John Alexander standing behind his mother likely is between 15 and 16 years old in this family portrait.
Based on this series of accounts of business ventures between February and late July, 1888 this may have been a pivotal year for Charles David and his young family. They also reveal business experiences not otherwise documented.
The family moved to Thomasville, Georgia late 1888 or early 1889 where Charles David operated a photography business and billed himself as a sewing machine machinist. It appears that John Alexander apprenticed with his father as a sewing machine apprentice. Soon after his father’s death we find him working as a sewing machine machinist traveling around the Southeast.
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