Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Alexander Turner PAXSON
ALEXANDER TURNER PAXSON and his wife, Helen, first settled in Coatesville, PA. He was a handsome, ambitious and hard-working man. He learned carpentry under Tom Ash of Coatesville and became a contractor there. Later they went to Manchester, VA near Richmond, where Alexander and his friend, Val Patton, ran a grocery store. Here he erected a large house in the country for his family and built post offices in Manchester, Culver, IN and Greenville, IL. He suspected the contractor was dishonest, so he resigned and they moved back to Pennsylvania. In Newtown he built a house like the one in VA and two others. He tried selling real estate but then moved to Churchville, PA to care for Helen's aging parents. To help with expenses, he gave demonstrations for Wear Ever Aluminum. The pastor urged him to become a minister, so he entered New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1916, graduating in 1919. he was Reverend Paxson for the Presbyterians in Kerhonkson, NY, Spotswood, NJ, LIsha's Kill, NY and Preakness, NJ. He served as President of the Men's Bible Class, and was active in the Y.M.C.A.
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