1836.
ASA GILES ALEXANDER died at Smyrna, Asia Minor, May 6th, 1865, aged 50 years. He was the eldest son of Asa and Nancy T. Alexander, and was born in Killingly, Conn, Aug. 30, 1814. For some time after his graduation, he was a teacher of modern languages in Providence, R.I., and in this occupation his life was mostly spent. He had an unusual facility for the acquisition of languages, and his acquaintance extended, it is said, at the time of his death, to more than thirty, ancient and modern. He resided some years m the East, and was at one time professor in a French College in Smyrna. In September. 1864, he visited Athens for the third time, and was there engaged in teaching, when his health failed him, and he set out for borne, but lived only to reach Smyrna.
He was married in the East to a Greek lady.
