Record of the descendants of John Alexander

Hugh Alexander. 1 7 1
8. Priscilla Alexander married James Hagens.
9. Catherine Alexander married William Randolph.
10. Robert Reed Alexander lives in Huntingdon Co.,
Pa., unmarried.
The record of this large family is very defective
owing to the difficulty of getting reports.
CHAPTER VII.
Joseph Alexander, born about the year 1775, lived
and died a bachelor. Ther© is much of melancholy
interest connected with the character and life of this
man. He was gifted with rare endowments of both
body and mind. He was six feet and two or three
inches in stature, straight and well proportioned. His
bodily presence and address was prepossessing. His
countenance and voice were pleasing, and his conversa-
tional and memory were remarkable. His mental en-
dowments were naturally of a high order, and were
improved by good advantages in early youth. For, being
intended by his pious parents for the Gospel ministry,
his college education was considerably advanced at the
date of his father's death, (1791.) But after that event
he unhappily turned aside from literary pursuits to
teaching, merchandizing, politics, &c, until intemperate
habits ruined his business, and blasted all his bright
hopes and prospects. His hopeful but temporary refor-
mations and relapses need not be recounted. They are
common in such cases, and are watched with pleasing
and painful feelings by all true friends.