James Jackson Alexander

1888–1968 (Age 80)
Franklin, Texas, United States

The Life of James Jackson

When James Jackson Alexander was born on 14 May 1888, in Franklin, Texas, United States, his father, Berry Owen Alexander, was 25 and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Triplet, was 19. He married Josephine Gracie Nordskog on 25 May 1914, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He lived in Fullerton, Orange, California, United States in 1930 and Fullerton Judicial Township, Orange, California, United States in 1940. He died in June 1968, at the age of 80.

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Family Time Line

James Jackson Alexander
1888–1968
Josephine Gracie Nordskog
1888–1959
Marriage: 25 May 1914

Spouse & Children

MARRIAGE
25 May 1914
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Parents & Siblings

  • Berry Owen Alexander

    Male1863–1943Male

  • Amanda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Triplet

    Female1869–Female

siblings

(10)

+5 More Children

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 2

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Age 6

Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1909 · The NAACP is formed

Age 21

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

Name Meaning

Scottish, English, German, Dutch; also found in many other cultures: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great ( 356–323 bc )—or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria ( ad c.250–326 ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames, for example Mc Allister . Alexander is a common forename in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America the form Alexander has absorbed many cases of cognate names from other languages, for example Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Greek Alexandropoulos, Russian Aleksandr, etc. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 .) It has also been adopted as a Jewish name.

Possible Related Names

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Sources (3)

  • Jimmy Alexander in household of Owens Alexander, "United States Census, 1900"
  • James Alexander, "United States Census, 1940"
  • James J Alexander, "United States Census, 1930"

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