Record of the descendants of John Alexander

15 2 The (Descendants of
Ard and Henderson, of Lewistown, Pa., he attended
medical Lectures in the University of Pennsylvania,
where he enjoyed the instructions of Drs. Gibson,
Physick, James, and Chapman, all eminent in their
profession. Having graduated in 1824, he went the
same year to the State of Ohio and settled near Dayton,
where he commenced the practice of medicine. On the
25th of April, 1834, he there married Martha Harri-
son, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Harrison. In 1834
he removed to Middletown, Butler county, Ohio, where
he resided uutil 1847. His health being now infirm,
he purchased the farm of his wife's grandfather in
Montgomery county, Ohio. Having retired from medi-
cal practice, he lived there until his death by pneumo-
nia, January 11, 1865, aged sixty-eight years. His
widow, Mrs. Martha H. Alexander, now resides with
her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie A. Young, in the city of Day-
ton. Dr. Hugh Alexander had four children, who all
died in infancy except one daughter,
Elizabeth Alexander, who married, April 18, 1854,
E. E. Young, of Hanover, Pa. Her husband died three
years after marriage, leaving her with one son,
Hugh Alexander Young, born January 26, 1855.
SECTION VI.
Julia Ann Alexander, born June 23, 1801, in Kish-
acoquillas Valley, married Hugh Turkett McAlister,
of Juniata county, Pa., April 6, 1830. Mr. H. T.
McAlister is descended from another Hugh McAlister,
who with two brothers emigrated from the North of
Ireland to America in 1730. His ancestor settled first
in Lancaster county, Pa., and moved thence to Sher-
man's Valley, in Perry county, Pa. His sons were
among the first settlers in Tuscarora and Lost Creek
Valleys, and participated in the struggles of Indian and