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Otterbein Civil War Soldiers Biography

This guide details the lives of Otterbein Civil War Soldiers.

James Alexander | 133rd Ohio Voluntary Infantry

James Alexander | 133rd Ohio Voluntary Infantry
by Amanda Kuehnle

    James Alexander was born in Ohio in the year 1846.  His mother was Charlotte Parke and father Thomas Alexander.  Thomas Alexander was an abolitionist.  He worked with William Hanby and Dr. Lewis Davis.  He was a conductor, transporting slaves in a false bottom rake wagon.  Often his sons including James helped him as he took the escaping slaves down Africa Road to Mount Vernon.  He also owned a foundry.  The foundry was located where the Zeta Phi fraternity house is built.  They lived in a log cabin on College Avenue.  He had two brothers, John and David, and a sister, Inez.  Inez lived to be over 100 years old. 
    James Alexander became a plumber.  He married his wife Elizabeth.  They had five children; Mary, Charles, Inas, Ella, and Louis.  James died in 1922.  He is listed in the 1910 Census of Blendon Township and Westerville.

 

Bibliography 

Axline, H.A.  Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. Cincinnati:  The Ohio Valley Press, 1888.

Curry, W.L.  History of Jerome Township Union County, Ohio.  Columbus: 1913.

Harper, Robert.  Ohio Handbook of the Civil War.  Columbus:  The Ohio Historic Society, 1861.

Reid, Whitelaw.  Ohio in the War.  Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers, vol. 1 and 2.  New York: Moore, William and Baldwin, 1868.