Background
Alexander, William was born on December 18, 1831 in Huntington Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ranald and Sara Henderson (Carothers) Alexander.
Alexander, William was born on December 18, 1831 in Huntington Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ranald and Sara Henderson (Carothers) Alexander.
Preparatory education Tuscarora and Juniata Academies, Pennsylvania. Studied 3 years Lafayette College. Graduate Jefferson College.
Graduate Princeton Theological Seminary, 1861 (Doctor of Divinity, University of Wooster, O. Doctor of Laws, Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania).
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, June, 1862. Pastor Lycoming Church Williamsport, Pennsylvania. President Carroll College, 1863-1865.
Pastor Beloit, Wisconsin, 1865-1869.
San Jose, California, 1869-1871. President City College, San Francisco, 1871-1874.
Principal founder San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1871. Professor New Testament Greek and Exegesis, 1871-1876.
Church history, same, since 1876.
Traveled in Europe and the East, 1899-1900. Democratic until 1862 then Republican.
Member of committee to revise Westminster Confession of Faith, 1890-1893.
Married Mission M. P. Osborne, December 25, 1861.