10 Facts About Archibald Alexander

Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

Archibald Alexander was raised under the tuition and ministry of Presbyterian minister William Graham, a man who had been trained in theology by John Witherspoon.

Archibald Alexander's nephew was the American novelist William Alexander Caruthers.

At the age of ten Archibald was sent to the academy of William Graham at Timber Ridge meetinghouse, at Lexington.

The Princeton Theological Seminary was established at Princeton, New Jersey in 1812 and Archibald Alexander was appointed its first professor, inaugurated on August 12,1812.

Archibald Alexander was one of the earliest supporters of the American Colonization Society that arranged the emigration of free Black and enslaved Black Americans to Liberia.

Archibald Alexander later served as the Colonization Society's vice president and wrote the most comprehensive history of the movement written before the twentieth century, A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa.

Archibald Alexander died on October 22,1851, at Princeton Township, New Jersey.

Archibald Alexander's grandson, William C Alexander, was an executive with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, author, and founder of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Archibald Alexander's great-grandson, James Waddell Alexander II, was a noted mathematician and topologist.