Colonel Alexander Frederick Fleet, Sr., CSA

Colonel Alexander Frederick Fleet, Sr.

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 154131077

He was one of the Founders of the:

• Order of Runnemede,
• Missouri Society of Colonial Wars (and Governor)
• Missouri Society of Sons of the Revolution (Historian)

Educated University of Virginia

Professor of Greek at Missouri State University, Founder of Missouri Military Academy, Superintendent of Culver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana from 1896-1910

He joined the Confederate Army in 1861, serving as a Bvt 2 lieutenant and aide-de- Assistant Adjutant-General in Gen. Henry A. Wise's Brigade, C.S.A He was present at Gen. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV

FLEET, Alexander Frederick, educator, was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, in 1843; son of Dr. Benjamin and Maria Louisa (Walker) Fleet. His father, Dr. Benjamin Fleet, born January 25, 1818, and died March 8, 1865, was a physician and magistrate in King and Queen County, State of Virginia.

His first ancestor in America was Captain Henry Fleet, who came to Virginia about 1621, and was a member of the Maryland legislature and of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

He received his education at Fleetwood and Aberdeen academies, Virginia, and at the University of Virginia, which he left in 1861 to enter the military service of the Confederate states. He remained in the service throughout the entire period of the war, and at its close he returned to the university, where he studied, 1865-67.

He was a teacher at Kenmore School, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1867-68; and had charge of the department of Greek in the William Jewell College 1868-73. He also served as chairman of the faculty. He was president of the Baptist Female College at Lexington, Missouri, 1873-79; was professor of Greek in the Missouri state university, Columbia, Missouri, 1879-90, and in 1890 founded and became superintendent of the Missouri Military Academy at Mexico, Missouri. In 1891 he was president of the Missouri state teachers' association.

In 1896, upon the destruction by fire of the Missouri Military Academy, he transferred his school to Culver, Indiana, and united with the Culver Military Academy, of which he had twice been superintendent. This school in 1900 had an enrollment of 220 cadets.

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles

• Name: Alexander Frederick Fleet
• Occupation: Student
• Age at enlistment: 18
• Enlistment Date: 13 Jun 1861
• Rank at enlistment: 1st Sergt
• Enlistment Place: Clarkson, Virginia
• State Served: Virginia
• Survived the War?: Yes
• Service Record: Enlisted in Company I, Virginia 26th Infantry Regiment on 13 Jun 1861.
• Promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on 13 May 1862
• Born: Date: abt 1843
• Sources: The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

Alexander Frederick Fleet-"Fred" to his family and friends-was a precocious youth of seventeen and a student at the University of Virginia in the fall of 1860. Southern Invincibility: A History of the Confederate Heart Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st edition (October 1999) Wiley Sword

The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Missouri

CHARTER MEMBERS SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI: 

2. ALEXANDER FREDERICK FLEET

Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Indiana

CHARTERED 26 MAY 1903 

Number Indiana Warrior Gen Soc Ancestor 

5 Col. Alexander Frederick Fleet, LLD 0402 Robert Brooke 

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE GENERAL REGISTER OF THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS A.D. 1906 PUBLISHED BY DIRECTION OF

THE GENERAL COUNCIL BOSTON 1906 

GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL...Col. A. F. Fleet,

1850; Census Place: St Stephens Parish, King and Queen, Virginia; Roll: M432_954; Page: 188A; Image: 377

• Name: A Frederick Flett
• Age: 7
• Estimated born: year: abt 1843
• Born: Place: Virginia
• Gender: Male
• Home in 1850 (City,County,State): St Stephens Parish, King and Queen, Virginia
• Family Number: 656
• Household Members: Name Age
• Dock Benjamin Flett 32
• Maria Louisa Flett 28
• A Frederick Flett 7
• Benjamin Robert Flett 4
• Maria Louisa Flett 2

1860; Census Place: , King and Queen, Virginia; Roll: M653_1357; Page: 456; Image: 36; Family History Library Film: 805357

• Name: Frederick Fleet
• Age in 1860: 17
• Born: Year: abt 1843
• Born:place: Virginia
• Home in 1860: King and Queen, Virginia
• Gender: Male
• Value of real estate: View image
• Household Members: Name Age
• Benja Fleet 42
• Maria L Fleet 37
• Frederick Fleet 17
• Benjamin R Fleet 13
• Maria L Fleet 11
• David W Fleet 9
• Fronen Fleet 7
• Bessey Fleet 5
• James W Fleet 4
• Margarett Dunn 47

1860; Census Place: , Stafford, Virginia; Roll: M653_1375; Page: 948; Image: 418; 

• Name: Belle Seddon
• Age in 1860: 8
• Born: Year: abt 1852
• Born:place: Virginia
• Home in 1860: Stafford, Virginia
• Gender: Female
• Post Office: Stafford Court House
• Value of real estate: View image
• Household Members: Name Age
• Jno Seddon 33
• Mary A Seddon 33
• Thos A Seddon 10
• Belle Seddon 8
• John P Seddon 6
• James A Seddon 4
• Susan P Seddon 1
• Ann Hamilton 67

1870; Census Place: Falmouth, Stafford, Virginia; Roll: M593_1680; Page: 37B; Image: 78; Family History Library Film: 553179.

* Name: Arabella Seddon 

• Born: Year: abt 1852
• Age in 1870: 18
• Born:place: Virginia
• Home in 1870: Falmouth, Stafford, Virginia
• Race: White
• Gender: Female
• Post Office: Falmouth
• Household Members: Name Age
• Mary A Seddon 43
• Arabella Seddon 18 John P Seddon 16
• James A Seddon 14
• William L Seddon 7
• Rose Rankins 60
• Harrett Roberson 60
• Elizabeth Rollins 23
• Susan Rollins 14
• Ellen Lewis 10

Name: A. F. Fleet City: Lexington State: Virginia Date: 1873 

Excerpts from 1877 Atlas of Lafayette County, Missouri Township 51 North Range 27 West

1880; Census Place: Columbia, Boone, Missouri; Roll: 676; Family History Film: 1254676; Page: 159A; Enumeration District: 16;

• A. F. Fleet 37
• B. S. Fleet 28
• Minnie S. Fleet 7
• B. S. Fleet 4
• J. S. Fleet 2
• H. W. Fleet 5 m
• M. A. Seddon 55 Mother-in-Law
• Lucinda Adkins 56 servant
• Fannie Adkins 28 servant
• Felix Adkins 15 servant

U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 

• Name: Alexander F Fleet
• Born: Date: 6 Jun 1843
• Born: Place: County of King & Queen, Virginia
• Passport Issue Date: 16 May 1887
• Passport Includes a Photo: N
• Source: Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372)

Year: 1900; Census Place: Union, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: T623_392; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 82.

• Alexander F Fleet 56 Jun 1843 Virginia
• Belle S Fleet 48 Dec 1851
• Mary S Gignilliat 26 Jan 1874 Missouri Daughter
• John S Fleet 22 May 1878 Missouri
• Henry W Fleet 20 Feb 1880 Missouri
• William A Fleet 16 Oct 1883 Missouri
• Charles P Fleet 12 May 1888 Virginia
• Reginald S Fleet 4 Aug 1895 Missouri
• Leigh R Gignilliat 1 May 1899 Indiana Grandson
• Leigh R Gignilliat 26 Jul 1873 Son-in-Law
• Mary A Seddon 72 Mother-in-Law

Year: 1910; Census Place: Union, Marshall, Indiana; Roll: T624_370; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 114;

• A F Col Fleet 67
• Bellle S Fleet 58
• Charles P Fleet 21
• Reginald S Fleet 14

Year: 1920;Census Place: Atlanta Ward 8, Fulton, Georgia; Roll: T625_253; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 134; Image: 298.

• Belle S Fleet 68
• Reginald S Fleet 24

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Year: 1890; Census Place: Columbia, Boone, Missouri; Roll: 29; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 21

• 1890 Veterans Schedules
• Veteran's Name: Alexander F Fleet
• Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Columbia, Boone, Missouri
• Year enlisted: 1861
• Year discharged: 1865
• Rank: Major

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Name: Alexander Frederick Fleet 

• Born: - Death: 1843-1911
• Source Citation:
• The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA)
• Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 1, 1897-1942. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (Who Am 1)

Register of officers and members of the Society of Colonial Wars, 1897-1898 : constitution of the General Society. (in German) 

Military pg. 311

State Society No. 2

General Society No. 402

Fleet, Prof, Alexander Frederick, A.M., L.L.D., Culver, Ind.

6th in descent from Lieut-Col. Henry fleet

7th in descents from Robert Brooke

7th in descent from captain James Neale

6th in descents from Frances Hutchins

PG. 411 Hutchens, Frances Member of the Maryland House of assembly, 1694... FLEET, ALEXANDER F. 31

Boone County, Missouri Obituaries, 1902-13 

Name: Alexander Frederick, Col. Fleet 

Born: Date/Age: abt 66 # GA 

Died:Date: 3 Sep 1911 

Weant, Kenneth, comp.. Boone County, Missouri 4811 Deaths Reported in the Columbia Missouri Herald, 2 January 1902 - 29 August 1913

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Audrain County, Missouri Obituaries, 1904-16 

Name: Alexander Frederick, Col. Fleet 

Age/Born: Date: * gr 

Died:Date: 4 Sep 1911 

• Weant, Kenneth, ed Collection of obituaries in Audrain County, Missouri newspapers between 1904 and 1916

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Audrain County, Missouri Deaths, 1876-1905 

about Alexander Frederick, Col. @ Fleet Name: Alexander Frederick, Col. @ Fleet 

Age or Born: Date: # GA 

Died:Date: 3 Sep 1911 

Issue Date: 7 Sep 1911 

• Weant, Kenneth E. Audrain County, Missouri 5330 Deaths Reported in and Chronological Index to Selected Articles from the Mexico Weekly Ledger 21 September 1876 to 14 November 1898. Volume 7. Missouri: Kenneth E. Weant, 2001
• Weant, Kenneth E. Audrain County, Missouri 5505 Deaths Reported in & Chronological Index to Selected Articles from the Mexico Weekly Ledger 26 December 1898 to 26 December 1905. Volume 8. Missouri: Kenneth E. Weant, 2001.

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The Indianapolis Star 

Tuesday, September 5, 1911

Col. Alex F. Fleet is Dead 

Begins career as Pedagogue Soon After War, in Which He Served on Confederate Side. CULVER, Ind. - Sept 4. - (Special) - col. Alexander Frederick fleet, a noted classical scholar and educator, who was for eleven years professor of Greek in the University of Missouri and for fourteen years superintendent of the culver Military Academy in Indiana, is dead at the home of his son in Atlanta, Ga.

col. fleet was born in Virginia in 1843, and after being graduated from the University of Virginia entered the Confederate army, in which he served from 1861 to 1865, rising to the grade of adjutant general in the brigade of Gen. H. a. Wise at the time of the surrender at Appomattox.
Aster the war he went into educational work in Missouri, where he occupied the chair of Greek in William Jewel College and in the University of Missouri. He was also president for six years of the Lexington Female College.
FOUNDS MILITARY ACADEMEY
In 1890 he founded the Missouri Military Academy at Mexico, Mo., and continued at its head until it was destroyed by fire in 1896. Following that event he was called to the superintendancy of the Culver military Academy. To his administrative ability is largely due the growth and prominence of this Indiana Institution. A year ago failing health made necessary the giving up of active work, and he was retired as superintendent emeritus and was succeeded by the present superintendent, col. L. R. Gignilliat.
col. Fleet was for several years a member of the managing board of the American School of classical Studies in Athens and was a member of the 'committee of ten" of the National Educational Association in 1894. He was a governor of the Society of colonial Ways, historian of the Sons of the Revolution and a founder of the Order of Runnymede.
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Newspaper: Atlanta Constitution, The (1881-2001) 

Publication: 6 Sep 1911 - Atlanta, Georgia 

colonel Alexander f. Fleet The funeral of Colonel Alexander Fleet, who died at the home of his son, Professor J. S. fleet, was held from the residence, 35 Peachtree place, yesterday afternoon at 3:300 o'clock. The service was conducted by Rev. Charles Daniel and Rev. Richard Orme Flinn. The interment, in West View was private.

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Friday, September 8, 1911

Rochester Sentinel  Col. Alexander Frederick FLEET, a noted classical scholar and educator, who was for eleven years professor of Greek in the University of Missouri and for fourteen years superintendent of the CULVER Military academy in Indiana, is dead at the home of his son in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1890 he founded the Missouri Military academy at Mexico, Missouri, and continued at its head until it was destroyed by fire in 1896. Following that event he was called to the superintendency of the Culver Military academy. To his administrative ability is largely due the growth and prominence of this Indiana institution. A year ago failing health made necessary the giving up of active work, and he was retired as superintendent and was succeeded by the present superintendent, Col. L. R. GIGNILLIAT.