Alexander Ramsey (Dickinson Chronicles)
Scholarship
John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., "Alexander Ramsey," Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/r/ed_ramseyA.htm.
Alexander Ramsey was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on September 8, 1815, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Kelker Ramsey. He was educated locally and then attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Entering the Law Department of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1839, he earned a bachelor of laws degree in 1840. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and opened a practice in Harrisburg.