Samuel Hugh Alexander and Nancy McCurdy

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Husband Samuel Hugh Alexander ¹

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           Born: 27 Jan 1828 1
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         Father: Samuel Edmiston Alexander (1785-1862) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Alexander (Abt 1793-1869) 4

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       Marriage: 22 Apr 1857 5

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Wife Nancy McCurdy ⁵

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         Father: John McCurdy (      -      ) 5
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Children

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1 M [Infant] Alexander ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Hugh Alexander

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Having a taste and talent for learning, after studying at Miller Academy, Ohio, and at Tuscarora Academy, Pennsylvania, he graduated at Lafayette College, 1855. He was Principal of the Kishacoquillas Seminary from 1856 to 1858.
He studied theology and graduated at Princeton Seminary, 1861; had been licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 1860; preached as stated supply in the churches of Aurora and Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1861, and to the church of Newark, Ohio, in 1862. He was sent by the Christian Commission to care for the sick and wounded, and was on the field at the great battle of Antietam, attending upon the duties of his mission. Here fatigue and exposure induced such an aggravation of a chronic throat-ail, that he had to relinquish the active duties of the ministry.
Returning to the work of education, in 1864 he founded the Classical Institute of Columbia, Pennsylvania, of which he continued to be an efficient and successful Principal until 1874, when he retired to a farm which he had purchased near Culpepper, Virginia, about the close of the war. Here he later founded a new institution, called Wheat Dale Classical Institute.

1 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 55.

2 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 43, 53.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590.

4 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 53, 159.

5 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 63.

6 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 64.