Background
Blackburn, Alexander was born on November 5, 1844 in Laporte Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Alexander and Delilah (Polk) Blackburn.
Blackburn, Alexander was born on November 5, 1844 in Laporte Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Alexander and Delilah (Polk) Blackburn.
Educated Erie Academy, Pennsylvania, 1 year. Hanover College, Indiana, 1865, 66. Bachelor of Science, Monmouth College, Illinois, 1868.
Bachelor of Divinity, Division School, University of Chicago, 1873.
(Doctor of Divinity, Franklin College, Indiana, 1893).
2d, Virginia Watson, April 21, 1903. Enlisted as private Company C, 84th Regiment Illinois Infantry, June 14, 1862. Promoted to hospital steward of regiment, 1864, severely wounded in Battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863.
Honorary discharged, June 1865. ordained Baptist ministry, 1871.
Pastor Austin Church, Chicago. 1872-1876, Oak Park, Illinois, 1876-1878, 1st Church, Lafayette, Indiana, 1878-1887, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1887-1893, 1st Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1893-1898, 1st Church, Portland, Oregon, 1898-1903, 1st Church, Salem, Massachusetts, 1903-1908, 1st Church, Baker, Oregon, 1908-1910, South Boston, 1910-1912, Southbridge, Massachusetts, 1913-1917.
Then supply pastor. Delaware World Baptist Conference, London, 1905, World Interdenominational Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910.
Mason.; Member G.A.R.
Married Margaret East. Hail, September 11, 1868.