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WALTER H.
ALEXANDER
One of the most complete and extensive clothing and men’s furnishing establishments of Woodland is that owned by Walter H. Alexander, who, although he has been a resident of this city less than a decade, has made a prominent place for himself self among the citizens. He is a native of Warsaw, Mo., born June 27, 1860, a son of Frank and the grandson of George Alexander, natives respectively of Kentucky and Virginia, the elder man having become an early settler of that state. Frank Alexander became a stock dealer and trader of Missouri, in which state his death occurred from the effects of a wound received during the Civil war. He also served in a Missouri regiment in the Mexican war. His wife, formerly Agnes Zook, a native of Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Pa., was taken to Missouri in an early day. She still survives and makes her home in Warsaw. Her two children are J. M. Alexander, located in Warsaw, Mo., where he carries on farming, and Walter H. Alexander, the subject of this review.
Reared in his native state, Walter H. Alexander received his preliminary education in the public schools of Sedalia. In 1878 he entered the Northern Indiana Normal School, located at Valparaiso, graduating from that institution two yeas later. Subsequently he located in Chicago and became traveling salesman for a prominent house in that city. Until 1897 he traveled throughout the southern states with the exception of two years, which he spent in the same capacity on the coast and in California. Pleased with the superior advantages of this part of the west, he came to Woodland in 1897 and established a merchant tailoring business, later putting in a complete stock of clothing and building up a profitable trade in the two lines.
Mr. Alexander married Elizabeth Roseberry, a native of Woodland, and they have one son Walter H., Jr. Mr. Alexander has become prominent in the affairs of the city and in 1905 was elected a member of the city council on the Democratic ticket, he being a strong advocate of that party’s principles. Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World. His wife is a member of the Christian Church.
Transcribed by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of the State of California and
Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, Cal.," J. M.
Guinn, Pages 650-653. The Chapman
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1906.
© 2017 Joyce Rugeroni.
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