Tipton-Tippecanoe County IN Archives Biographies.....Alexander, Jesse 1827 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   JESSE ALEXANDER, ex-County Treasurer, was born in Butler County, Ohio, May
24, 1827. His parents, Robert and Lucy (Wilson) Alexander, in 1881 removed to
Tippecanoe County, Ind. Here they resided until 1842, when they located in
Tipton County, Ind., where Jesse has ever since resided. After the last
mentioned date, his father removed to Illinois, in Adams County, in which State
he still resides at the advanced age of seventy-eight. Our subject attended the
common schools. He engaged in farming, in which occupation he had been brought
up, in Prairie Township of Tipton County. He commenced with a farm of eighty
acres, half prairie and half timber. He is now the possessor of 240 acres of
land, 200 acres of which are under cultivation, the balance consisting of
timber, and all of it well drained by tile and open ditches, and well set in
blue grass. During eleven years, in connection with his other business, he ran a
threshing machine during the summer and fall seasons, having purchased the first
thresher that was brought to the west part of the county. Politically, he is a
Democrat. During a period of twenty years, ten terms, he acted in the capacity
of Assessor of Prairie Township. He has been many times a delegate to the
Democratic County Conventions, and twice a delegate to the State Convention. In
1879, Mr. Alexander was elected to the office of County Treasurer, and
discharged the duties of that position for one term of two years. One other
public service of our subject that deserves special mention, is the laying-out
of Fair View Cemetery, which was performed by him and Mr. Fred Wilcox. It is
well arranged and beautifully situated. Mr. Alexander was married September 27,
1849, in Tipton County, to Miss Maria Kemp. The issue of their marriage consists
of eight children, viz.: Clara, Mary J., Margaret, David H. and George F.; also
three deceased, viz.: Abraham D., Florence H. and Lucy. He resides on North Main
street, in Tipton, in a nice residence, of which he is the owner. Mr. Alexander
is practically an abstainer from intoxicants, although he has never signed the
pledge.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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