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Alexander, Hezekiah {I04261} (b. BEF. 14 MAY 1815, d. UNKNOWN)

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 14 MAY 1815 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4261

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 1 JUN 1817 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4262

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1841 Census CD
Media: Census

Baptism: 4 JUL 1819 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Occupation: Date: 1841
Place: Female Servant in the house of Charles Culverhouse, Attorney

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4263

Census: Date: 1841
Place: Aged 20, living in High Street, Ramsbury

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 26 OCT 1823 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4264

Note: from "Alexander Family History" http://pweb.jps.net/~autoserv/alex.htm

Joseph and his bride Hannah came to America the year they were married. It is probable that Joseph's father, John, his brothers and sisters, friends and neighbors came on the same ship, or these others may have come the following year when Joseph made a return trip to England.

The family remained together for a while in Albany, New York. Then some of the brothers and sisters went west into Minnesota and Wisconsin territories, into Iowa and all the way to California and Washington. Some remained in New York and many descendents (descendants) still live in the eastern states.

Joseph Alexander pushed westward and was living near Watertown, Wisconsin on a farm in 1844 when his son was born on 30 September. He probably lived there about 10 years, as another son, Joseph E. was born there 25 December 1854 and later children were born in Rochester, Minnesota. While living in Watertown he ran some sort of general mercantile business and also sold and repaired shoes. In his day book of the period from 1848 to 1852 there are numerous entries for leather, hemp, tacks and mending shoes. His entries for 1848 indicated that he was still using the English money system, pounds, shillings and pence.

While living in Watertown Joseph and Hannah became parents of five children; George John, Jabez Newton, Mary Ann, Hannah Belinda and Joseph E. Jabez Newton was born in Ramsbury Parish, England in 1848 while Hannah was making a return visit to her home there. The first child of Joseph and Hannah, also named Jabez, was born in England, brought to America as an infant, died at the age of about two and was buried in Watertown. Harriet Pike Alexander, wife of Joseph's father, John Alexander was also buried there.

One has to wonder why Joseph Alexander decided to leave his own family, other relatives and friends and again head westward. He left Watertown October the sixth 1854 to seek a home in Minnesota. After a long and weary tramp he reached LaCrosse ( by highway today about 150 miles.) There he became acquainted with a Mr. Wesly Ilen and his father who were on there way to Oronoco, Minnesota, and they wanted him to ride with them. The next day they crossed the river on the ferry and camped by a stream. Several of the campers were sick and as he had medicine with him and he understood what herbs to administer to the sick, he practiced medicine for the first time in Minnesota.

Joseph Alexander arrived in Rochester on 14th of October 1854. His first business activity in Rochester was the operation of a saw mill. Leonard's History of Olmsted County says: "Rochester's first manufacturing industry was a saw mill built by Joseph Alexander and William Goldsworth, a son-in-law of Judge Olds, in 1855. It consisted of a scaffold six or eight feet high to which logs were raised and sawed by a long saw worked by a man on the ground and one on the platform., a primitive plan in common use in China. It did a large business and turned out as much as 500 feet a day. There was a ready demand for all it could manufacture. A later enterprise, a furniture factory burned down in 1863, after which the power was used for a feed mill and woolen mill."

Joseph continued his practice as an herb doctor while in Rochester. Also, being deeply religious, he was often called upon to perform the acts of a minister during the first years he was in Rochester and before any regular minister had appeared in the settlement.

At one time Joseph Alexander built and operated a saw mill about three miles west of Pine Island on the middle branch of the Zumbro River. An agreement was made in 1861 between Alexander and Goldsworthy to remove the machinery from Rochester to the site near Pine Island. Joseph and Hannah built a house near the new mill and it was there that their last child, William, was born in 1870.

Joseph Alexander started the operation of his grist mill about 1873 or 1874. He used the same water power that ran the woolen mill and the two mills were attached. It probably about this time that the wooden water wheel fell into disuse. Joseph Alexander's power came from a horizontal wheel, similar to a turbine. The mill was first run by water power and later converted to steam power.

The woolen mill was established in 1872 by Joseph Alexander and W. G. Barley. Some time later Mr. Alexander took over sole ownership and operation of the mill. The mill manufactured yarn, blankets and flannel; made wool into batts, and single yarn to be used in making wool cloth; made wool into rolls about 3 feet long and 1/2" in diameter for use on old fashioned spinning wheels.

For more information on the family, visit the family web-site at: http://pweb.jps.net/~autoserv/alex.htm

Source: (Birth)
Title: http://pweb.jps.net/~autoserv/alex.htm
Media: Electronic

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 4 JUN 1826 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Occupation: Date: 1844
Place: Carpenter

Death: 28 JAN 1897 Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Reference: 4265

Source: (Baptism)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 24 MAR 1826 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4266

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 28 JUN 1829 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4267

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 10 MAR 1771 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4268

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 14 MAR 1773 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4269

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 28 JAN 1776 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4270

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 23 NOV 1777 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4271

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 27 FEB 1780 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4272

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 8 SEP 1782 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4273

Source: (Baptism)
Title: Pam Bye's Tree at RootsWeb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 2 SEP 1787 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4274

Source: (Birth)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 12 MAY 1765 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4275

Source: (Birth)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 14 APR 1776 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4276

Source: (Birth)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 5 AUG 1770 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4277

Source: (Birth)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 5 JUN 1773 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: BEF. 14 APR 1776

Reference: 4278

Source: (Baptism)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 1 DEC 1728 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: UNKNOWN

Reference: 4279

Source: (Baptism)
Title: IGI
Media: Electronic

Source: (Burial)
Title: Jenny Long's Tree at Rootsweb
Media: Electronic

Baptism: 27 JUN 1733 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Death: AUG 1794 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Burial: 29 AUG 1794 Holy Cross, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England

Reference: 4280