James Waddel Alexander, Sr. (1804-1859)
Biography (1884 Presbyterian Encyclopedia)


James Waddel Alexander is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey (photo credit: R. Andrew Myers).
A Geography of the Bible (1830)
On the Use and Abuse of Systematic Theology (1832)
Considerations on Foreign Missions: Addressed to Candidates for the Holy Ministry (1832)
Charles Clifford; or, The Children at River Bank (1834)
Hebrew Customs; or, The Missionary’s Return (1834)
Review of “The Music of Nature” by William Gardiner (1838)
Review of Samuel Bayard’s Letters on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (1840)
Letters to a Very Young Lady (1843)
Good - Better - Best; or, The Three Ways of Making a Happy World (1844)
Memoir of the Rev. James Waddel (1844, 1880)
Thoughts on Family Worship (1847)
The American Mechanic and Working Man (1847)
Frank Harper; or, The Country-Boy in Town (1847)
The History of Catechizing (1849)
Carl, the Young Emigrant: A Memoir of Schools and Schoolmasters (1851)
The Life of Archibald Alexander (1854)
Plain Words to a Young Communicant (1854)
The Merchant's Clerk Cheered and Counseled (1856)
The American Sunday-School and Its Adjuncts (1856)
Discourses on Common Topics of Christian Faith and Practice (1858)
The Revival and Its Lessons (1859)
Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (originally published in 1860)
The Breaking Crucible; and Other Translations of German Hymns (1861)
Faith: Treated in a Series of Discourses (1863)
Truth In the Heart and Other Stories (1866)
School-Boy Heroes: The Story of Maurice Gray and Carl Adler (1872)