Alexander James Grant

Full Name:

Alexander 
James 
Grant

Date of Birth:

August, 
20, 
1889

Place of Birth:

Heatherton, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia

Antigonish District:

Beauly/Caledonia Mills

Service Rank or Number:

Location of Enlistment:

Theatres of Service:

Conflicts:

First World War

Rank on Retirement or Discharge:

Private

Biography

Alexander James Grant was born in Heatherton, August 20, 1889. He was the son of James Grant and Flora Florbes. Grant lived with his family in Beauly, Antigonish County between 1892 and 1895.  Grant moved to the United States  in 1909 to work as a lineman in Boston, Massachusetts. He became an American citizen on September 25, 1916.

Grant served in the First World War with the American Expeditionary Force. Prior to enlistment he worked as a lineman for New England Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Following the war, Grant continued to work as a lineman in Boston. In 1921, he married Mary Cameron of Springfield, Antigonish County. By 1930, they were living in the Roslindale neighbourhood of Boston where Grant worked as an installation foreman for a telephone company and Mary Cameron worked as a community health nurse.

Grant died Novemeber 11, 1940. He is buried in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Additional Media

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Alexander Grant's Draft Registration Card — Courtesy of Ancestry.ca
Grant's U.S. Naturalization Index Record — Courtesy of Ancestry.ca
Grant's Obituary, The Boston Globe, November 12, 1940, p. 29 — Courtesy of Newspapers.com
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Roxbury, Massachusetts — Courtesy of Find A Grave

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