About Alex Laing
Lived 1865 – 2000. Alex Laing was a rugby union player.
Early life and career Alexander J Laing was born on 25 October 1865 in Hawick, Scotland, He had at least five younger siblings (Robert, Janet, Marjory, Mary and William). His father was a partner in a Tweed Merchants. He attended the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
British Isles Laing played 26 times while on the 1888 tour but did not score any tries. In Wyoming he married Flora, herself from Wyoming but whose father was from Canada and whose mother was from North Carolina. They had at least two daughters in Wyoming, Elizabeth and Margory. Laing was naturalized as a citizen of USA in November 1898 before the District Court of Sheridan County, Wyoming. By 1920 he had lived uninterruptedly in buffalo for 31 years where he had established himself as a stock grower, specializing in sheep, although in 1920 he did apply to import into the USA a shipment of pure bred cattle from Scotland.
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Who was Alex Laing?
rugby union player (1865-)
When was Alex Laing born?
Alex Laing was born in 1865 in Hawick.
When did Alex Laing die?
Alex Laing died in 2000.
What was Alex Laing's occupation?
Alex Laing was a rugby union player.
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· DBpedia: Alex Laing (rugby union)
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