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Thomas Alexander
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THOMAS ALEXANDER, treasurer of Butler County and a leading citizen who is interested in oil producing and contracting, has been a resident of the city of Butler for the past tventy-two years.
He was born in Brady Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, September 22, 1844, and is a son of Ambrose and a grandson of Thomas Alexander. Grandfather Thomas Alexander was born in the north of Ireland and came to Butler County among the early settlers, taking up land in Brady Township, on which he continued to live until 1854 when he moved to Franklin Township where he resided until death. On the farm in Brady Township his son, Ambrose Alexander, spent his life, mainly engaged in agricultural pursuits, and died in old age and was buried at West Liberty. Thomas Alexander bears his grandfather's name. He remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age and then found employment in the oil fields, visiting those of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and ever since has been more or less concerned in oil producing and oil contracting. In 1886 he came to Butler and very soon became one of the city's active and useful citizens. He has served three years as a member of the City Council and for three years as a member of the School Board. In 1905 he was elected treasurer of Butler County, for a period of three years, and his administration of this weighty office has been marked with the efficiency that its importance demands. In 1871 Mr. Alexander was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Double, and they have had five children, namely: Lulah J., who is the wife of Emory Beighley, of Butler; Harriet Lillian, who died when aged twenty-one years; John W., who died in May, 1908, aged thirty-four years; Harry McDevitt, who resides at Butler; and Mary Hortense, who is the wife of Claud Burns, of Vandergriff, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Alexander belongs to the United Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World. Source: 20th century history of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and respresentative citizens, McKee, James A., 1909, page 613-614. |
