Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE E. ALEXANDER, M.D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Of Haywards, began his medical studies under the preceptorship of an eminent practitioner at 
Beloit, Wisconsin, and, taking the regular course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College 
at Philadelphia, he graduated in 1873.  He accepted an appointment as physician in the 
Government service and came to the Pacific coast and filled his position as such under the 
command of Generals Davis and Howard, in the department of Columbia.  He resigned this 
commission in 1875 and came to Gilroy, Santa Clara County, practiced for seven months, then 
followed his profession at San Ramon, in Contra Costa County, for a period of ten years, and 
finally, in 1886, he moved to Haywards, where he has already built up a lucrative practice.
	He dates his birth October 15, 1847, in Pennsylvania.  He enlisted as a private in the 
Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and served as such until 1865, when he was mustered 
out.  He then entered Beloit (Wisconsin) College, where he commenced his literary education.  
He then spent a few months on the Kansas and Colorado plains; then a year at Monmouth, Illinois, 
and then returned to Beloit, where he began his medical studies as already stated.  He is the 
eleventh of thirteen children in his father�s family.  His parents, Randall and Sarah (
Carothers) Alexander, are both natives of the Keystone State, his father being born in Franklin 
County, in 1807.  His paternal ancestors were from the north of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish 
extraction.  His great-grandfather, Reynold Alexander, was one of the early settlers of 
Pennsylvania and served in the Revolutionary war.  His grandfather, William Alexander, was born 
in what is now Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and served as an officer in the war of 1812.  
Politically Dr. Alexander is Democratic and takes an active part in political matters.  He is a 
member of Alamo Lodge, No. 122, of Walnut Creek, and of Oakland Commandery, No. 11, K. T.  He 
was married at San Ramon, October 15, 1877, to Miss Mary E. Lynch, a native of California, and 
they have two children:  Archie and Adele.

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