This is an excerpt from the Society page of the New York Times on  October 16, 1904. About halfway down, you'll see that Miss Grace Coppell was to marry Walter Alexander that week.  They did indeed marry on October 18th. Several New York Times articles about this couple can be found online. Walter Alexander was my first cousin three times removed.* He was the son of William Archibald Alexander about which I posted earlier.

Walter was born in St. Charles, Missouri in 1866 and died in New York City in 1909. He attended Charles College and Smith Academy in St. Louis.  He then went to Harvard, from which he received an A. B. degree in 1887 and a law degree in 1890.  

Because both of my children were involved in crew, I was delighted to learn that Walter was stroke of his class crew team in 1886 and 1887 and stroke of the Varsity crew in 1888.  (So cool that I even know what a stroke is!)  Walter was also crew team captain in 1887 and he coached the freshman crew teams.

After Harvard, Walter moved to New York City to practice law.  In 1901, he formed a partnership with fellow Harvard grads Frederick N. Watriss and Frank L. Polk under the firm name of Alexander, Watriss and Polk (duh!).  

Walter and Grace Coppell Alexander had two sons before his death in 1909.  According to  Harvard resolution made in his honor, he died "after an illness of but two days of an abscess in the ear." 

*Walter Alexander's grandfather, William Archibald Alexander, was the son of James Harvey and Nancy McCluer Alexander and the brother of my great great grandfather, John McClure Alexander.