The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alexander, Eben

ALEXANDER, Eben, diplomat, was born in Knoxville, Tenn., March 9, 1851, son of Ebenezer and Margaret White (McClurg) Alexander. He was graduated at Yale in 1873; was instructor and professor of ancient languages in Tennessee University 1873-'86; chairman of the faculty 1885-'86, and president of the State Teachers' association in 1886. He was professor of Greek in the University of North Carolina 1886-'93, and from 1897, and U. S. minister to Greece, Roumania and Servia, 1893-'97. He married, Oct. 15, 1874, Marion Howard-Smith. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Maryville college in 1886, and that of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1893, and was an instructor in the Summer school of the South in June and July, 1902.