Alexander K. Ewing

Alexander K. Ewing

Families

Indiana--Logansport

American Civil War, 1861-1865

Ewing, Alexander Kinnear (1840-1874)

Postmasters

Soldiers

United States. Army

Captain Alexander Kinnear Ewing sits for a portrait. Ewing's parents, John W. Ewing (1814-1867) and Jane K. Ewing (1818-1887), were among the early settlers of Logansport, Indiana, in Cass County. He married Louisa Frances Harris (1844-1899) and they fathered Jennie Ewing (1868-1923) together in 1868; Jennie Ewing would eventually move from Indiana to Illinois, where she died in Springfield in 1923. Alexander Ewing served during the Civil War, rising from the rank of private to Captain in the 128th Indiana Infantry, seeing action during the Atlanta Campaign under General William Tecumseh Sherman. After the war he served as Deputy Postmaster and then Postmaster of Logansport, until his untimely death at the age of thirty-four in 1874.

Fetter's New Gallery

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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Ewing Family Collection

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