BIO: Alexander, Capt. A.H. - Unknown Co


BIO:  ALEXANDER, Capt. A.H., s/o Ashbury & Elizabeth (Lindsey) Alexander

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

ALEXANDER   LINDSEY   SMITH

History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana, Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 
Publishers,   1885,   Chicago

Washington Twp, Pike Co, p. 383

CAPT. A.H. ALEXANDER, fire insurance agent and justice of the peace of 
Petersburg, Ind., is a native of Dubois County, Ind., born February 15, 1827.
He is the 5th of the nine children, born to the marriage of Ashbury Alexander 
and Elizabeth Lindsey, natives of North Carolina and Kentucky, respectively. 
The father, when about twenty-six years of age, came to Indiana and located 
in Pike County in 1811, and the following year was married.  He soon after 
removed to what is now Dubois County, where he remained until 1831, when he 
went to Daviess County.  He died there April 15, 1852.  The mother died in 
the same county, February 27, 1863.  A.H. Alexander was reared at home 
receiving his education in the old log house of that day.  At the age of 
twenty-three he married and located on a farm about four miles from 
Petersburg, where he remained until 1859.  In that year he removed to Jasper,
where he was engaged in a general merchandise business until 1861; at the 
breaking out of the war he assisted in raising Company E, Fifty-eighth 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which company he went into service as its 
first lieutenant and June 2, 1862, was made its captain.  He served in that 
capacity until the battle of Stone River, when he received a gunshot wound 
in the arm and side.  June 1, 1863, he resigned his commission on account of 
disability and returned home.  During October and November of that year he 
raised Company F, Tenth Indiana Cavalry, with which he served as captain 
until mustered out August 31, 1865.  Besides the battle of Stone River, he 
particiapated in battles of Perryville, Shiloh, Corinth, Nashville, Decatur 
(Ala.), Fort Blakey (Ala.), and numerous lesser engagements.  Since the war 
he has resided in Petersburg, engaged in his present business.  He is now 
serving his sixth term as justice of the peace.  April 12, 1849 he was joined 
in marriage with Lucy Smith, a native of this county and to their union have 
been born Four children, only two of whom, Mary and Laura (now Mrs. Mart 
Fleener) are living.  Both Capt. Alexander and wife are members of the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  He is also a member of the G.A.R. and 
A.F.& A.M.  In politics he is a stanch Republican.


 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998