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- Alexander was a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War. He studied at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. All his brothers were either in the Confederate Forces, or held Confederate sympathy. He was a doctor in Knoxville and the first president of the East Tennessee Medical Society, organized in 1871. In an article published by Platt and Ogden in the Journal of the Tennessee State Medical Association (Vol 50, no. 3, March 1957), Alexander was credited with being the first physician in the world to discover the germ-carrying power of the common house fly. In 1873, during a Cholera epidemic in Greenville, Tennessee, he made this discovery while tending to the sick. During his lifetime, Alexander occupied lecture chairs in Cincinnati, Ohio and Knoxville, Tennessee.
Alexander and his wife Clara married on July 4, 1865 in McLean Co., Illinois. They had only one child, Thomas Lewis Tadlock, who died within a month of his birth in 1866.
Alexander bequeathed money from his estate to each of his living brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews; $5,000 to the Provident Presbyterian Church, near Limestone, Tennessee, because it was the church his parents attended along with another $5000 for the upkeep of his parent's graves; balance of the estate be given to Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee.
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