Calhoun-Cleburne County AlArchives Biographies.....Alexander, William J. 1842 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM J. ALEXANDER was born in Calhoun County, Ala., in May, 1842, and is
a son of Arthur T. and Rebecca (Borden) Alexander.

    The senior Mr. Alexander was born in North Carolina, and when a child taken
by his parents to Habersham County, and thence to Carroll County, Ga. He came to
Calhoun County, this State, in 1832, and settled eight miles east of Cross
Plains (now in Cleburne County), where his father entered lands and improved
them. He died in 1851, and a few months later his wife followed him. They left
two sons and four daughters, all of whom lived to maturity. The Alexanders and
Bordens are of English ancestry.

    The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, received a common-school
education, and at the age of seventeen years began life as a farmer, which he
has continued ever since.

    In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-fifth Alabama Infantry, and
was in the first battle of Farmersville, Tenn., south of Shiloh. He participated
in the Kentucky invasion, was taken prisoner at Glasgow, Ky., and was exchanged
about two months later. He joined his regiment again at Shelbyville, Tenn., and
was in the battles of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, in all the fights from
Chattanooga to Atlanta and New Hope Church to Atlanta. When Hood made his raid
into Tennessee, our subject joined Wheeler's cavalry, with which command he
remained until the surrender.

    At the close of the war he resumed farming. In 1871 he was appointed sheriff
of Cleburne County, and in 1874 was elected to that office. He served in this
capacity about six years. In l878 he was elected to the Lower House of the
Legislature, reelected in 1882, and in 1884 was elected to the Senate from his
district, which office he holds at the present writing (1888). Mr. Alexander was
married in August, 1866, to Sarah Cornelia, daughter of Henry A. Smith, of Floyd
County, Ga. This union has been blessed with two children, William H. and Bessie E.

    Mr. Alexander and wife are members of the Christian Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.

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