Aldrich, Truman H
civil engineer, railroad president, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1848, in Palmyra, N. Y. He was educated in the public school at that place, at the military academy in West Chester, Pa., and was graduated from the Rensselaer polytechnic institute of Troy, N. Y., as a mining engineer in class of 1869. After practicing his profession in New York and New Jersey removed to Selma, Ala., in winter of 1871-72; was in the banking business there for two years and then made coal mining a business.