Joseph Alden

Joseph Alden (January 4, 1807 – August 30, 1885) was an American academic and Presbyterian pastor. He was born in Cairo, New York, in 1807.

Joseph Alden
Born	January 4, 1807 Cairo, New York
Died	August 30, 1885(1885-08-30) (aged 78)
Education	Union College Princeton Theological Seminary Columbia University
Children	William L. Alden
Church	Presbyterian
Congregations served	Congregational Church of Williamstown, Massachusetts
Offices held	8thpresident of Jefferson College (1857–1862) 1stpresident of State Normal School at Albany (1867–1882)

He received his bachelor's degree from Union College, going on to receive his advanced degrees from Columbia University.

He was professor at Williams College in 1835, professor at Lafayette College in 1853, president of Jefferson College in 1857, and principal of the State Normal School (now University at Albany, SUNY) in Albany, New York until 1882. He was also a teacher in the Dedham Public Schools.[1]

Among his many books, more than seventy, the most well known were Christian Ethics or the Science of Duty (1866), The Science of Government (1867), and Thoughts on the Religious Life (1879).[2]

Selected works

• Alden, Joseph (1835). The Life of the Prophet Jeremiah. Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Sunday School Society. pp. 47.
• Alden, Joseph (1879). Thoughts on the Religious Life. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 133.
• Alden, Joseph (1872). Alden's Citizen's Manual: A Text-book on Government, for Common Schools. New York: Sheldon & Co. pp. 141.
• Alden, Joseph (1866). Christian Ethics; Or, The Science of Duty. New York: Ivison, Phinnet, Blakeman Co. pp. 173.
• Alden, Joseph (1886). The Science of Government in Connection with American Institutions. New York & Chicago: Sheldon & Company. pp. 304.

References

1. Slafter, Carlos (1905). A Record of Education: The Schools and Teachers of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1644-1904. Dedham Transcript Press. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
2. "Joseph Alden (1857–1862)". U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives. Washington & Jefferson College. September 4, 2003.

• Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
• "Obituary. Rev. Dr. Joseph Alden". The Publishers' Weekly. 28. F. Leypold. 1885. p. 274.
• Hart, John Seely (1877). "Dr. Alden". A Short Course in Literature, English and American. Philadelphia: Eldredge & Brother. p. 288.
• "Alden Hall". M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives. University at Albany, SUNY. 2003.

Academic offices
Preceded by Alexander Blaine Brown	President of Jefferson College 1857–1862	Succeeded by David Hunter Riddle