Alexander Dewar (1842 - 1909)

Born 25 Dec 1842 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died 30 Sep 1909 at age 66 in San Bernardino, California, United States

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Biography

Alexander Dewar was born in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, in 1842.

He immigrated to the United States in 1863, arrived in Boston, Mass., on April 15. The following year, at the age of 22, he enlisted to serve in the Civil War. He mustered in as a Private in Company C of the Massachusetts 4th Heavy Artillery on August 13, 1864. He was discharged at the end of the war, on June 17, 1865, at Fort Richardson, Virginia.

He was a resident of Bridgton, Maine, in 1868, when he petitioned to become a naturalized citizen.^[1] In 1870 he was boarding in Ossipee, New Hampshire, at the home of Luther Conway and working in a tannery.

He married Margaret Patrick in Nova Scotia in 1882.^[2] By 1894, they were living in San Bernardino, California, where he was a miner (1904) and engineer (1906).

Alexander died in California in 1909.^[3] He is buried at the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery in San Bernadino. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States, New England Petitions for Naturalization Index, 1791-1906," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VXRQ-QRG : 11 March 2018), Alexander Dewar, 1868
2. ↑ "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2LS-DKF : 10 February 2018), Alexander Dewar and Margaret J. Patrick, 25 Feb 1882
3. ↑ "California Death Index, 1905-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK91-XLYG : 8 November 2017), Alexande Dewar, 30 Sep 1909
4. ↑ FindAGrave.com, Alex Dewar, Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernadino, California

• "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NH4Q-7PF : 24 March 2016), Alexander Dewar, 1892.