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Alden, Timothy (Clergyman college president)

clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 28, 1771, in Yarmouth, Mass. He studied at Harvard, distinguishing himself by his knowledge of oriental languages, and was graduated in 1774. From 1799 to 1805 he was pastor to the congregational church in Portsmouth, N. H., where from 1800 to 1808 he taught school. Subsequently he conducted schools for young ladies in Boston, Newark, Cincinnati, and East Liberty, Pa. In 1817 he founded Alleghany college, Meadville, Pa., and became its first president, retiring in 1831. He published a collection of epitaphs and inscriptions in five volumes entitled: An Account of Sundry Missions Among the Senecas, and other works, and prepared a valuable catalogue of the library of the New York historical society. He died July 5, 1839, in Pittsburg, Pa.