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I am glad to hear from you as we are both descendants of Henry Cansler (1800-1875) of Lincolnton, North Carolina. I come off of his fourth son Abel Theodore Cansler (1829-1879) and you descend from his second child Alexander Jacob (1825-1872). My Cansler book will be published by Gateway Press around Christmas 1999, and I am hoping to finish it by early fall. I look forward to exchanging information with you. Do you have a family group sheet on James Henry Cansler and his 14 children. I have the names but little else. I had the opportunity to visit the Wilson Library on the Univ. of NC campus. From that visit I was able to write the following:
Alex J. Cansler was one of 37 men who made up the class of 1847, at the University of North Carolina, in the village of Chapel Hill. One of his classmates was James Johnston Pettigrew, who in July 1863, as a Confederate Brigadier General, died leading the First Brigade, made up of four North Carolina regiments, during the ill-fated Pickett's Charge, on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Stored in the restricted reading room of the Wilson Library, of the University of North Carolina, is Alex J. Cansler's junior manuscript. Dated 29 May 1846, and written in Lincolnton, North Carolina, it is titled "The Influence of Climate Upon the Mind and Body." Over three pages, in a neat cursive handwriting, Alex writes that he is "fully convinced that climate exerts a manifest influence upon the mind and body of man." Alex Cansler maintains that being raised in a cold climate is healthier than living in a hot climate, where the land is "low and marshy." He stated that "persons who are raised in a cold climate, where the country is generally high and mountains, are generally hearty, large, and command a fresh appearance." Being of a "strong constitution," they would not be "subject to all passing diseases that are so common in low countries."
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