Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Alexander, Reuben Presley 1859 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

REUBEN PRESLEY ALEXANDER.

   Specific mention is made of many of the worthy citizens of Howard county
within the pages of this book, citizens who have figured in the growth and
development of this favored locality and whose interests are identified with its
every phase of progress, each contributing in his sphere of action to the well
being of the community in which he resides and to the advancement of its normal
and legitimate growth. Among this number is he whose name appears above,
peculiar interest attaching to his career from the fact that his entire useful
and busy life has been spent within, the borders of this county.

   Reuben Presley Alexander was born in Ervin township, Howard county, Indiana,
October 2, 1859, tne son of Joseph and Louisa (Fouch) Alexander, both natives of
Kentucky, who settled in Howard county, Indiana, in 1852, where they lived
useful and prosperous lives until their life records were brought to a close by
the "grim reaper," the former dying March 20, 1885, and the latter September 3,
1902, in her eightieth year. They were the parents of nine children, of whom the
subject was the seventh in order of birth. He was reared in Ervin township,
where he received a liberal education in the common schools and at the New
London high school, later attending the Danville Central Normal College, where
he made a splendid record both for scholarship and deportment, gaining a fine
education which has been of such great aid to him in his later life.

   Mr. Alexander was united in the bonds of wedlock in Ervin township, February
25, 1903, to Louisa R. Crume, who was born in this township April 4, 1875, the
accomplished daughter of George W. and Mahala M. (Norris) Crume, natives of
Howard and Carroll counties, Indiana, respectively. They were people of much
influence in their community and were the parents of seven children, of whom the
wife of the subject was the youngest in order of birth.

   Mr. Alexander settled on the farm where he now resides soon after his
marriage. His farm consists of eighty acres of well improved and highly
productive land, well fenced and drained, in short, one of the most desirable of
the smaller farms of the county. On it stand many convenient and substantial
buildings which are kept in an excellent state of repair.

   Being an educated man and consequently of much influence in the township,
owing to his known interest in all movements having as their object the
betterment of the locality where he resides, it is not at all strange that his
friends and neighbors should call upon him to serve them in a public capacity,
consequently he was a justice of the peace for two terms, serving in this role
with the greatest alacrity and success, using rare soundness of judgment in his
decisions which were never reversed by a higher tribunal.

   Mr. Alexander has always taken a lively interest in the township offices, and
he is a conspicuous figure at local conventions and elections. He has always
been identified with and a loyal supporter of the Democratic party.

   Although Mr. Alexander has always been identified with agricultural
pursuits,, he has found time in connection with this line of endeavor to teach
school fo a period of twenty-two terms, all but two of which were taught in
Ervin township, where he is regarded as one of the ablest educators to-be found
within the borders of this county, having established a firm reputation for
excellent discipline, thorough training and an affable disposition. No man in
Ervin township is more popular or held in any higher regard for his many manly
attributes and sterling uprightness than the subject.



Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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