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ALDEN.ALDERMAN. John?" are well known. Many and very worthy descendants have sprung from this marriage. Mr. Alden was highly respected by the colonists for his integrity and his practical good sense. For several years he served as magistrate. He died in Duxbury, Mass., Sept. 12, 1687. ALDEN, Joseph, educator, was born in Cairo, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1807. He began to teach school when fourteen years of age, in order to pay his way through college. He was thus enabled to attend Brown university, 1826-'27, and was graduated at Union college in 1829. He studied theology at Princeton, 1829-'31; was tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1831-'33; was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church, July 3, 1834; was pastor at Williamstown, Mass., 1834-'36; professor of rhetoric, political economy, and history at Williams college, 1835-'52; of mental and moral philosophy in Lafayette college, 1852-'57; president of Jefferson college, 1857-'62; stated supply, Boiling Spring, N.J., 1863-'65; editor N.Y. Observer, 1866; and principal of the State normal school, Albany, N.Y., 1867-'82. He received the degree of D.D. from Union in 1839, and that of LL.D. from Columbia in 1857. He is the author of "Elements of Intellectual Philosophy"; "Science of Government in Connection with American Institutions"; "Christian Ethics"; "The Science of Duty"; "Studies in Bryant"; and "Thoughts on the Religious Life," with an introduction by William Cullen Bryant, besides over seventy Sunday school library books. He died in New York city, Aug. 30, 1885. ALDEN, Timothy, educator, was born at Yarmouth, Mass., Aug. 28, 1771. He was graduated at Harvard in 1794, then studied theology, and in 1799 became pastor of a church at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He afterwards conducted schools in Boston, Newark and Cincinnati, directing his educational skill to teaching young women. In 1817 he founded, and was first president of Allegheny college, Meadville, Pa., continuing at the head of that institution for fourteen years. He wrote "Missions among the Senecas," and prepared a catalogue of the New York historical society's library. He died July 5, 1839. ALDEN, Timothy, inventor, was born at Barnstable, Mass., Feb. 3, 1823, sixth in descent from John Alden, the Puritan. When very young he was apprenticed to his brother, who was a printer, and at the age of seventeen began to plan a machine for setting and distributing type. It took five years for his crude idea to develop into a practical reality, and then he produced a composing and distributing machine, the type arranged in cells around the circumference of a horizontal wheel. As the wheel revolves the receivers pick up the type as directed by the operator. This machine was improved by his brother Henry, after the death of Timothy, and was the pioneer in type-setting machines in the United States, although it did not come into extensive practical use. He died in New York city, Dec. 4, 1858. ALDEN, William Livingston, author, was born in Williamstown, Mass., Oct. 9, 1837, son of Prof. Joseph Alden. He was educated in Lafayette and Jefferson colleges, and was graduated at the latter in 1858. He then studied law, became an editor on the New York Times, and subsequently wrote for young people. He was U.S. consul at Rome in 1885-'89, and received from the king the cross of chevalier of the order of the Crown of Italy. He was leader writer on the Paris Herald in 1890-'3, when he retired to London. He is the author of "Domestic Explosives (1878); "Shooting Stars" (1879); "A New Robinson Crusoe" (1880); "Canoe and Flying Proa" (1880); "The Moral Pirates" (1881); "Life of Christopher Columbus" (1882); "The Cruise of the Ghost" (1882); "The Cruise of the Canoe Club" (1883); "The Adventures of Jimmy Brown" (1885); "The Loss of the Swansea" (1889); "Trying to Find Europe" (1889); "A Lost Love" (1892); "Told by the Colonel" (1893); "Freaks" (1895); "The Mystery of Elias G. Roebuck"; "His Daughter"; "Van Wagener's Way." ALDERMAN, Edward Sinclair, educator, was born at Wilmington, N.C., July 27, 1861. He was graduated from Wake Forest college, N.C., in 1883, and from the Southern Baptist theological seminary, Louisville, Ky., in 1886. He was ordained, July 4, 1886, at Wilmington, N.C., and was pastor at Chapel Hill, N.C., and Paris, Woodlake and Russellville, Ky., 1886-98. He was elected president of Bethel college, Russellville, Ky., in 1898. Bethel college conferred on him the degree of D.D. in 1898. ALDERMAN, Edwin Anderson, educator, was born in Wilmington, N.C., May 15, 1861; son of James and Susan (Corbett) Alderman; grandson of Patrick and Susan (Wallace) Alderman and