Harvard,completing undergraduate work in 1892. He then continued with 2 years of postgraduate studies in electrical engineering.  Anderson entered the Atelier Paulin in Paris in 1894 to prepare for the entrance examination at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where he studied from 1897 until 1899.  After travelling abroad in Italy, France and Spain, Anderson joined the firm of D.H. Burnham and Company.