Born April 24, 1829, near Ballinamallard, County Tyronne, Northern Ireland, the youngest of ten children. Older sons of the family came to America in 1828 and one of them, Andrew, came to Cedar County in 1838. He was so impressed with the country that he wrote his father to sell the family holding of 13 acres in Ireland and come to Iowa. The elder Moffits and six of their younger children started the journey early in 1840. The family located south of Mechanicsville near Mason Grove in Linn Township. In April, 1852, Alexander and his brother, Francis, set out for California, but Alexander returned by the Isthmus of Panama only to make a second journey to California before settling in Cedar County. Alexander Moffit married Martha Poteet, a neighbor's daughter, in 1859. In 1880, Mr. Moffit purchased his first purebred Hereford. He was so pleased that in 1882 bought four imported cows and an imported bull, purchased from Badwell and Burleigh. Politically he was a Republican. He held various township and school offices. He was a member of the Cedar County Board of Supervisors, and a member of the States' 16th General Assembly. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church of Mechanicsville.