Alcott, Amos Bronson – Aldrich, Charles
Alcott, Amos Bronson
educator, lecturer, author, was born Nov. 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Conn. He was a philosopher of a singularly unpractical type, whose personality was of greater interest than his writings. He was the author of Conversations with Children on the Gospels; Table Talk, Emerson; Essays; Tablets, Concord Days, Sonnets, and Canzonets; and New Connecticut, a poem. He died March 4, 1888, in Boston, Mass. He was the father of Louisa May Alcott.
Alcott, Louisa May
author, was born Nov. 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pa.
She was a writer whose books for young people have been widely popular. She served as a hospital nurse in Washington in 1862-63. She was the author of Little Women; Little Men; An Old-Fashioned Girl; Eight Cousins; Under the Lilacs; Moods; Hospital Sketches, and A Modern Mephistopheles. The thoughtful poem, Thoreau's Flute, is her finest effort.
She died March 6, 1888, in Boston, Mass.
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.
Alden, Ebenezer
physician, author, was born March 17, 1788, in Randolph, Mass. He was of the seventh generation from John Alden of Mayflower memory, and was graduated at Harvard in 1808. He studied medicine at Dartmouth and at the university of Pennsylvania, and followed his profession throughout This life in his native town. He published Historical Sketches of the Massachusetts Medical Society; Memoirs of Mrs. M. A. O.
Clark, and the Alden Memorial (Boston, 1867). He died Jan. 26, 1881, in Randolph, Mass.
Alden, Emily Gillmore
educator, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Boston, Mass. She has taught in Castleton, Vt., and now has charge of the departments of history, rhetoric and English literature in the Monticello seminary of Godfrey, Ill. She is the author of numerous meritorious poems, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Alden, George Adelbert
merchant, was born April 7, 1830, in Hope, Maine. He started a brokerage business in drugs and crude rubber, adopting the firm name of George A. Alden and Co. In 1878 his oldest son, Adelbert Henry Alden, then just of age, came into the concern as a partner. The firm now enjoy a large business in importing rubber, and have gradually come to deal in various other foreign products.
Alden, Henry Mills
journalist, author, poet, was born Nov. 11, 1836, in Mount Tabor, Vt. He received a college education, and in 1869 he became managing editor of Harper's Magazine. He is the author of the poem, The Ancient Lady of Sorrow; and, jointly with A. H.
Guernsey, Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion, Mr. Guernsey writing the eastern campaigns and Mr. Alden the western. He is also the author of God in His World, and A Study of Death.
Alden, Hiram
legislator, philanthropist, was born in October, 1792, in Ashfield, Mass. He was a representative from Branch county in 1835 in the Michigan state legislature, and was of the seventh generation from John Alden, of Mayflower fame. In 1838 he was appointed commissioner of internal improvements of Michigan, and was acting railroad commissioner at the time of the construction of the railroad from Detroit to Pontiac. He died Nov. 26, 1838, in Detroit, Mich., and was followed to his grave by six hundred officials and laborers, who insisted on paying the expenses as their tribute to a friend and an honest man.
Alden, Ichabod
soldier, was born Aug. 11, 1739, in Duxbury, Mass. He was a great-grandson of John Alden of the original Plymouth colony. Before the revolution he was lieutenant-colonel of the Plymouth regiment, and he held the same rank in Baldwin's regiment at the siege of Boston. Subsequently he was promoted to the colonelcy of the 7th Massachusetts regiment. He was killed by Indians at Cherry Valley, N. Y. He died Nov. 10, 1778.
Alden, Isabella Macdonald
author, was born Nov. 3, 1841, in Rochester, N. Y. In 1866 she was married to the Rev. G. R. Alden, and resides in Washington, D. C. Her books are peculiarly adapted to the use of the youth of this country; and most of them have been adopted in Sunday school libraries throughout the United States. She is author of a popular juvenile series called Pansy Books, embracing nearly sixty titles, most of which are adapted to the use of Sunday school libraries. Mrs. Alden has from the beginning been identified with the Chautauqua system of instruction, and also edits Pansy, a juvenile publication.
Alden, James
naval officer, was born March 31, 1810, in Portland, Maine.
He was appointed midshipman in 1828, and in that capacity accompanied the Wilkes exploring expedition around the world in 1838-42. He was commissioned commodore in 1866, and two years later was placed in charge of the navy yard at Mare Island, Cal. He died Feb. 6, 1877, in San Francisco, Cal.
Alden, John
magistrate of the Plymouth colony, was born in 1599 in England. He was hired as a cooper at Southampton, where the Mayflower was undergoing repairs, and signed the compact in her cabin in 1620. He married Priscilla Mullens in 1621, and the incident of his courtship has been made the subject ✓ of one of Longfellow's longer poems. He died Sept. 12, 1687, in Duxbury, Mass.
Alden, Joseph
educator, author, was born Jan. 4, 1807, in Cairo, N. Y. He was an industrious contributor to educational and Sunday-school literature. He was for many years president of the normal school at Albany; and was the author of Example of Washington; Citizen's Manual; Christian Ethics; The Science of Government; Studies in Bryant, and other works. He died Aug. 30, 1885, in New York.
Alden, Roger
soldier, was born Feb. 11, 1754, in Lebanon, Conn. He was graduated at Yale in 1773, and served in the revolutionary war as aide to General Greene. Subsequently he became agent of the Holland Land company, and resided at Meadville, Pa., from 1795 to 1825. He was appointed ordnance storekeeper at West Point in 1825, and remained as such until his death. He was a great-grandson of John Alden. He died Nov. 5, 1836, in West Point, N. Y.
Alden, Timothy
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.
Alden, Timothy
inventor of a machine for setting and distributing type, was born in 1819 in Barnstable, Mass. He was sixth in descent from John Alden, the Mayflower Pilgrim. When very young and a compositor in his brother's print- If I live I will invent ing office he said: a machine to do this tiresome work. He steadily pursued this object, and after twenty years' labor accomplished it. It was improved after his death by Henry W. Alden. He died Dec. 4, 1858, in New York.
Alden, William Livingston
author, was born Oct. 9, 1837, in Williamstown, Mass. He was a humorous writer who has for some time resided in London. He was the author of A New Robinson Crusoe; Domestic Explosions; Shooting Stars; Moral Pirates; Cruise of the Canoe Club; and Life of Christopher Columbus. a
Alderson, John Duffy
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 29, 1854, at Nicholas Court-House, W. Va. He received education; common-school studied law and was admitted to the bar when twenty-one years of age. He was appointed prosecuting attorney in each of the counties of Nicholas and Webster, to fill vacancies occasioned by the death of his father, Hon. Joseph A. Alderson; and in 1876 was elected prosecuting attorney for these counties, and was twice reelected, serving until Jan. 1, 1889. He was elected to the fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Aldrich, Anne Reeve
poet, novelist, was born April 25, 1866, in New York City. Her poems have constantly ap. peared in Lippincott's Magazine, The Century, and various other periodicals.
She is the author of the Rose of Flame and Other Poems of Love; Songs About Life, Love and Death; and a novel entitled The Feet of Love. She died in 1892.
Aldrich, Charles
journalist, was born Oct. 2, 1828, in Ellington, N. Y. He spent one year in Jamestown academy.
In 1857 he went to Iowa and established the Freeman in Webster City. He served as a member of the Iowa house of representatives in 1882-83. Mr. Aldrich is the author of many of the important laws of Iowa.