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Rev. Alexander McDowell

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Name Alexander McDowell [1] Prefix Rev. Birth 1721 Gleno, Raloo, Antrim, Ireland Gender Male Death 13 Jan 1782 [2] Burial Stone Graveyard, Lewisville, Chester, Pennsylvania [2]
Person ID I20526 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 22 Nov 2020
Father John McDowell, b. Ulster, Ireland d. 14 Dec 1742, Virginia
Family ID F13862 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ann Craighead, b. 1 Jul 1725, White Clay Creek, New Castle, Delaware bur. Stone Graveyard, Lewisville, Chester, Pennsylvania
Children + 1. Dr. John McDowell, b. 1750, Cecil County, Maryland d. 1 Jan 1825, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio
(Age 75 years)
Family ID F12337 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Dec 2018
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Notes - "John had a son Alexander, who became an eminent Presbyterian clergyman. He was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and prepared for the ministry at the University of Edinburg, Scotland. He was pastor of Rock congregation in Cecil county, Maryland; principal of the classical academy, afterwards Delaware College, Newark, Delaware." ["The McDowell Family," citation details below.]
"He was Principal of New London Academy, Pa., 1752. It was removed by him first to Elkton, Md., and then to Newark, Del. Rev. Matthew Wilson was associated with him in 1754, and it was chartered in 1769 by the Proprietary, John Penn. It flourished for many years, and finally formed the basis on which Delaware College was established." [The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir, citation details below.]
- "John had a son Alexander, who became an eminent Presbyterian clergyman. He was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and prepared for the ministry at the University of Edinburg, Scotland. He was pastor of Rock congregation in Cecil county, Maryland; principal of the classical academy, afterwards Delaware College, Newark, Delaware." ["The McDowell Family," citation details below.]
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Sources - [S2650] The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead, 1658-1876 by James Geddes Craighead. Philadelphia, 1876.
- [S2988] "The McDowell Family." Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume, 1899, ed. William Henry Egle. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1900.
- [S2650] The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead, 1658-1876 by James Geddes Craighead. Philadelphia, 1876.