Alexander E. Mahan Bio. Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by: Valerie Crook The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 230 Hancock County ALEXANDER E. MAHAN is a native son of Hancock County, a representative of one of the old and honored families of this section of the state, and as a fruit grower is fully upholding the prestige of the family name and that of the county, his attractive orchard homestead being situated near the Village of Arroyo and on rural mail route No. 4 from New Cumberland, the county seat. Mr. Mahan was born at New Cumberland, this county, on the 9th of October, 1879, and is a son of Captain W. Chester Mahan and Margaret (Smith) Mahan, the former of whom died in 1908, at the age of sixty-six years, and the latter in 1921, at the age of sixty-eight years. The father was a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he was a member of Company I, Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He was captured by the enemy and was held a captive of war at Anderson- ville Prison for six months. He took part in many en- gagements and did well his part in preserving the integrity of the nation. After the war he became actively identified with navigation service on the Ohio River as part owner of packet boats. He served as captain on these river steamboats, including the "John Porter," which vessel unfortunately carried the yellow-fever scourge as far as Gallipolis, Ohio, at the time when the dread epidemic was raging at Memphis, Tennessee. Captain Mahan later en- gaged successfully in fruit growing on the fine place now owned and operated by his son Alexander E., of this sketch, who is the elder of the two children and whose sister, Miss Helen M., likewise remains at the old home. Alex- ander E. Mahan married Miss Sadie Brenneman, a daugh- ter of George G. Brenneman, and the one child of this union is Alexander E., Jr.