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 AIKEN. ALDEN. pursued his studies in the Lawrence scien- tific school (Harvard) during the years 1857 to '61 inclusive. In 1859 he was engaged with the United States Coast Survey ; in 186 1 he was made assistant in the Zoological Museum, Cam- bridge, and became director of this insti- tution in 1874. He was superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Com- pany, 1S66 to 1869. He was treasurer till 1 S 7 1, when he was made its president, which position he still holds. Professor Agassiz was married at Jamaica Plain, November 13, i860, to Anna, daugh- ter of George Robert and Sarah P. (Shaw) Russell. Of this union were three chil- dren : George R., Maximilian and Ru- dolph L. Agassiz. Professor Agassiz has been overseer of Harvard College, and is now fellow of this institution. AIKEN, DAVID, son of Phinehas and Elisabeth (Patterson) Aiken, was born at Bedford, Hillsborough county, N. H., June 7, 1S04. His early education was obtained in a common district school and at Pem- broke Academy, under Mr. John Vose, and at Phillips Academy, Andover, under Mr. John Adams. He entered Dartmouth Col- lege, where he was graduated in 1830. He then studied law with Wells & Alvord at Greenfield, Mass., and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1833 ; was judge of the court of common pleas from 1S56 l " '59- lb- has been the law partner of Henry Chapman. George Grennell, Davis & Al- len, Chester C. Conant, and W. S. B. Hop- kins, afterwards with Charles E. Forbes of Northampton. He is now partner with his son, John A. Aiken, but retired from active practice when the State sold its interest in the Troy & Greenfield and Hoosac Tunnel Railroad — he having acted is legal adviser to its manager up to that time, in behalf of the Commonwealth. He was senator from Franklin county in 1874. From the promotion of Judge Wells in [844 lo the present day, with the excep- tion of the period he himself was on the bench, Judge Aiken has been the acknowl- edged leader of the county bar. He was married in October, 1844, to I.vdia W., daughter of Col. Spencer and Lydia (Bardwell) Root, who died in Novem- ber, 1846, without issue. His second wife was Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John S. and Mary Hawley Adams, of Amherst, to whom he was married in November, 1S48, and who died October 28, 1855. His sur- viving children are : John Adams, Eliza- beth P., and Harriet L. Aiken. Two younger sons, Edward and David, de- ceased. ALDEN, Edmund Kimball, son of Dr. Ebenezer and Anne (Kimball) Alden, was born in Randolph, Norfolk county, April 11, 1825. He is a lineal descendant in the eighth generation, by two family lines, of "John" and " Priscilla " of Mayflower fame. After attending the Randolph Academy, he entered Amherst College, where he graduated in 1844 ; was then a teacher in the Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, for a year, and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1848, continuing his studies there for a few months as Abbott resident. From 1850 to 1854 Mr. Alden was pastor of the First Church of Yarmouth, Maine ; was pastor of the Congregational church at Lenox, from 1854 to 1859; and then became pastor of Phillips Church, Boston, so continuing till 1876. He received from his alma mater, in 1866, the honorary degree of D. D. Mr. Alden was married April 25, 1850, to Maria, daughter of Deacon Gershom and Sarah (Hyde) Hyde, of Bath, Me. He was a trustee for fourteen years of Phillips Academy and the Andover Theo- logical Seminary, resigning this trust in 1881 ; he has also been a trustee of Amherst College since 1873; he is at present corresponding secretary, home department, of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, hav- ing held the office for thirteen years. ALDEN, LEWIS, son of Lewis and Abi- gail (Belcher) Alden, was born in East Randolph, Norfolk county, April 29, 1848. He received a common and high school education. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one he worked in the shoe factory of L. F. Wilde <r Co. Later, for nearly five years, he worked for Rufus Gibbs & Co., boot and shoe jobbing house, Boston — most of the time in charge of their factory at South Weymouth. He established himself in business in Hol- brook, 187S, entering his present factory (boots and shoes) 1S85. Mr. Alden was married in Saugus, June, 1 87 4, to Harriet S. Hammond. Of this union is one child : Mabel Frances Alden. Mr Alden is trustee of the Holbrook public library. He was largely instru- mental in founding the Holbrook Metho- dist church, and has been for ten years superintendent of the Sunday-school. He