His parents divorced when he was young and, later after his death, she remarried to H. Otto Wittpenn, the 28th Mayor of Jersey City, on January 6, 1915.
[7] In July 1912, Alexander and three others, including David S. Crater (Secretary of State of New Jersey), and two members of the Democratic National Committee, left their handbags in Gov.
[8] At the time of his death, Col. Alexander was campaigning to become the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Congress from New Jersey's 11th congressional district which then included Hoboken.
[11] Among her extended family were maternal uncle William Collins Whitney and paternal grandfather Ashbel H. Barney, an early president of Wells Fargo & Company.
Before his early death, they lived at Castle Point and were the parents of: After an illness of two weeks, Alexander died of typhoid fever on August 30, 1912, aged 32, at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City.