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Alexander Hamilton McHenry Alexander
was born in Allegany County, New York, July 20, 1810. In early life he
evinced a strong inclination for reading and the study of history,
national, geographical, and military; in more mature youth,
mathematical. When he was fifteen years old he was chosen captain of
artillery by the comrades of his youth, serving two years, a
reminiscence which gave him great satisfaction. About the time he was
twenty-one he adopted Pennsylvania as his home, attending for a brief
period the school held in the octagon-shaped building yet remaining on
Third Street in Williamsport. He was connected with an engineer corps in
1833 and 1834 on the public improvements of the State and finished a
mathematical course in 1835. While he made field surveys as early as
1826, it was not until the Spring of 1836 that he began his life
business-field surveying, which he followed continuously to within a
short time of his death, thus covering a period of fifty-five years, He
was one of the best informed men on land titles, and location of surveys
on the ground in northern Pennsylvania. May 18, 1839, he was appointed
deputy surveyor of the district then composed of Sullivan, Lycoming, and
Clinton counties and part of Cameron County. He was also appointed one
of the commissioners to re-survey and establish lines between the
counties of Union, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, and Tioga, He was one of
the corporators of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek, and State Line Railroad
Company (now Fall Brook Coal Company's railways). In 1856 he was one of
the commissioners to organize the Jersey Shore Bank. In the same year
he rendered important service in furnishing statistical materials to
John F. Meginness, who was then engaged on his History of the West
Branch Valley. In 1857 he was one of the corporators of the Jersey Shore
Gas Company. At the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted, and as
captain of Company G, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, did active
service in the field from August 1862, to November 1864, when he was
discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability. He was a member of
Major Keenan Post, No. 349, G.A.R. He was a consistent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church from his youth. He was an honorable, upright
citizen and died March 2, 1892, at his home in Jersey Shore.
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was born in Allegany County, New York, July 20, 1810. In early life he
evinced a strong inclination for reading and the study of history,
national, geographical, and military; in more mature youth,
mathematical. When he was fifteen years old he was chosen captain of
artillery by the comrades of his youth, serving two years, a
reminiscence which gave him great satisfaction. About the time he was
twenty-one he adopted Pennsylvania as his home, attending for a brief
period the school held in the octagon-shaped building yet remaining on
Third Street in Williamsport. He was connected with an engineer corps in
1833 and 1834 on the public improvements of the State and finished a
mathematical course in 1835. While he made field surveys as early as
1826, it was not until the Spring of 1836 that he began his life
business-field surveying, which he followed continuously to within a
short time of his death, thus covering a period of fifty-five years, He
was one of the best informed men on land titles, and location of surveys
on the ground in northern Pennsylvania. May 18, 1839, he was appointed
deputy surveyor of the district then composed of Sullivan, Lycoming, and
Clinton counties and part of Cameron County. He was also appointed one
of the commissioners to re-survey and establish lines between the
counties of Union, Clinton, Lycoming, Potter, and Tioga, He was one of
the corporators of the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek, and State Line Railroad
Company (now Fall Brook Coal Company's railways). In 1856 he was one of
the commissioners to organize the Jersey Shore Bank. In the same year
he rendered important service in furnishing statistical materials to
John F. Meginness, who was then engaged on his History of the West
Branch Valley. In 1857 he was one of the corporators of the Jersey Shore
Gas Company. At the breaking out of the rebellion he enlisted, and as
captain of Company G, Thirteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, did active
service in the field from August 1862, to November 1864, when he was
discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability. He was a member of
Major Keenan Post, No. 349, G.A.R. He was a consistent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church from his youth. He was an honorable, upright
citizen and died March 2, 1892, at his home in Jersey Shore.
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