Biography of Alexander St. Clair - Mercer Co. WV

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
Page 160

ALEXANDER ST. CLAIR. Though his home was always over the state line in 
Tazewell County, Alexander St. Clair was associated in many of his interests 
with the industrial district of which Bluefield is one of the most prominent 
centers. Bluefield is also the home of his sons Drs. Wade H. and Charles T. 
St. Clair.

Alexander St. Clair was born at Jeffersonville, now Tazewell Court House, 
April 15, 1845, son of Alexander and Martha (Tabler) St. Clair. His father 
died while the Civil War was in progress and the mother survived him over 
thirty years. Alexander St. Clair found his work within a close radius of his 
birthplace, and for many years was one of the prominent farmers and cattlemen 
of Southwestern Virginia, and practically always had some active interests in 
merchandising, banking, and other affairs. He was one of the organizers of 
the Bank of Clinch Valley at Tazewell, served as president of the 
institution, was connected with the First National Bank of Pocahontas, and at 
one time he owned land on which the town of Pocahontas was built.

    Alexander St. Clair was a boy when the war came on, but he served during 
the last two years of the Confederate Army as a member of Company I, 
Forty-fifth Virginia Cavalry, under Colonel Graham, whose son, W.R. Graham, 
is now a resident of Bluefield. Mr. St. Clair left his studies at Roanoke 
College to join the army at the age of eighteen, and finished his education 
in that institution before taking up his business career. Mr. St. Clair was a 
consistent member of the Methodist Church and was affiliated with the Masonic 
Order.

    September 26, 1871, he married Miss Maria J. Tiffany. They were married 
at the old Tiffany homestead on Bluestone in Tazewell County, and they lived 
there until about fifteen years ago, when they moved to a handsome home on 
the edge of Tazewell Court House. Here on September 26, 1921, they celebrated 
their golden wedding anniversary, and it was less than a month later that a 
wide circle of friends and business associates who had learned to esteem 
Alexander St. Clair as a safe business guide and adviser felt an intimate 
personal loss in his death, which occurred October 21, 1921. Mr. and Mrs. St. 
Clair were the parents of eleven children, two of whom, Rosalinda and Janie, 
died in childhood. The nine who with their widowed mother survive are: Drs. 
Charles T. And Wade H. St. Clair, of Bluefield; John, Frank and Alexander, of 
Bluestone; Glen M. And Roy, of Tazewell; Otis, of Welch; and Miss Maria of 
Tazewell.


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