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Alcott, William Alexander

reformer, author, was born Aug. 6, 1798, in Wolcott, Conn. He was an energetic, earnest writer upon diet reform, and the author of The House I Live In; Vegetable Diet; and Library of Health. He died March 29, 1859, in Auburndale, Mass.

ALDEN, CYNTHIA M. WESTOVER, educator, journalist, was born May 31, 1862, in Afton, Iowa She is a graduate of the Colorado state university and the Denver business college. She has been a teacher of geology, bookkeeping and vocal music, and as a soprano soloist she sang for several years in the New York church choirs. In 1887 she became inspector of customs of the United States government in New York City, making some of the most important seizures in the service.

For many years she was engaged in the state museum of natural history, in the geological department and the cataloguing of gems, etc., which was to her more a work of pleasure than labor. She resigned her position in the museum to devote herself entirely to journalistic work; for several years was editor of the woman's department of the New York Recorder; and is now the editor of the woman's department of the New York Tribune.