BIO: Alexander T. FORSYTH, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 256-269.
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  ALEXANDER T. FORSYTH, a prominent citizen of the borough of Baden, Beaver
  county, Pa., is a contractor of wide reputation, and has built many of the
  principal buildings in that section of the county. He was born in Allegheny
  county, Pa., in 1829, and received the ordinary instruction of the public
  schools.
  
  Although his educational advantages were limited, he made the best of his
  opportunities, and has acquired a good degree of practical knowledge by close
  observation and reading. He was taken from school at an early age to learn a
  trade, but continued to learn what he could in private. There were six
  children in the family, and they all studied out of the same old arithmetic.
  He adopted farming and followed that line of work until he reached his
  twentieth year, when he learned the trade of a carpenter, which he followed
  until 1852. He then removed to Beaver county, and subsequently to Wheeling,
  West Virginia, where he worked in a sash and door factory until 1861. Owing
  to the central situation of Wheeling, there was a division of sentiment on
  the war question, which resulted in a depressing effect on all kinds of
  business. He then began contracting for himself at Baden, Beaver county, Pa.,
  and has since been one of the most prominent men of that place. His first
  contract was to build the Lutheran church, in which he has always been a most
  earnest worker, and he has since had the contracting of all the principal
  buildings in that locality. He recently completed a church in Braddock, Pa.,
  and now has a school building in course of construction at Remington, Pa. He
  is also agent for Dr. Daly, of Pittsburg, and has the management of his real
  estate interests in this district. He has always been a popular citizen of
  the borough, and served in the first council after its incorporation. He has
  since served as school director and councilman, and was burgess for four
  years. He was then elected justice of the peace, an office he is now filling
  for his third term. He has always given good satisfaction in this capacity,
  his aim being rather to keep people from litigation than to increase his own
  revenues by promoting it. That his policy is appreciated was forcibly
  demonstrated at the last election. He ran on the Democratic ticket, and out
  of a voting list of 100, he only received an opposing vote of seven. This is
  all the more remarkable when the fact is taken into consideration that the
  county is strongly Republican.
  
  Mr. Forsyth was united in marriage with Sarah J. Romigh, and they became the
  parents of three children, namely: James F., a foreman in the tin-plate mill;
  William Taylor, now working in the oil fields; and Walter A.
  
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  who is with Jones & Company, of Pittsburg. Mrs. Forsyth died on her
  thirty-eighth birthday, and the subject of our sketch subsequently formed a
  second union, with Mary J. Sickles, to whom have been born three children:
  George, weigh master in the tin-plate mills; Alma; and Margaret. Mr. Forsyth
  is a very active member of the Lutheran church and for thirty-seven years was
  superintendent of the Sunday School. He is also a deacon of the church.