Alexander W. Farlinger

AlexanderW. Farlinger (1861-1925) was a grocery store owner, businessman, and councilman in Atlanta, Georgia. He built the four-story Eclectic Victorian Farlinger Apartments building designed by George W. Laine in 1898. It became a Hotel Francis. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and demolished in 1988.

Born in Canada, he arrived in Atlanta about 1885. He opened a grocery store. He served as president of the National Retail Grocers Association. The Farlinger building housed his grocery store on the ground floor and a cafe on the fourth floor. It was then in the city's northern suburbs but commercial development grew around it in the early 20th century. In 1930 it became a hotel. He was active in the Congregational Church. He was a party in a real estate lawsuit.

He spoke in support of pure food laws.

As councilmen, he and Claude Ashley were leaders for a Ku Klux Klan inspired 1915 rally at Grace Methodist Church in support of racial segregation in housing.