Thomas Tyler Alexander

Birth Date

1823-07-30

Death Date

1888-03-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, judge, and provost marshal. Henry County, Virginia, native. Son of Joseph Alexander and Sarah Bouldin Alexander. Married to Ellen C. Alexander. Graduated from Princeton College and the University of Louisville Law School. Attorney in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Cumberland County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1862. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Adair County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Provost marshal of the 4th District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from May 1863 to December 1863. Judge of the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1864 to 1874.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, p. 279A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, page 153.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, page 1A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, p. 53B.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878) p. 32.
"Will Arrive To-day: The Remains of Judge Alexander to be Interred in Cave Hill," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 26, 1888, p. 5.
Reports of Bvt. Brig. Gen. D. C. McCallum, Director and General Manager of the Military Railroads of the United States, and The Provost Marshal General (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), p. 151.
Michael C. Watson, comp., An Adair County, Kentucky History (Columbia, Ky.: Watson Publications, 2001), p. 56.
"Thomas Tyler Alexander (1823-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial 88555432, accessed March 16, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88555432.
KYR-0001-004-1309.
KYR-0001-029-0557.

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