Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

J. J. CRITTENDEN ALEXANDER was born in Cumberland County, Ky., June 19, 
1842.  He is the third of a family of five sons:  Robert, James, 
Crittenden, Charles and Henry, and seven daughters:  Mary, Martha, 
Sallie, Carrie, Julia, Pamelia and Eliza.  The mother, Pamelia (Allen) 
Alexander is yet living.  The father, John D. Alexander, a 
philanthropist, died in 1854.  In 1844 he removed to Warren County, Ky., 
where he resided until his death.  He was a son of John Alexander, whose 
father, John, was a native of Virginia, and removed to Cumberland 
County, Ky., being one of the first settlers of that county.  The 
descendants of John Alexander, Sr., can be numbered by thousands and are 
prominent in almost every State of the Union.  They are far above 
mediocrity and noted for their energy and tact for pushing whatever 
enterprise they enter into, or whatever vocation they follow.  John J. 
Crittenden Alexander received his early education in the common schools 
of Warren County, and finished with a course in Cecilian College.  At 
the age of nineteen took a situation as clerk in a drug store, where he 
remained until 1872.  Having a natural taste for horticultural pursuits, 
he has given his attention principally to that business for the last 
twelve years, and is now the proprietor of the most extensive orchards 
in southern Kentucky.  He was married, in 1868, to Miss Sallie 
Carpenter.  They are blessed by the birth of four sons:  Dabney, Edward, 
Franklin and Charles, and two daughters:  Beatrice and Ida.

Alexander Allen Carpenter
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Cumberland VA

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