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Alexander Irvine (c. 1797 - ?) was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Irvine was born in Scotland, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager, with two of his brothers, and his sister. There he converted to Methodism. Around 1820, the family emigrated to Sidney township, Upper Canada.[1] There Irvine married another American immigrant, with whom he had two children by 1822, at which point the family moved to upstate New York.[2]
Irvine was accepted on trial as a circuit rider by the Genesee conference in 1822.[1]
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- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.