Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

DR. A.J. ALEXANDER was born December 23, 1855, in Hardin County, Tenn.,
and is a son of J.D. and Charlotte (Horton) Alexander.  The father was
born in North Carolina and died in February, 1878, at the age of 
seventy eight.  The mother was born in Williamson County, Tenn., and died
in 1862, at the age of fifty-two.  The doctor spent the first sixteen
years of his life on his father's farm; he then entered school at 
Saltillo, Tenn., and remained for two years.  At the age of eighteen, he
commenced the study of medicine, also practiced dentistry for three
years, and since the age of twenty-one has practiced medicine.  The 
doctor is an electrical specialist in the treatment of chronic diseases
only, and is prepared to give a written guarantee to all cases he treats,
having added electricity to his method of treatment in 1882, and having
met with unprecedented success; he removes tumors without the use of
the knife, or the loss of blood, and without inflicting pain.  In 1883
he came to Mayfield, where he is permanently located.  He was married
in 1878, to Miss Susie Watlington, of Madison County, Tenn., by whom
he has one son and one daughter, viz.: Hillery and Josie.

Alexander Horton Watlington
=
Hardin-TN NC Williamson-TN Madison-TN

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