This is a transcription of the Jane Grace Alexander biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 199.
Jane Grace Alexander
JANE GRACE ALEXANDER, daughter of Edward and Lucy (Capron) Alexander, and direct descendent, in the fourth generation, of Reuben Alexander, who was a Captain in Colonel Ashley’s regiment, which marched to Ticonderoga in October, 1776, was born in Winchester, October 26, 1848. She received her education in her native town, and was a successful teacher for several years. Early in life she commenced keeping books in her father’s office and, later on, was active in the management of his business. She entered the Winchester National Bank as general assistant, in 1871, but soon after assumed the duties of assistant cashier, which position she has filled for twenty-two years. So fully did she win the confidence of the people, by her integrity, capacity, and good sense, that in 1881 she was elected treasurer of the Security-Savings Bank of Winchester, which office she now holds, and is believed to be the first woman to occupy this responsible position. Miss Alexander bears the burdens of a man, yet is as broad and charitable in her ideas as the best of women, true as steel in her friendships, and allows no small gossip to interfere with her work or her life. She is a member of the Universalist church, ever ready to sustain and support its interests with her sympathy and generous aid. She has been superintendent of the Sunday-school fifteen years, and considers it her best and happiest field of labor. She is also treasurer of the school district, trustee of the public library, and first Worthy Matron of Electra chapter, No. 19, 0. E. S. Her home is one of the landmarks of Winchester, a large white manor house, in the colonial style, set many rods back from the street, and noticeable for its antiquities, its avenue of fine maples, and its beautiful deep lawn. Miss Alexander is devoted to the interests of her home and spares neither time nor money in the preservation of the homestead, of which she is justly proud.