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Alexander, Barton Stone – Alexander, John Henry

Alexander, Barton Stone

civil engineer, general, was born in 1819 in Kentucky. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral March 13, 1865, for meritorious services in the rebellion. He has been much engaged in the construction and repairs of forts and in the erection of Minot's Ledge lighthouse, 1855-61. He was consulting engineer in Sheridan's army, Shenandoah Valley, Va., and present at the battle of Cedar Creek, Oct. 9, 1864.

Alexander, Caleb

educator, clergyman, author, was born July 22, 1775, in Northfield, Mass. He was a clergyman much of whose life was spent in teaching at Onondaga, N. Y. He published Latin and English grammars; Essay on the Deity of Christ; The Columbian Dictionary; Grammar Elements, and a literal prose version of Virgil. He died April 12, 1828, in Onondaga, N. Y.

Alexander, Evan

congressman, was born in North Carolina. He graduated from Princeton college in 1787; was a member of the legislature for two years, and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1805 to 1809. He died Oct. 28, 1809.

Alexander, Francis

artist, was born in 1800 in Connecticut. When eighteen years of age he began painting in water-color without an instructor. About 1820 he went to New York and prosecuted his art studies, as a pupil of Alexander Robertson. He worked for a few months in Providence, R. I., and subsequently opened a studio in Boston, where he gained great popularity as a portrait painter. He went to Europe in 1831, finally taking up his residence in Florence, Italy.

Alexander, Gross

educator, clergyman, was born June 1, 1852, in Scottsville, Ky. He received his education at the university at Louisville; the Drew theological seminary; and the southern baptist theological seminary. He is one of the foremost divines of the south; has been professor of Latin and Greek in the Warren college, Ky.; and is now professor of the New Testament, Greek and Exegesis in the Vanderbilt university of Nashville, Tenn.

Alexander, Henry P

merchant, congressman, was born in New York in 1802. He engaged in commerce; was a representative in congress from Herki- 1851, and was a member of the committee mer county, in that state, from 1849 to on expenditures in the state department.

He died Feb. 22, 1867, in Little Falls, N. Y.

Alexander, Isaac J

educator, lecturer, poet, was born June 5, 1863, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He is a successful educator and lecturer of Royalton, Ohio, and the author of a number of meritorious poems. was

Alexander, James

JR., congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a resident of St. Clairsville, Ohio; elected a representative in congress from the eleventh district of that state from 1837 to 1839, and was a member of the committee on public expenditures. He died Aug. 6, 1846.

Alexander, James Waddel

clergyman, author, was born March 13, 1804, in Louisa county, Va., and was a son of A. Alexander. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city, and the author of Plain Words to a Young Commu- Discourses; nicant; Sacramental Thoughts on Preaching; Life of Archibald Alexander; Consolation; The American Mechanic and Workingman, and other works. He died July 31, 1859, in Red Sweet Springs, Va.

Alexander, Jane Grace

financier, was born Oct. 26, 1848, in Winchester, N. H. She is cashier of the Winchester national bank; treasurer of the savings bank of her native town, and has attained success as a successful business woman and financier.

Alexander, John Henry

scientist, author, was born June 26, 1812, in Annapolis, Md. He was once a noted Maryland scientist and the author of History of the Metallurgy of Iron; Universal Dictionary of Weights and Measures, Ancient and Modern; International Tonnage; Treatise of Mathematical Instruments; Introits; and Catena Dominica, a collection of religious poems. He died March 2, 1867, in Baltimore, Md.