Alexander, Charles
journalist, poet, was born March 7, 1867, in Natchez, Miss. For many years he was connected with the Boston Daily Standard and The American Citizen; and in 1894 he established The Monthly Review of Philadelphia, Pa., of which he is still editor and owner. He has contributed poems, short stories and sketches to several leading publications.
ALEXANDER, CHARLTON HENRY, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 12, 1858, in Kosciusko, Miss. He graduated in literature and law from the university of Mississippi, and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Jackson, Miss. He has been reporter of the supreme court of Mississippi, and, in conjunction with Mr. L. Brame, his law partner, is the author of a Mississippi Digest.
ALEXANDER, DE ALVA STAN- WOOD, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 17, 1846, in Richmond, Maine. At the age of fifteen he entered the army, serving three years, and until the close of the war, as a private soldier; upon leaving the service prepared for college at Edward Little institute, in Auburn, Maine, and took his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin college in 1870; afterward located at Indianapolis, Ind., where he studied law and practiced in partnership with Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, now judge of the court of claims in Washington. In 1881 was appointed fifth auditor of the treasury department, and during his residence in Washington was elected and served one term as commander of the department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic. On leaving Washington, removed to Buffalo, forming a law partnership with his college classmate, Hon.
James A. Roberts, at present comptroller pointed United States attorney for the of the state of New York. In 1889 was apnorthern district of New York, holding the office until December, 1893. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
ALEXANDER, EDMUND BROOKE, Market, Va. He was graduated at the general, was born Oct. 2, 1802, in Hay United States military academy in 1823.
After twenty years of frontier and garrison duty he had an opportunity for service in Mexico, where he won a major's brevet in 1847 and a lieutenant-colonel's in 1847. During the civil war he was retained at St. Louis on provost-marshal's duty, involving delicate and responsible administration of important matters. He was brevetted brigadier-general in 1865, and commanded his regiment at Fort Snelling till retirement, in 1869, by operation of law. He died Jan. 3, 1888, in Washington, D. C.
ALEXANDER, EDWARD PORTER, soldier, educator, author, was born May 26, 1835, in Washington, Ga. He graduated from West Point academy in 1857, and was promoted second lieutenant corps of engineers, and served in the United States army in the Utah expedition in 1858. He was instructor in engineering at West Point in 1859-60; and was professor in mathematics and engineering in the South Carolina university in 1866-69. He served with distinction in the confederate service, and until 1892 held numerous and important railroad positions in the southern states. He is the author of Railroad Practice and various pamphlets and articles on railroad and other topics.