{"id":78,"date":"2012-07-28T23:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T04:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:43:54","slug":"biography-alexander-samuel-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/biography-alexander-samuel-j\/","title":{"rendered":"ALEXANDER, Samuel J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><strong>Maj. Samuel J. ALEXANDER<\/strong>, an influential farmer and merchant of Macon, Fayette Co., Tenn., was born in Henderson County December 1, 1833, and is the son of <strong>John M. and Cynthia (Williamson) ALEXANDER<\/strong>, both natives of Mecklenburg County, N.C. \u00a0The father was of Scotish-Irish descent, the mother was of German. \u00a0The father was born December 16, 18180, and died at our subject&#8217;s home May 10, 1877. \u00a0The mother was born December 20, 1815 and died June 26, 1856. \u00a0They married in North Carolina May 5, 1831. \u00a0In early life they moved to Henderson County, Tenn., but not being satisfied there, they moved to Fayette County two years later, and settled eleven miles west of Somerville, where the father engaged in farming; he was a consistent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church up to the time his wife died, when for convenience he joined the Methodist Church. \u00a0Our subject was the oldest of six children. \u00a0He was educated at Macon Masonic College, and after leaving college was salesman for the firm of Dougan &amp; White, at Macon, for two years, then bought <strong>Mr. WHITE&#8217;s<\/strong> interest, and from then until now has continued the business, excepting the years he was in the war. \u00a0<strong>Mr. ALEXANDER<\/strong> began life without means, but by his energy and business tact has acquired a comfortable estate, owning in addition to a half interest in the $4,000 stock of foods, over 4,000 acres of land in Fayette County and $2,000 worth of stock in the Vanderbilt Insurance Company of Memphis, and $550 in the Memphis &amp; Charleston Railroad Company. <strong>\u00a0Mr. ALEXANDER<\/strong> has recently erected an elegant residence in Macon; it is the best finished house in the county. \u00a0October 20, 1858, he married <strong>Miss Mollie W. TOWLES,<\/strong> who was born in Virginia, June 12, 1841. \u00a0They have no children except an adopted daughter, who is a granddaughter of the<strong> Rev. T.L. BOSWELL, D.D<\/strong>., of the Memphis Conference. \u00a0In the summer of 1862 he went into the Confederate Army as private, but was soon promoted to the major and commissary of subsistence, and served in this capacity until the war closed. \u00a0He is a sound Democrat, and a very prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and contributes very liberally to its support. \u00a0Mrs. ALEXANDER is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and is a woman of deep piety. \u00a0Mr. ALEXANDER is regarded as one of the most useful citizens of Fayette County.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><em>Source: \u00a0Goodspeed&#8217;s History of Tennessee, 1887.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maj. Samuel J. ALEXANDER, an influential farmer and merchant of Macon, Fayette Co., Tenn., was born in Henderson County December 1, 1833, and is the son of John M. and Cynthia (Williamson) ALEXANDER, both natives of Mecklenburg County, N.C. \u00a0The father was of Scotish-Irish descent, the mother was of German. \u00a0The father was born December 16, 18180, and died at our subject&#8217;s home May 10, 1877. \u00a0The mother was born December 20, 1815 and died June 26, 1856. \u00a0They married&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/biography-alexander-samuel-j\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}