Jane Cynthelia Alexander was originally affianced by her father, Gen. Milton King Alexander to famed politician Stephen A. Douglas who, along with Abraham Lincoln, were friends of M. K. Alexander, staying in the Alexander home when they visited Paris, IL. Jane chose instead to marry Dr. John Tenbrook of Paris, IL.
SEE: "Frequent Visitor in Paris" by Lucy Alexander Lamon
in "Memoirs of Abraham Lincoln in Edgar County, Illinois."
[Paris, Ill.] : Edgar County Historical Society, 1925, pgs 17-18.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006947151
SEE also: "A family tale of love and a runaway bride. Milton Alexander's daughter turns nose up at Douglas". Danny Briseno, The Prairie Press, Paris-Bacon News July 10, 2017
https://prairiepress.net/stories/a-family-tale-of-love-and-a-runaway-bride,6047
Note: The Tenbrook name was the Anglicized spelling of the Dutch surname originally spelled Tenbroeck or Tenbroecke, from the Dutch words 'ten broecke' i.e. from the brook.
SEE: "Frequent Visitor in Paris" by Lucy Alexander Lamon
in "Memoirs of Abraham Lincoln in Edgar County, Illinois."
[Paris, Ill.] : Edgar County Historical Society, 1925, pgs 17-18.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006947151
SEE also: "A family tale of love and a runaway bride. Milton Alexander's daughter turns nose up at Douglas". Danny Briseno, The Prairie Press, Paris-Bacon News July 10, 2017
https://prairiepress.net/stories/a-family-tale-of-love-and-a-runaway-bride,6047
Note: The Tenbrook name was the Anglicized spelling of the Dutch surname originally spelled Tenbroeck or Tenbroecke, from the Dutch words 'ten broecke' i.e. from the brook.
Jane Cynthelia Alexander was originally affianced by her father, Gen. Milton King Alexander to famed politician Stephen A. Douglas who, along with Abraham Lincoln, were friends of M. K. Alexander, staying in the Alexander home when they visited Paris, IL. Jane chose instead to marry Dr. John Tenbrook of Paris, IL.
SEE: "Frequent Visitor in Paris" by Lucy Alexander Lamon
in "Memoirs of Abraham Lincoln in Edgar County, Illinois."
[Paris, Ill.] : Edgar County Historical Society, 1925, pgs 17-18.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006947151
SEE also: "A family tale of love and a runaway bride. Milton Alexander's daughter turns nose up at Douglas". Danny Briseno, The Prairie Press, Paris-Bacon News July 10, 2017
https://prairiepress.net/stories/a-family-tale-of-love-and-a-runaway-bride,6047
Note: The Tenbrook name was the Anglicized spelling of the Dutch surname originally spelled Tenbroeck or Tenbroecke, from the Dutch words 'ten broecke' i.e. from the brook.
SEE: "Frequent Visitor in Paris" by Lucy Alexander Lamon
in "Memoirs of Abraham Lincoln in Edgar County, Illinois."
[Paris, Ill.] : Edgar County Historical Society, 1925, pgs 17-18.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006947151
SEE also: "A family tale of love and a runaway bride. Milton Alexander's daughter turns nose up at Douglas". Danny Briseno, The Prairie Press, Paris-Bacon News July 10, 2017
https://prairiepress.net/stories/a-family-tale-of-love-and-a-runaway-bride,6047
Note: The Tenbrook name was the Anglicized spelling of the Dutch surname originally spelled Tenbroeck or Tenbroecke, from the Dutch words 'ten broecke' i.e. from the brook.
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