(fl. late 19th century), newspaperman. Born presumably in GC. Parents: Mr and Mrs Angus Macpherson. Alexander is listed in the directories for Waterloo County and Berlin, Ont., from 1867 to 1895. He was associated for many years, as editor and publisher, with the Telegraph, or Berlin Telegraph, a weekly newspaper in the Ontario town then known as Berlin and now known as Kitchener. In 1893 the Telegraph was changed into a daily. The daily version proved short-lived, and the newspaper was sold, but Macpherson continued to publish a weekly edition of the newspaper under the old Telegraph name. No information has been discovered about his later years.

     His partner in publishing the Telegraph was for many years the Glasgow-born Dougall McDougall (1828-1894), who was never a GC resident so far as is known, but who spent some period of his boyhood “on the banks of the Chateauguay river,” therefore in a portion of Quebec which has many associations with GC. McDougall, a political ally of John Sandfield Macdonald, was registrar of Waterloo County from 1864, and, through the marriage of his sister to a soldier, John King, became the great-uncle of Mackenzie King, and was himself at one time the occupant of the King home, the historic Woodside in Kitchener. Macpherson was a pallbearer at McDougall’s funeral.

Annual Volumes of Waterloo Historical Society, 1921 p. 154, 1930 p. 202 * death of his brother J. A. C. Macpherson, 40 Years Ago note, Cornwall Freeholder 2 Dec. 1910; Fraser, Gravestones, II, 243 * death of Alexander’s 9-year-old son, Berliner Journal, 3 Nov. 1881 * article by by Donald Williamson on hist. of Kitchener newspapers, London Free Press 4 July 1964 * Dougall McDougall: biog., Rose, i, 145-147 (QF); obituary Daily Record (Berlin, Ont.) 31 Aug. 1894; Murray W. Nicolson, Woodside and the Victorian Family of John King (Parks Canada, 1984)