New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . character and standing in the community tliere are notwo opinions. Mr. Mitchell has been engaged in manyimportant and prominent jjatent litigations during histwenty years praciice in the U. S. Courts, and as a patentlawyer he has few equals. ROBERT C. ALEXANDER. Robert Carter Alexander was born thirty-four yearsago at West Charlton, Saratoga County, New York, ofScotch parentage. He worked on his fathers farm tillseventeen years of age. In 1876 he entered Union Collegeand was graduated in 1880 in the classical ( ourse at theh
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . character and standing in the community tliere are notwo opinions. Mr. Mitchell has been engaged in manyimportant and prominent jjatent litigations during histwenty years praciice in the U. S. Courts, and as a patentlawyer he has few equals. ROBERT C. ALEXANDER. Robert Carter Alexander was born thirty-four yearsago at West Charlton, Saratoga County, New York, ofScotch parentage. He worked on his fathers farm tillseventeen years of age. In 1876 he entered Union Collegeand was graduated in 1880 in the classical ( ourse at thehead of his class. He took one of the prizes at the Sophomore PrizeSpeaking Contest, and at graduation took the first Blatch-ford oratorical prize and the Ingham essay i)rize. He wasalso first on the list of Phi Beta Kapjja members electedfrom the class. He was elected president of the class in1880 in the Senior year, and held the office till 1890, whenhe declined a unanimous re-election. At the decennialreunion of !iis class in June, 1890, he was jiresented by his. ROBERT C. ALRXANDKR. classmates with a gold watch and chain carrying a unicjuependant in massive gold, re|)resenting the Chinese idolwhich stands on the college camjjus. After graduation Mr. Alexander attended the law depart-ment of Union University at Albany and was graduated in1881 with the degree of , being admitted to the Barthe same yea -. Iwo years later Union gave him the degreeof Master of .Arts. Shortly after he entered the hnv officeof Lucius and 1). C. Robinson, at I-lmira, N. Y., becoming,a year later, managing clerk of the firm. In 1884 he cameto New York and engaged in the ])ractice of his ]) to 1888 he had become the personal counsel toCol. Klliott F. She|)ard, and on the i)urchase by the latterof the New Nork Afail atui /•..\f>rcss became the attorneyfor that newsi)a|tcr and one of the directors and the Secre- tary of the Mai/ and Express Publishing Company. He wassubsetiue
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