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ALEXANDER E. TRICH, contractor, McKeesport, was born in Somerset, Pa., Oct. 9, 1820, a son of John and Elizabeth (Gordon) Trich, natives of Philadelphia, and early settlers of Somerset county. He came to McKeesport in 1836, and learned the carpenter’s trade, which he followed twenty-five years, and for twenty-five years since has done business as a contractor and builder and a raiser and mover of buildings. He served in the civil war, enlisting in September, 1861, in Co. I, 63d P. V.; re-enlisted, and was transferred to the 105th regiment. He received a shell-wound in his right leg, below the knee, in front of Petersburg, and was honorably discharged in June, 1865, at Beverly hospital, near Philadelphia. He married, in 1840, Ann E., daughter of Vincent and Elizabeth (Kirkland) Neville, of McKeesport, by whom he had the following children: William (deceased), John, Lizzie (Mrs. William Small), Marion, Albert, Emma (Mrs. John Lanning) and Frank. Mr. Trich has been a member of the Baptist Church forty years; is a member of the G. A. R.; has served one term in McKeesport council, and is a republican.