Martha A Alexander
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1846 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Death: 1909
Burial: in Gifford cemetery, Provincetown 1
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Parents
Father: Isaac Bemis Alexander (1810-1890) 2
Mother: Elizabeth Gillespie (1816-1848)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Elisha H Tillson (1836 - )
Marriage: 21 Feb 1892 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 3
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Mary H Alexander
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Sep 1842 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 2
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Death: Cir 1920 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Events
• Probate 4, , Barnstable, Massachusetts in Barnstable, Massachusetts
will proved
Parents
Father: Isaac Bemis Alexander (1810-1890) 2
Mother: Elizabeth Gillespie (1816-1848)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Edwin P Worthen (1837 - 18 Jun 1909)
Marriage: 29 Nov 1906 - Springfield, Massachusetts 5
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2. George H Lewis (1838 - 23 May 1905)
Marriage: 8 Jan 1860 - Boston, Massachusetts 6
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Mary J Alexander
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1823 - Hebron, New Hampshire
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Spouses and Children
1. *Richard Paine Lombard (3 Mar 1827 - ) 8
Marriage: 15 Dec 1861 - Boston, Massachusetts 7
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parents: John & Mary Alexander
Mary M Alexander
Sex: F
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Birth: Sep 1897 - Massachusetts
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Father: John Joseph Alexander (1860- )
Mother: Mary Almeda Carr (1864- )
Minnie S Alexander
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1861
Baptism:
Death: 7 Aug 1863 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 9
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Father: Rev George S Alexander (1832- )
Mother: Abby G Smith (1835- )
Philip W Alexander
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Sep 1889 - Massachusetts
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Father: John Joseph Alexander (1860- )
Mother: Mary Almeda Carr (1864- )
Robert Gillespie Alexander
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Sep 1834 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 2
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Father: Isaac Bemis Alexander (1810-1890) 2
Mother: Elizabeth Gillespie (1816-1848)
Spouses and Children
1. *Lucie A Hamilton (1858 - )
Marriage: 20 Feb 1883 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 3
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1883 ship smith, Provincetown
Sarah Dunning Alexander
Sex: F
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Birth: 14 Oct 1860 - Swan Island (Perkins), Maine 11
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Father: Albion D Alexander (1823- ) 12
Mother: Alvira H Lewis (1826- )
Sarah Wallace Alexander
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1764 - Loughbrickland, Newry, Down, Ireland
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Death: 4 Dec 1830 - New London, Connecticut
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Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Loughbrickland, Newry, Down, Ireland in Loughbrickland, Newry, Down, Ireland
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Christopher Raymond Perry (4 Dec 1761 - 1 Jun 1818)
Marriage: 2 Aug 1784 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Status:
Children:
1. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819)
2. Raymond Henry Perry (1789-1826)
3. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858)
4. Anna Maria Perry (1797-1856)
5. Jane Tweedy Perry (1799-1875)
6. James Alexander Perry (1801-1822)
7. Nathaniel Hazard Perry (1802- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Captain Christopher Raymond Perry)
Captain Christopher Raymond Perry (4 December 1761 – 1 June 1818) was an American officer in the United States Navy. He married Sarah Wallace Alexander on August 2, 1784 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their sons, Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew C. Perry, were both distinguished naval officers as well. Daughter Jane Tweedy Perry married William Butler, Jr.
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, he spent his early years as a privateer. In 1799, he was appointed to the U.S. Navy. Perry built and commanded General Greene in which his son, Oliver, also served.
He was retired from the Navy in 1801. 13
Sarah Wiliston Alexander
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Feb 1837 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 2
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Death: 6 Jul 1838 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 2
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Father: Isaac Bemis Alexander (1810-1890) 2
Mother: Elizabeth Gillespie (1816-1848)
Victor E Alexander
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1929 - (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
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Father: Warren Anthony Alexander (1895- )
Mother: Almerinda (1901- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Jane Baker (Cir 1932 - )
Marriage: 24 Sep 1953 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 14
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s/o M/M Warren Alexander of Baradford St, Provincetown
1953 trap fisherman, Provincetown
Dec 1957 - injured in hunting accident - hit by shotgun pellets at Paradise Valley, Truro, on opening day of deer season. Then the ambulance was in a crash at South Wellfleet. (Prov. Adv, 5 Dev 1957)
Warren Alexander
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1921 - Massachusetts
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Father: Warren Anthony Alexander (1895- )
Mother: Almerinda (1901- )
Warren Anthony Alexander
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Aug 1895 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 3
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Father: John Joseph Alexander (1860- )
Mother: Mary Almeda Carr (1864- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Almerinda (1901 - )
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Children:
1. Dorothy Alexander (1917- )
2. John J Alexander (1918-1981)
3. Warren Alexander (1921- )
4. Barbara Alexander (1924- )
5. Victor E Alexander (1929- )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Almerinda)
1910, 1920 US census, Provincetown
Adele N Alford
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1913 - Washington, DC
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Father: Thalbert Nelson Alford (1884-1928)
Mother: Adele R Taylor (1884- )
Thalbert Nelson Alford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Jul 1914 - Washington, DC
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Death: 26 Apr 1918 - Charleston, South Carolina
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Parents
Father: Thalbert Nelson Alford (1884-1928)
Mother: Adele R Taylor (1884- )
Thalbert Nelson Alford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1884 - Wills Point, Texas
Baptism:
Death: 2 Jul 1928 - Newport, Rhode Island 15
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Spouses and Children
1. *Adele R Taylor (Jul 1884 - )
Marriage: 7 Nov 1911 - Washington, DC
Status:
Children:
1. Adele N Alford (1913- )
2. Thalbert Nelson Alford (1914-1918)
3. William Taylor Alford (1915-1973) 16
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1910 US census, USS Colorado, Bremerton, Wash.Marriage Notes (Adele R Taylor)
1915 naval officer, Wellfleet
1920 US census, Radio Station, Cavite, Phillipines
1930 US census, Coronado, San Diego, Calif
William Taylor Alford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Dec 1915 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 16
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Death: Apr 1973
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Cause of Death:
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• Social Security Number, 037-26-0490, Rhode Island in Rhode Island
Parents
Father: Thalbert Nelson Alford (1884-1928)
Mother: Adele R Taylor (1884- )
Rev Horatio Alger Jr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Jan 1832 - Chelsea, Massachusetts
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Death: 18 Jul 1899 - Natick, Massachusetts
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"Horatio Alger Jr. (1834-1899) was a prolific American author of boy’s adventure stories whose heroes lead exemplary lives to Strive and Succeed in the face of adversity and poverty, good and evil.
Horatio Alger Jr. was born on Friday the 13th of January, 1832 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the oldest of five children. He developed near-sightedness and asthma as a youngster, and wasn’t to excel academically till many years later.
His mother, Olive (née Fenno) Alger, was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. His father, Horatio Alger Sr. earned his living as a Unitarian Minister, but supplemented his meagre ministerial income by becoming the first postmaster in town, tending a small farm and occasionally teaching grammar school. But the family never really got out of economic straits, whereupon they left the town in 1844 to go to Marlborough. It was here that Horatio entered prep school and started to excel with his studies.
In 1848, sixteen year-old Horatio was accepted to Harvard University with financial assistance from his father’s cousin Cyrus Alger, and embarked on the happiest four years of his life. Studying under such illustrious teachers as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio started to hone his writing skills with poetry, short sketches and academic essays on topics from chivalry to Cervantes, earning the title Class Poet and winning many awards and prizes.
Alger was initially not as successful when, upon graduating, he submitted stories to various magazines and newspapers only to have them rejected. “Carl Cantab” and “Charles F. Preston” were two of the pseudonyms he used to publish the works that he felt were second-rate. Not earning enough to support himself by writing, Alger took on temporary teaching positions, which allowed him the time to continue writing, mostly comedic adult stories for monthly publications. Subterfuge, sexual innuendo and bachelors being tricked into marriage were prophetic themes.
In 1854 Alger left Cambridge to take a teaching position in Rhode Island, only to return three years later to attend Theological School for three years. He then went on a tour of Europe which he enjoyed immensely, sending letters back home to be published in the monthlies to defray his travel costs. Upon return ten months later he found himself docking in Boston at the start of the Civil War. Drafted and with his slight stature (he was five feet-two inches tall) and poor health he was assigned to the home front, during which he and a sixteen year-old soldier named Joseph Dean maintained an intimate correspondence. Following the War, Alger wrote the well received Frank’s Campaign (1864), the story about a young boy who organizes a junior army while his father is fighting in the Civil War.
Alger then accepted the call to minister at the First Unitarian Church and Society of Brewster, Massachusetts in 1860. He capably performed his duties and was welcomed by the congregation. After a period of a year however, rumours of depraved and unnatural acts began to surface that threatened Alger's security in the ministry. An inquiry and two boys confirmed charges of molestation and Alger left the church. Writing became a solace for him, one product of it being the poem Friar Anselmo’s Sin (1875), the process of expiating sins through atonement producing a great many works of note during this period.
[...]
Horatio Alger died on 18 July, 1899, at his sister's home, of heart disease. He had left instructions to Augusta that his funeral was to be as private as possible, with as little personal detail as necessary released to the public. His true age was not reported at the time of his death and his remains were promptly cremated before burial. According to his wishes, Augusta destroyed all of his personal writings and correspondence, making it difficult for historians to document his life with such a dearth of primary sources. His will left almost everything to family and friends."
Biography written by C.D. Merriman. Copyright Jalic LLC 2005
http://www.online-literature.com/horatio-alger/
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"[...] In October 1864, he was invited to preach at the First Parish Church in Brewster.
Something clicked. Alger liked the parish, and the parish liked him. In November his first book, Frank's Campaign was published. In December Alger was ordained at his new church on the Cape in a stirring ceremony that required a half-dozen visiting ministers, including his father and Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country. The Yarmouth Register said the ceremony was "one of peculiar and general interest," involving an "intelligent and animatedly interested congregation."
A couple weeks later, the Rev. Alger spoke at the Lyceum in Yarmouthport about his travel through Europe. There he demonstrated all the characteristics that made him an effective preacher and author. "It was a most admirable performance ... and was characterized by good sense, discriminating judgement and shrewd observations of the peculiarities of people," the Register wrote.
The Rev. Alger's popularity began to sour after he had been in the job for slightly more than a year. Whispers of improper conduct began to circulate around Brewster. On March 6, the Unitarian church's standing committee voted not to renew the Rev. Alger's contract. That action infuriated some members of the church who felt that if the horrible rumors were true and nothing was done, then the Rev. Alger would be free to continue his depravities at another parish. An investigation was called for, and it revealed what everyone feared: Horatio Alger, the minister and children's book author, was a pedophile. And he had been preying upon boys in the parish.
The church investigating committee confirmed that at least two boys had been molested. In a report to the American Unitarian Association in Boston, one of the investigators submitted a summary of their findings, which said in part:
"Horatio Alger Jr. who has officiated as our minister for about 15 months past has recently been charged with gross immorality and a most heinous crime, a crime of no less magnitude than the abominable and revolting crime of unnatural familiarity with boys, which is too revolting to think of in the most brutal of our race -- the commission of which under any circumstances is to a refined or Christian mind too utterly incomprehensible ..."
When confronted with these accusations, Alger did not deny them, nor did he confirm them except to say he had been "imprudent" with the boys in question. He left town that day, never to return.
The rest of the story, unfortunately, has become all too familiar in modern times. Alger never returned to the ministry, but continued to write articles on faith and morality for Unitarian journals aimed at youth. When outraged Unitarians from Brewster complained, the national organization claimed there was nothing it could do. The matter was effectively swept under the rug.
Alger went on to write his very successful series of novels for boys. There is no record that he continued molesting children, although he did move to New York City where one could indulge in such appetites with anonymity. When he died he was beloved all over America by millions of children and adults for his life-affirming tales of the courage of young boys in the face of adversity. Alger was loved everywhere except in the small, quiet village of Brewster which knew that no matter how many wonderful novels you write, it was not words, but deeds, by which we measure a man."
Evan J. Albright, capecodconfidential.com, 2002
Anthan Alitalo
Sex: M
AKA: Tauno Antlan Walter Alitalo
Individual Information
Birth: 17 Jan 1912 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 18
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Death: 8 Mar 1913 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: pneumonia 19
Parents
Father: Victor Alitalo (Est 1880- )
Mother: Ania Matson (Est 1880- )
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age 1 1 21
Charles Alitalo
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 17 May 1910 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 20
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Death:
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Father: Victor Alitalo (Est 1880- )
Mother: Ania Matson (Est 1880- )
Sources
1. Provincetown cemeteries (http://www.provincetowngov.org/historic/cem.htm). badly organized
2. George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 27:126.
3. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Provincetown.
4. Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass [archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable]), 17 jan 1921.
5. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Truro.
6. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Boston.
7. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), 146:118.
8. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:118. children of Richard and Sally Lombard.
9. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
10. Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter). typewritten manuscript. The 1850 census transcription seems error prone.
11. Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter). .... Perkins town clerks, Perkins Maine Vital Records (1847-1918. Perkins, Maine.)
12. Ruie L. Curtis, Perkins (formerly Swan Island) (1935. Richmond, Maine: Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Richmond Chapter).
13. Wikipedia, Christopher R. Perry.
14. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1953. .... Provincetown Advocate (Provincetown, Mass. [1918-1967 archives online at Provincetown Library]), 1 Oct 1953.
15. Rhode Island archives (via FamilySearch).
16. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1915.
17. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1913. Deaths. .... Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1912. Births.
18. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1912. Births.
19. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1913. Deaths.
20. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1910.