Born near the village of Landersdale in Morgan County, Indiana, Landers attended local schools.

Landers laid out the town of Brooklyn, Indiana, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and stock raising.

He dresses as stylish as H. G. [Horace Greeley] did, and could give a better account of 'what I know about farming,' for he does know a potato patch from a field of buckwheat.

"[1] Landers had been elected as a supporter of currency inflation and the representative of the agrarian wing of the Democratic party.

I spent my money to carry the district at the state election, and I pulled them through, and when I went home I found them organized against me.

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