Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Duncan, Alexander C. January 25, 1846 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 430
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Alexander C Duncan was born in Butler county, Penna, January 25, 1846.
His maternal grandfather, Enos Graham, was a native of Scotland, came to
America at the beginning of the eighteenth century and settled in Butler
county, Penna.
    His paternal grandfather, Samuel Duncan, was of Scotch descent, born
in Allegheny county near Pittsburgh, and was married to Nancy Smith, a
native also of Allegheny county, Penna.
    A C Duncan's father, Robert Duncan, was born in Butler county,
Penna, in 1813 and was a farmer.  He married Miss Julia A Graham and had nine
children: William Duncan; Enos G Duncan, a resident of Greenfield, Iowa;
Isaiah M Duncan, a farmer of Butler county, Penna; Beriah M Duncan,
president of the board of county commissioners of Butler county;
Alexander C Duncan; Pressly Duncan, a plasterer, and a resident of Mars,
Butler county; Robert Duncan, a farmer of Butler county; Nancy Duncan,
married to John W McCaw of Allegheny county, Penna; and Julia A Duncan,
married to John A Wilson, a coal merchant of Allegheny City.
    Alexander C Duncan is the fifth son of his parents; he was educated
in the common schools of Butler county, and with four of his brothers he
served in the army during the Civil War.  Enos G Duncan, Isaiah N Duncan
and Beriah Duncan were volunteers in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty
Fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, enlisting in 1862 and serving
for nine months.  At the end of that time they enlisted as veterans in
Company G, Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry and served till the close of the
war.  William Duncan volunteered in the spring of 1864 in the Seventy
Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.  Alexander C Duncan volunteered
in the summer of 1864 in Company B, One Hundred and Ninety Third
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.  He took part in a skirmish in York
county, Penna, and was in some others.  After the war he returned home and
lived with his parents till 1871.
    In 1871 he was married to Miss Mary C Graham, daughter of William J
Graham, a native of Butler county.  They had the following children: Clara
E Duncan, a telephone operator in the employ of the B & O R R Co at
Uniontown; Nancy E Duncan and Allen Ward Duncan.  His wife died October
31, 1879.  He was the second time married in June, 1881, to Emma Stroud,
daughter of William Stroud of Dunbar.  Two children were born by this
wife: Alexander R Duncan and Edna W Duncan.
    Alexander C Duncan left the farm and engaged in the mercantile business
at Ogle, Butler county, in 1875 and continued till 1879.  Shortly after
this time he came to Dunbar and entered into the general merchandising
business under the firm name of Duncan & Beers, and continued for about
one year.  After this he engaged as business manager with various coke
firms, working for the Pittsburgh Manufacturing, Mining & Supply Company
and others.
    A C Duncan was elected burgess and justice of the peace for the borough
of Dunbar in the spring of 1889.  He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Jr
O U A M, and of the Grand Army of the Republic.  He is a vice regent in
the lodge of Royal Arcanum.

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