Aldrich, William – Alexander, Henry P
Aldrich, William
merchant, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1820, in Greenfield, N. Y. He was reared on a farm; received a good education; taught school for a time; in 1846 engaged in mercantile pursuits, and in 1851 removed to Wisconsin and engaged in merchandising and manufacturing. He was superintendent of schools for three years; was chairman of the board of supervisors one year, and was a member of the Wisconsin house of representatives in 1859. In 1860 he removed to Chicago, Ill., and engaged in the wholesale grocery business. He was a member of the board of aldermen in 1876, and was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses. He died Dec. 3, 1885, in Fond du Lac, Wis.
Aldrich, William Duane
civil engineer, state senator, was born Dec. 29, 1833, in Smithfield, R. I. He has held various town offices, having been for some seventeen years a member of the town councils of Smithfield and Lincoln. He was a representative in 1869-70, 1892-95, and senator since May, 1895. re-
Aldrich, William F
civil engineer, congressman, was born March 11, 1853, at Palmyra, N. Y. He was educated at the public school of his native village until 1865, when he moved with his father to New York city, in which city and vicinity he attended several schools, and was graduated from Warren's military academy at Poughkeepsie, taking a course in civil engineering; was removed to Alabama in 1874, and engaged in mining and manufacturing, and built up the town that now bears his name.
The only political office he ever held was that of postmaster of his town; elected to the fifty-fourth congress by the combined vote of the republicans and populists of the fourth district, against Gaston A. Robbins, democrat. The latter received the certificate of election from the governor on the face of the returns. Mr. Aldrich instituted a contest, and was seated by the house on Friday, March 13, 1895. In November, 1896, he was again elected to congress, but was again forced to contest for his seat.
Aldrich, William W
stockman, banker, was born Sept. 13, 1826, in Delaware, Ohio. He has been president of the Farmers' and Citizens' bank of Nickerson, Kan., and other institutions. He is now a successful stockman; proprietor of the Border Lawn stock farm of Tipton, Iowa, and the president of the First National bank of that city. a
Aldridge, George Washington
contractor, was born Dec. 28, 1856, in Michigan City, Ind. He has attained a wide reputation and prominence as builder and contractor. He remodeled the Academy of Music, Wilder's arcade, and several private residences of prominence and architectural beauty.
Alexander, Abraham
statesman, was born in 1718 in North Carolina. He represented Mecklenburg county in the colonial legislature prior to 1775.
Alexander, Adam R
congressman, was born in Washington county, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from Madison county, Tenn., from 1823 to 1827.
Alexander, Archer
freedman, was born about 1810, near Richmond, Va.
He was a slave, and fled to St. Louis, formally liberated the same year. then under martial law, in 1863, and was He served as the model for the freedman in the bronze group by Thomas Ball, standing in the capitol grounds in Washington, and known as Freedom's Memorial. He died Dec. 8, 1879, in St. Louis, Mo.
Alexander, Archibald
educator, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1772, in Rockbridge county, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman who was professor at Princeton theological seminary 1812-51 . Evidences of Christianity; The Canon of Scripture; Moral Science; Bible Dictionary are some of his many works.
He died Oct. 22, 1851, in Princeton, N. J.
Alexander, Armstead M
lawyer, congressman, was born May 26, 1834, in Clark county, Ky. He removed to Missouri and settled at Paris; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1860 and engaged in practice. He was prosecuting attorney of Monroe county for six years; was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1875, and was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyeighth congress.
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, 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 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.
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.