Greene-Monroe-Lawrence County IN Archives Biographies.....Alexander, John D. 1839 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN D. ALEXANDER, State's Attorney for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, was
born in Bloomington, Ind., February 6, 1839, and came with his parents, William
and Martha L. (Dunn) Alexander, to Greene County in 1843, where he was raised to
manhood. William Alexander was a physician, which profession engaged his
attention until his retirement from active life in 1867, after which he removed
from the eastern part of the county to Bloomfield, where he died in 1871, aged
seventy-seven years. His widow died in 1883, aged eighty-seven years. Both were
natives of Kentucky, but their parents were from the Old Dominion. John D.,
after receiving the benefits to be derived from the common schools, entered the
classical course of the State University, graduating in 1861. August 18, 1862,
he enlisted as private in Company E, Ninety-seventh Indiana Volunteers, and on
the company's organization was appointed Orderly Sergeant. In February, 1863, he
was advanced to Second Lieutenant, and December 15, 1864, was promoted to the
Captaincy of Company D, Ninety-seventh Regiment. In April, 1865, Gen. Logan
appointed him Acting Assistant Inspector General of the Second Brigade, First
Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, which remained his official duties until being
mustered out of service June 9, 1865. Capt. Alexander was a participant in the
battles of Vicksburg, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Griswoldville, Ga., Savannah,
Columbia and Bentonville. After the war, he took a six months' course at the Law
Department of the Michigan State University, subsequently practicing his
profession one year at Bedford, and the remainder of the time being engaged in a
like pursuit at Bloomfield. In 1880, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, and in 1882 re-elected to this position, the State
Legislature of 1882-83 changing the circuit to the Fourteenth. Capt. Alexander
is a Republican in politics, and at present is a member of the law firm of
Alexander & Letsinger.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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