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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]

  1. ^ a b Carroll, volume II, page 392
  2. ^ Carroll, volume II, page 393