Rowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Alexander, Nathaniel March 8, 1808 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Shank Carolynshank@msn.com October 4, 2008, 12:53 pm Thurs., March 17, 1808, Raleigh Minerva DIED, at Salisbury, on the 8th, NATHANIEL ALEXANDER, ESQ., late Governor of this State, in the 53rd year of his age, after a lingering consumption. MR. ALEXANDER graduated from Princeton College in 1776, and in three years after, when he had completed his studies in medicine, entered the army. – After the independence of our Country was settled, he moved to the High Hills of Santee, and pursued his profession; in a few years after he removed to Mecklenburg in this State, from which county and the county of Lincoln, alternately, he has been elected to the Legislature, and for several years served in his district in Congress when the Legislature elected him to the Government of the State. In all these public stations, he discharged his duty with ability and firmness. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/obits/a/alexande1978gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb