Rev. John Edmiston Alexander and Catherine Milligan Potter

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Husband Rev. John Edmiston Alexander ^{1 2}

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           Born: 2 Jun 1815 1
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         Father: Samuel Edmiston Alexander (1785-1862) 3 4
         Mother: Mary Alexander (Abt 1793-1869) 5

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   Other Spouse: Mary Milliken (1820-1854) 2 6 - 22 Nov 1842 6

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Wife Catherine Milligan Potter ⁷

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         Father: Daniel Potter (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Mary Milligan (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Katie Alexander ⁷

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           Born: 20 May 1861 - Washington, Guernsey Co, OH 7
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2 M Daniel Potter Alexander ⁷

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           Born: 5 Mar 1863 - Washington, Guernsey Co, OH 7
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3 F Susan Alexander ⁷

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           Born: 5 Jun 1865 - Hightstown, Mercer Co, NJ 7
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4 M William Alexander ⁷

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           Born: 18 Sep 1868 - Hightstown, Mercer Co, NJ 7
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. John Edmiston Alexander

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Having spent his early youth on his father's farm, in Little Valley, Pennsylvania, he manifested so much fondness for study that he was prepared at Lewistown Academy for Jefferson College, where he graduated in 1839. Having become a subject of Divine grace in the second year at college, he changed his choice of a profession from law to divinity, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, 1839, and graduated, 1842. After being licensed by the Huntingdon Presbytery in June of the same year, he supplied the Presbyterian church of Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, for four months. In the autumn of the same year (1843), he received a unanimous call to the pastorate over the churches of Washington and Senecaville, Guernsey County, Ohio, containing an aggregate of three hundred and twenty communicants. He served this large and laborious charge for ten years, with gratifying success, until compelled, by severe bronchial disease, to resign his pastorate and to seek the benefit of a milder climate, in Florida, in 1852. Having returned from the South improved in health, but still disabled for the pulpit, he was appointed Principal of the Miller Academy by the Presbytery of Zanesville, 1853, in which he had good success until the school was closed, in 1862, by the effects of civil war. This institution was located in Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio, where Mr. Alexander had resided since the beginning of his pastorate in 1842, a period of twenty years. Here a large number of young men were educated for the gospel ministry, and for other useful callings.
In the spring of 1863 Mr. Alexander removed from Ohio to New Jersey, and founded the Hightstown Classical Institute, over which he presided for nine years. Here he made a specialty of aiding and educating young men preparing for the ministry. For twenty-nine of these he raised, by personal efforts, six thousand dollars of pecuniary aid while prosecuting their studies.
On the 8th of July, 1872, Mr. Alexander removed to Elkton, Maryland, and conducted the Academy there for two years. April 1, 1875, he moved to Ridley Park, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and for six months taught in Ridley Park Academy and preached to a small congregation gathered at that place. Having received a call from the Presbyterian church of Greeneville, East Tennessee, he removed to that place October 15, 1875, taking charge of the church. In July, 1876, he composed and published a "Historical Sketch of Greeneville Church," one of the first organized west of the Alleghanies.

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General Notes: Wife - Catherine Milligan Potter

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from Steubenville, Jefferson Co, OH

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

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 586.

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

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

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

6 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 58.

7 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 60.