BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles ALEXANDER, Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, WI

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Charles Alexander, physician and surgeon, Eau Claire, was born in the town of 
Pittston, Kennebec Co., Me., April 28, 1824.  When he was four years old, he 
was removed to Farmington, Franklin Co., Me.  He was educated at Yarmouth and
Farmington academies, and graduated from the Medical Department of the 
University of the city of New York, March 8, 1850, having attended lectures
at Harvard, and at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.  He came to
Eau Claire in September, 1866, and engaged in practice here.  He has been for
several years President of the School Board.  Has held various positions in 
the Baptist Church; was for four or five years superintendent of the Sabbath
school.  He was Surgeon-in-Chief in the 5th Army Corps.  The doctor has one
son, Joseph B. Alexander, who was born Nov. 21, 1870.

--Transcribed from "History of Northern Wisconsin,"  The Western Historical 
Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor, Chicago, IL, 1881.  Page 314