Alexander Holston

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2019-06-03 14:03
Text: 
The Reivers
Character Key: 
Alexander Holston
Display Name: 
Alexander Holston
Sort Name: 
Holston, Alexander
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Dead
First Mentioned: 
Jefferson Livery Stable in The Reivers (Location)
Other Texts: 
"A Name for the City"
"Hand Upon the Waters"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
Intruder in the Dust
Requiem for a Nun
The Mansion
The Town
Biography: 

Alexander Holston appears in several Yoknapatawpha texts as one of the first three white men who "crossed the mountains from Virginia and Carolina after the Revolution and came down into Mississippi in the seventeen-nineties and established Jefferson and named it" (7). His name survives in 20th century Jefferson in the Holston House.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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