- Author
- Landis, Charles Israel,
- Date of Publication
- 1914
as the "Cut-
off" was constructed to the north of
the city.
Alexander Thomson.
Alexander Thomson was born at
Scotland, in Franklin county, on Janu-
ary 12, 1788. His parents died when
he was young, and at the age of fifteen,
he was apprenticed to his uncle,
Andrew Thomson, to learn the trade
of