William Alexander was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland.

The evidence

• “He is the son of William and Mary Ann (Goodfellow) Alexander. His father, born August 25, 1825, in Roxburghshire, Scotland, was the only child of William and Janette (Douglass) Alexander. He passed his boyhood and received a good common school education in his native land, and in 1851 married, and in the spring of 1852 came to the United States and settled at Milton, Wis.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 587 / book p. 1071

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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