Alexander, Isaac J – Alger, Cyrus
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
congressman, was elected a representative in congress from Ohio May 4, 1813, serving till 1817.
Alexander, John Edminston
clergyman, genealogist. In 1842 he became a clergyman of the presbyterian church, and for the ten years during 1853-62 was principal of the Miller academy of Washington, Ohio, where he had been pastor for twenty years. He is the author of a Historical Sketch of Greeneville Church, Tenn.; a History of the Synod of Tennessee; A Record of the Alexander Family, and other works.
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.
Alexander, John M
soldier, business man, public officer, was born May 17, 1841, in Delaware county, Ohio. He served three years in Sheridan's army, and was wounded at Fisher's Hill in 1864. He is a successful business man of Gallipolis, Ohio, and has been mayor of his city four terms.
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Alexander, Joseph Addison
clergyman, author, was born April 24, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa., and is a son of A. Alexander. He was a presbyterian clergyman, professor at Princeton college, and theological seminary, 1820-60. was the author of Commentaries on the Psalms, Isaiah, Acts, Matthew, and Mark, and many theological reviews, often as sarcastic as they were forcible. He died Jan. 28, 1860, in Princeton, N. J.
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Alexander, Lorenzo P
soldier, merchant, state senator, was born Aug. 10, 1820, in Angelica, N. Y. When twentyone he settled in Buchanan, Mich. 1844 he was a militia captain, and in 1845 became colonel of the 28th regiment. He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature of 1841-42; in 1867 was member of the constitutional convention; and in 1871-72 state senator. He was a delegate to the republican national convention at Baltimore in 1864, and was a member of the committee that notified President Lincoln of his renomination.
He was postmaster of Buchanan from 1862 to 1866, and again from 1877 to 1886.
Alexander, Mark
congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1792, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia. He was elected a representative in the Virginia state legislature in 1815; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1833. He died July 6, 1883, at Scotland Neck, N. C.
Alexander, Matilda G
author, was born June 14, 1842, in Mt. Vernon, Ind. She is the author of Going West; Here and Hereafter; and Worth Wins.
Alexander, Nathaniel
soldier, physician, congressman, governor, was born in 1756, in Mecklenburg, N. C. He graduated from Princeton college in 1776, and, after studying medicine, entered the army. At the close of the war resided at the High Hills of Santee, pursuing his profession, and afterwards at Mecklenburg. While he held a seat in congress, as a representative from North Carolina, from 1803 to 1805, the legislature elected him governor for 1806. He died March 8, 1808, in Salisbury, N. C.
Alexander, Robert
was born about 1740, in Baltimore, Md. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1775 to 1777. ALEXANDER, ROBERT CARTER, lawyer, journalist, was born July 7, 1857, in West Charlton, N. Y. He was made secretary and treasurer of the Mail and Express corporation, as well as its legal counsel; and in 1895 became editor-inchief of the paper. In 1890 he was elected a life trustee of Union college.
ALEXANDER, SAMUEL DAVIES, clergyman, author, was born in 1819, in Princeton, N. J., and was a son of A.
Alexander. He was a presbyterian clergyman of New York city from 1855; and the author of Princeton College in the Eighteenth Century; and A History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. He died in 1894.
Alexander, Stephen
educator, astronomer, author, was born Sept. 1, 1806, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was an astronomer who was a professor at Princeton college in 1834-78, and the author of Physical Phenomena of Solar Eclipses; and Certain Harmonies of the Solar System. He died June 25, 1883, in Princeton, N. J. in
Alexander, Sydenham B
soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1840, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. He entered the university of North Carolina in 1856 and graduated from that institution in 1860. In 1861 enlisted in the army as a private soldier in the first North Carolina volunteer infantry; June, 1862, was elected captain of company K, forty-second North Carolina infantry; and in 1864 was detached from his company and served as inspectorgeneral on the staff of Major-General R. F. Hoke; after the war returned home and engaged in farming; in 1877 was master of State Grange and a member of state board of agriculture; he was elected to the state senate in 1878, and was reelected in 1882, 1884, and 1886. He is a member of the board of trustees of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical college; and was elected to the fiftysecond and re-elected to the fifty-third congress.
Alexander, William
soldier, was born in 1726, in New York city. He served gallantly with Washington during the revolutionary war; and it was through him that the Conway Cabal was made known to Washington. He died Jan. 15, 1783, in Albany, N. Y.
Alexander, William
clergyman, theologist, was born Dec. 18, 1831, in Huntingdon county, Pa. In 1858 he graduated from Jefferson college; and in September of the same year entered Princeton Theological seminary, and graduated therefrom in 1861.
He has been pastor in various presbyterian churches, and was president of the Carroll college, Wis.; president of the City college of San Francisco, Cal.; and since 1871 has been theological professor in San Francisco theological seminary, of which institution he was the principal founder. He is the author of numerous published Sermons and Addresses, Commentaries on International Sunday School Lessons, and various other letters and papers. He is one of the editors and a contributor to The Presbyterian and Reformed Review.
Alexander, William Cowper
lawyer, state senator, was born in 1806 in Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and soon gained a reputation for legal knowledge and eloquence and took part in political affairs. For several years he was president of the New Jersey state senate. He was nominated for governor, and lacked but a few votes of election.
After being a member of the peace congress of 1861, over which he was frequently called to preside, he withdrew from politics and devoted himself entirely to the business of insurance, having been elected president of the Equitable Life Insurance company when it was organized in 1859, of which he was president at the time of his death. He died Aug. 23, 1874, in New York city.
Alexander, William Irvin
clergyman, lecturer, was born May 13, 1867, in Greenwood, Ind., a suburb of Indianapolis. He graduated in 1889 from Hartsville college, and in 1893 from Lane Theological seminary of Cincinnati, Ohio.
He taught school for awhile, and in 1893 accepted a call to the First presbyterian church of Decatur, Ind.; and during a pastorate there of two years the membership was doubled. In 1895 he accepted a call to the Willow Creek presbyterian church of Argyle, Ill. The largest country church in the United States, composed of a large and wealthy Scotch congregation in what is known as the Scotch settlement. The services of this rising presbyterian clergyman are in demand as an evangelist and lecturer.
Alford, Julius C
congressman, was born in Georgia. He was elected a representative in congress from Troup county, Ga., from 1839 to 1842.
Alger, Cyrus
inventor, iron founder, was born Nov. 11, 1781, in West Bridgewater, Mass. Early in life he became an iron-founder, and established his business in Easton, Mass. In 1809 he removed to South Boston, where he founded the works that since 1817 have been known as the South Boston Iron company. Mr.
Alger also devised numerous improvements in the construction of time fuses for bomb-shells and grenades. In 1811 he patented a method of making cast-iron chilled rolls, and in 1822 first designed cylinder stoves. He died Feb. 4, 1856, in Boston, Mass.