Physician
Centurion, 1909–1910
Born 2 April 1858 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 29 November 1910 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Princeton Cemetery
, Princeton, New Jersey
Proposed by Austin Flint Jr. and Charles L. Gibson
Elected 6 November 1909 at age fifty-one
Century Memorial
Samuel Alexander was a member of The Century for one short year. He was born in New York in 1858 of the well-known family whose name he bore. He was graduated from Princeton in 1879 and from Bellevue in 1882. The year 1883 he spent in study in Leipzig, London, and Vienna. Returning to New York, he was made Attending Surgeon in Bellevue, and he maintained his connection with it throughout his life. He became Professor of Genitourinary Surgery in 1887 and Professor of Clinical Surgery in Cornell Medical College in 1898. He was widely known as a surgeon and writer on medical subjects.
Unmarried, he was devoted to his mother, never unmindful of her comfort, unremitting in attention. He was a man of fine impulses, giving his skill and time in unstinted measure to the poor and to the most neglected classes of the community, and with his friends he was the life of the circle, witty, convivial, vivacious, the most companionable of men.
George William Knox
1911 Century Association Yearbook