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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 486]

     ALEXANDER FRASER, dealer in grain and live-stock, Aurelia, was born
     in Dodge County, Wisconsin, November 19, 1848.  His parents, JAMES
     and ISABEL (MCMILLEN) FRASER, were both born in Nova Scotia; they
     settled in Wisconsin as early as 1843, and in 1859 removed to
     McGregor, Iowa, where they made their home until 1887; at that time
     they went to Peterson, Clay County, Iowa, where the father passed
     the remainder of his days, his death occurring December 24, 1888,
     at the age of sixty-seven years.  His widow still makes her home
     at Peterson.  The family consisted of nine sons, of whom ALEX was
     the third.  They are: HUGH, WILLIAM, JAMES, JACOB, JOHN, CHARLES,
     GEORGE and HENRY.  ALEXANDER was educated in the common schools,
     and in the Upper Iowa University, at Fayette.  He came to Cherokee
     County in 1871, his brothers HUGH and WILLIAM having taken home-
     steads there in 1869.  He first bought 160 acres of land one and
     a half miles south of Aurelia, which he farmed for four years,
     when he removed to Aurelia and engaged in the grain and live-stock
     business.  He is one of the most extensive shippers of grain and
     live-stock in the county, his annual shipments running from seventy-
     five to 100 car-loads.  He is also interested with his brother JOHN
     in the grain business at Calumet, Iowa.  Mr. FRASER has two fine
     farms in Pitcher Township; one is located one and a half miles south
     of Aurelia, and contains 240 acres; the other is four miles southeast
     of Aurelia, and contains 360 acres.  This latter place he devotes to
     stock-growing.  He has at different times handled real estate, dealing
     mainly in farm property.  In 1884 the Farmers and Merchants' Bank was
     organized with Mr. FRASER as vice president, which office he held
     until he disposed of his interest in the business at the end of one
     year.  Politically Mr. FRASER is identified with the Republican party,
     and has held several village and township offices.  He is a member of
     the Masonic fraternity, including Burning Bush Chapter, No. 90,
     R.A.M., and Crusade Commandery, No. 39, K.T.  Mr. FRASER was married
     at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, November 14, 1869, to Miss MARY F.
     McWILLIAMS, a native of the State of Pennsylvania.  Five children
     have been born of this marriage: ZELDA, ARTHUR, GILBERT, EARL and
     AVO.


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