Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Alexander, James L
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

James L. ALEXANDER, farmer, P. O. Lockport; was born in New Marlboro, Mass., Aug. 22, 
1805. He was married to Betsy HEALY, of Elbridge, Onondaga Co., N. Y., May 17, 1834; after 
marriage, he lived three years in Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y., where he engaged in farming; 
in 1837, he came West and settled near Lockport, taking contracts on the I. & M. Canal on 
the section at Kankakee, and subsequently on Secs. 62 and 45; after the completion of the 
canal, he purchased a farm in the present limits of Dupage Twp., and occupied it in 1841; 
in 1860, he moved to the farm now owned and operated, by his widow and son, James H.; he 
died Dec. 29, 1876; has two children living - James H. and Sarah E. (now wife of C. W. 
RATHBURN, of Joliet). The home farm contains 382 acres, worth $70 per acre. Never having 
sought political preferment, he held no offices higher than those of School Trustee and 
School Director. He was a well-read, thorough-going business man; perhaps no man in the 
communities in which he lived enjoyed the respect and confidence of his neighbors to a 
fuller extent than did Mr. ALEXANDER; starting in life a poor boy, he, by manly exertions, 
accumulated a competency for his family, and, at his death, no man could truthfully say 
that he had accumulated one cent in a dishonest manner. 

Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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