Alexander, William (3)
Alexander, William (1)
a Congregational minister, was born at Stranraer, Wigton, Scotland, Feb. 21, 1763. He was apprenticed to his uncle in Newton Stewart to learn the trade of a carpenter. For several years he worked at his trade in Lancaster, England. Visiting the widow of a friend at Golgate in 1797, he was induced to speak to the family on the subject of religion. The neighbors hearing of this, came also to hear this good man and rare talker.’ He thus involuntarily became a village preacher, working at his business all the week, and devoting his Sabbaths to the instruction of multitudes in the vicinity of Lancaster, preaching often four times on the Lord’s day and walking thirty-two miles. In 1802 he preached at Prescot, and finally became their pastor, preaching also in the neighboring villages. He left Prescot and collected a congregation at Leigh, commencing his ministry here in 1811. He had to face much opposition, but his prudence, decision, and piety enabled him to bear as well as to disarm hostility. After fourteen years, he removed to Churchtown, where he labored for twenty years, when old-age compelled him to resign. He died at Southport, in January, 1855. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1856, p. 207.
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Alexander, William (2)
a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in Philadelphia, Aug. 6, 1797. When about seven years old his father took him to England, where he remained about thirty years. He became a Methodist at Dublin, Ireland, in June, 1815, and was licensed to preach at London in 1820 by the Rev. Richard Watson. In 1835 he returned to Philadelphia, and for nearly six years he was moral instructor in the Moyamensing Prison. Subsequently he was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and for a few years before his death was assistant rector of the Church of the Atonement. He died in Philadelphia, March 13, 1859. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1859, p. 352.
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Alexander, William (3)
a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Concerning his birth and life we have no other record than that from 1852 until his death, Dec. 5,.1872, he served the Church as a travelling. preacher in the St. Louis Conference, and that he possessed good preaching abilities and was always a hopeful, cheerful, and devoted Christian and father. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1873, p. 869.