Family
Alexander married Roe Ann Richardson, the daughter of a judge, on February 3, 1876. The couple had eight children.
Alexander's son, aviator Walter Alexander, was killed in a propellor accident at Bolling Field in 1920. Another son, George Forrest Alexander, became a federal judge in Juneau, Alaska.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“My family pride is something inconceivable. I can’t help it. I was born sneering.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)