W. C. Alexander, banker, now of Grove City, was born, September 10, 1843, in this county. His parents, William H. and Mary M. (McConnell) Alexander, were born, the former in this county and the latter in Ohio.
The father survives his wife, and two of his four children are living; D. H., of Worth Township, and W. C. The father was elected prothonotary of Mercer County in 1863, at the time when the business now done by the county clerk was attached to the duty of the prothonotary.
Our subject was educated in the common schools, and taught at the age of nineteen. He was his father's deputy prothonotary, and held the same position under A. B. McCartney. Before the latter's term expired he was chosen teller of the First National Bank of Mercer, and after twelve years in this department he served as deputy internal revenue collector under J. F. Walther, of Erie, for two years. He then engaged with W. B. Bard in the lime business in Butler County.
He went out with the 100 day troops. He has been a member of the borough council one term, is a Republican, and is now connected with the Grove City Bank, doing business, under the firm name of Graham & Alexander.
~ History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Page 651
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