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tive in the Missouri state legislature; and for two terms was mayor of Gallatin, Mo. In 1901-06 he was judge of the seventh judicial circuit of Missouri. In 1907-11 he was a representative from Missouri to the sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a democrat.

Alexander, Leo, exporter, traveler, was born Feb. 12, 1861, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Newark, N.J. For many years he was a stenographer and private secretary; and has traveled in foreign lands all over the world several times. He is a successful exporter of agricultural machinery; and senior member of Leo Alexander and company of New York City, the well-known exporters of agricultural machinery. He has filled several positions of trust and honor and is a popular member

and

of several associations

clubs.

Alexander, Mark, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1792, in Mecklenburg county, Va. He was elected a representative in the Virginia state legislature in 1815. In 1819-31 he was a representative from Virginia to the sixteenth to the twenty-second congresses. He died July 6, 1883, at Scotland Neck, N.C. Alexander, Mrs. Matilda Greathouse, librarian, author, was born June 14,- 1842, in Mount Vernon, Ind. She was one of the founders of the Alexandrian public library of Mount Vernon, Ind.; and is its assistant libraria.n. She is the author of Going West; Here and Hereafter Worth Wins and other works. 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 he entered the army. At the close of the war he resided at the High Hills of Santee, pursuing his profession; and afterward at Mecklenburg. In 1803-05 he was a "representative from North Carolina to the eighth congress. In 1805-07 he was governor



of North Carolina. Salisburg, N.C.

He

died

March

8,

1808, in

Alexander, Robert, loyalist, congressman,

was born about 1740 in Baltimore, Md. In 1775-77 he was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress. He subsequently went to England with other Baltimore loyalists. He died about 1796 in England. Alexander, Samuel Davies, clergyman, author, was born in 1819 in Princeton, N.J. He was the author of Princeton College in the Eighteenth Century; and A History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. He died Oct. 26, 1894, in

New York

City.

Alexander, Stephen, educator, astronomer, author, was born Sept. 1, 1806, in Schenectady, N.Y. He was a professor at Princeton college in 1834-78. He was the author of Physical Phenomena of Solar Eclipses; and Certain Harmonies of the Solar System. He died June 25, 1883, in Princeton, N.J. Alexander, Suydenham B., soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1840, in Mecklenburg county, N.C. In 1S61

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he enlisted in the army as a private soldier in the first North Carolina volunteer infantry; in 1862 he was elected captain of company K, forty-second North Carolina infantry; and in 1864 was detached from his company and served as inspector-general on the staff of Major-General Hoke. After the civil war he returned home and engaged in farming; and in 1877 was master of the state grange and a member of the state board of agriculture. He was a member of the state senate in 1878-90. In 1891-95 he was a representative from North Carolina to the fifty-second

and

fifty-third congresses.

Alexander, Taliaferro, lawyer, statesman, was born March 17, 1847, in Catahoula parish, La. In 1870 he began the practice of law in Shreveport, La.; and in 1898 was a member of the state constitutional convention of Louisiana. 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. In 1776 he was brigadier-general in the continental army; and in 1777 became major-general.

He was known

as Lord Stirling; and in

1779 by act of congress a vote of thanks was given him for the judicious measures taken by him in the war; and in 1873 another act from congress expressing appreciation of his bravery, perseverance and military talents and regret for the loss of so brave an oflicer. He died Jan. 15, 1783, in Albany, N.Y.

Alexander, William, clergyman, theologist, founder, was born Dec. 18, 1831, in Huntingdon county, Pa. in 1858 he graduated from Jefferson college; and in September of the entered same year Princeton theological

seminary, graduating therefrom in 1861. He has been pastor in various presbyterian churches. He was president of Carroll college

Wisconsin; president of the City col-

of

lege of San Francisco, Cal.; and in 1871-99 theological professor in the San Francisco theological seminary, of which institution he was the principal founder. In 1899-1900 he traveled in Europe and the Orient. He was the author of Commentaries on International Sunday School Lessons; and was one of the editors of the Presbyterian and Reformed Reviews. He died in 1906 in San Anselmo, Cal.

Alexander, William Addison, clergyman, theologian, author, was born Jan. 19, 1857, in Kosciusko, Miss. In 1875 he graduated from the university of Mississippi; in 1879 from Princeton theological seminary; and has received the degrees of A.M. and D.D. Since 1879 he has been in the presbyterian