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Exterior of the Alexander Ramsey House. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever, March 2, 2015. CC BY-SA 4.0.
The tombstone of Minnesota governor Alexander Ramsey and his wife, Anna Earl Ramsey, in St. Paul’s Oakland Cemetery. Photographed by Paul Nelson on April 20, 2014.
Alexander Ramsey, ca. 1874. Photograph by Charles Milton Bell.
Colonel Alexander Wilkin, c.1863.
Alexis J. Fournier painting "Summer Skies," c.1947.
Alexis Jean Fournier c.1930.
Alexis Jean Fournier (on right), with English writer Richard LaGallienne, 1908.
Alexis Jean Fournier with painter's palette, c. 1930.
Alfred Merritt, and his wife Jane, c.1900. While Leonidas led the mining operation, it was Alfred that brought suit against John D. Rockefeller.
General Alfred H. Sully (here as a colonel, c. 1862) commanded the Northwest Indian Expeditions of 1864 and 1865.