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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 II, 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 & 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, 1878, entering his present factory (boots and shoes) 1885.
Mr. Alden was married in Saugus, June, 1874, 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
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is always alive and active in promoting the temperance cause. He is a director in the Holbrook Co-operative Bank, a charter member of the Knights of Honor, having passed through every grade of office.
ALDRICH, JAMES MOTT, son of Arnold and Dollee Lang Aldrich, was born in Smithfield, Providence county, R. I., Octo- ber 30, 1817. He attended the common schools and the academy at Union Village.
He studied medicine in the office of Dr. J. A. Brown, Providence, R. I., Harvard medical school, and in the Botanic Medi- cal College, Cincinnati, Ohio ; and com- menced regular practice in Fall River in 1843, in which city he has ever since lived.
Dr. Aldrich was married in Dedham, May 24, 1844, to Mary A. Allen, who died in 1857. He was again married, Septem- ber 23, 1862, to Louisa G., the daughter of Hon. Nathaniel B. and Sarah (Gray) Borden, of Fall River. They have two chil- dren : Mary L. and Nathaniel B. Aldrich.
From 1846 to '47 he was editor of the "Medical Enquirer." He has been for many years president of the Children's Home ; was a member of the school board fifteen years ; and is president of the Bar- nard Manufacturing Company.
Dr. Aldrich was a strong abolitionist, and has been a life-long advocate of total abstinence from all intoxicants; was a member of the Society of Friends, but left them when their New England yearly meeting forbade the opening of their meet- ing-houses for anti-slavery gatherings. He has been connected with the Unitarian society since 1871.
ALDRICH, P. EMORY, was born in New Salem, Franklin county. His ances- tors came from England in 1635, residing at first in Dorchester and Braintree, and afterwards settling in Mendon, Worcester county.
After obtaining his early education at the public schools, he fitted for college at the Shelburne Falls Academy, and in pri- vate study mastered a collegiate education. He studied law while engaged in teaching at the South, and later attended the Harvard law school. In 1845 he was admitted to the bar in Richmond, Va., but the following year returned to Massachu- setts, and after studying for six months with Chapman, Ashmun & Norton, in Springfield, he was admitted to practice in the courts of the State.
He began practice in Barre, where he remained for seven years, for three years editing the " Barre Patriot." He was sent
as a delegate to the Convention of 1853 for the revision of the state constitution, and the same year Governor Clifford ap- pointed him district attorney for the mid- dle district, which office he held till 1866. Removing to Worcester in 1854, he became a partner of Hon. P. C. Bacon. In 1862 he was elected mayor of Worcester, declin- ing a re-election. He was sent as a repre- sentative to the Legislature in 1866-'67, and for three years after its organization he was a member of the state board of health.
In the cause of temperance and educa- tion he has ever taken a lively interest. He has been an active member of the American Antiquarian Society, and one of its council. He has also been a valued member of the board of trustees of the Worcester County Free Institution of In- dustrial Science.
In 1850 Mr. Aldrich married Sarah, daughter of Harding P. Wood, of Barre.
ALDRICH, SAMUEL NELSON, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stod- dard) Aldrich, was born in Upton, Worces- ter county, February 3, 1838.
His education was conducted at the Worcester and Southington, Conn., acad- emies, and at Brown University, Provi- dence, R. I. Subsequently he taught schools at Upton, Holliston and Worces- ter, Mass.
He entered upon the study of law with Hon. Isaac Davis and E. B. Stoddard, at Worcester, and completed the same at the Harvard law school. In 1863 Mr. Aldrich was admitted to the bar, and then com- menced practice at Marlborough. Since 1874 he has kept an office in Boston, though retaining his residence in Marl- borough and living in Boston during the winter.
In the public affairs of Marlborough Mr. Aldrich has been prominent ; was for nine years on the school committee, was four years on the board of selectmen, officiating as chairman of both ; has been a director of the People's National Bank at Marlborough ; president of the Marl- borough Board of Trade ; president of the Framingham & Lowell Railroad (now a portion of the Old Colony system), and president of the Central Massachusetts Railroad.
In 1879 Mr. Aldrich was elected to the state senate, where he served as chairman of the committee on taxation, and as a member of the committee on bills in the third reading, and on constitutional amend- ments. In 1880 he was again a member
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of the state senate, serving on the judiciary committee. In 1883 he was a member of the House, and served on the judiciary committee.
In 1880 he was the Democratic candi- date for Congress from the 7th Massa- chusetts district. In March, 1887, Mr. Aldrich was appointed by President Cleve- land, the assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, which position he yet holds. Besides this, he is a member of the Suffolk bar, is in the practice of his pro- fession, and is still president of the Cen- tral Massachusetts Railroad.
Mr. Aldrich married, in 1865, at Upton, Mary J., daughter of J. T and Eliza A. (Colburn) Macfarland. They have a son : Harry M. Aldrich, now in Harvard.
ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY, son of Elias T. and Sara (Bailey) Aldrich, was born in Portsmouth, Rockingham county, N. H., November 11, 1836.
He received his early education at the common schools in New Orleans, La.,
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and at the Temple grammar school in Portsmouth. He commenced a course of study preparatory to entering college, but having the misfortune, in his fifteenth year, to lose his father, he abandoned that pur- pose, and entered the counting-room of an uncle, a merchant in New York. Here
he remained for three years, and it was during that period that he began to con- tribute verses to the New York journals. A collection of his poems was published in1 1855, the volume taking its name from the initial poem, " The Bells. " Mr. Aldrich's most successful poem, "Babie Bell," which was published in 1856, was copied and repeated all over the coun- try.
His next position was that of proof- reader, and then reader for a publishing house. He became a frequent contributor to the New York "Evening Mirror," " Putnam's Magazine," "The Knicker- bocker," and the weekly newspapers, for one of which he wrote " Daisy's Necklace and What Came of It," a prose poem which was afterwards issued in a volume, and attained a wide popularity.
In 1856 Mr. Aldrich joined the staff of the "Home Journal," continuing in this position for three years. He was also connected with the "Saturday Press," and a frequent contributor to "Harper's Monthly," and the "Atlantic Monthly," of which latter magazine he has for some years been the editor.
Mr. Aldrich was married in New York, November 28, 1865. In 1866 he removed to Boston, where he has since resided.
The following may be mentioned among Mr. Aldrich's best-known writings : "The Story of a Bad Boy," " Marjorie Daw and Other Stories," " Prudence Palfrey," " The Queen of Sheba," "The Stillwater Trag- edy," " Poems," " From Ponkapog to Pesth," "Cloth of Gold and Other Poems," " Flower and Thorn," "Babie Bell, " " XXXVI Lyrics and XII Sonnets, " " Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book and Other Poems," " Mercedes and Later Lyrics," and "The Story of a Cat," translated from the French.
ALGER, ALPHEUS B., son of Edwin A. and Amanda (Buswell) Alger, was born in Lowell, Middlesex county, Octo- ber 8, 1854.
His early education was accomplished at the public schools of his native place. In the Lowell high school he fitted for college, and was graduated at Harvard with the class of 1875. The same year he entered the Harvard law school, and a year later continued the study of the law in the office of the Hon. Josiah G. Abbott of Boston. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and began the practice of law in connection with his father's firm, Brown & Alger, in the city of Boston, with his residence in Cambridge.
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Mr. Alger has been actively identified with the Democratic party in politics. He has held the positions of chairman and secretary of the Democratic city committee of Cambridge. He is also a member of the congressional district committee. In 1884 he was chosen alder- man, and acted on the committees on claims, police, ordinances, and a new bridge to Boston. In 1886 and '87 he was a member of the Senate, serving as chairman on the committee on engrossed bills and mercantile affairs, and as member of the committees of public service, expe- diting legislative business, judiciary, bills in the third reading, rules and liquor law.
He was also a member of the state committee sent to the Centennial Exhi- bition at Philadelphia. He is secretary and treasurer of the Bay State Club, a member of the Middlesex County Demo- cratic Club, and of the Newetowne and Central clubs of Cambridge. He is a popular Mason, being a member of the Amicable F. & A. M., Cambridge chap- ter, and also of the Boston Commandery. He has held the different offices in the St. Omer Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and Pomonah Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men.
ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE, son of Nahum and Catherine Sampson (Rounse- ville) Alger, was born in Freetown, Bristol county, December 28, 1822.
He attended the common schools from the age of four to ten, then began to work for a livelihood ; he worked five years in a cotton mill at Hookset, N. H., studied attentively in all available hours, educating himself in the various branches of an aca- demic course. He attended an academy in Pembroke, N. H., two years, and one year at Lebanon, N. H. He entered the divinity school of Harvard University in 1844, and was graduated in the class of 1847. He was pastor of the Unitarian church in Roxbury, from 1847 to 1855 ; then settled in Boston until 1873; then four years minister of Church of the Messiah in New York City. He is now engaged in preach- ing, lecturing and literary work.
Mr. Alger was married in Roxbury, in September, 1847, to Anne Langdon, daughter of Giles and Abigail Harris (Langdon) Lodge. Of this union were seven children: Henry Lodge, Abby Lang- don, Caroline Rounseville, Arthur Marti- neau, William Ellerton, Philip Rounseville and Anne Langdon.
He has held many offices and deliv- ered many addresses in Masonic bodies,
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and lectured for twenty-five years very extensively through the country before lyceums and literary societies. When chap- lain of the Massachusetts House of Repre- sentatives in 1863, the prayers he offered were so much appreciated, that the speaker, Hon. Harvey Jewell, had them taken down by a stenographer, and the members had them published in a volume enti- tled "Legislative Prayers," which passed through several editions.
He gave the annual election sermon before the Legislature in 1863. He gave the Boston Fourth of July ora- tion in 1857, which created a sensation by its bold treatment of the slavery ques- tion. The city government refused the usual vote of thanks and request for publication. Seven years later, when the prophecies of the orator had been fulfilled, the city government gave him a unanimous vote of thanks and ordered the oration printed.
He has published, besides a multitude of articles in reviews, and occasional dis- courses, the following books : "Symbolic History of the Cross of Christ"; "The Poetry of the Orient," a volume of trans- lations from the Persian, Arabic and San- scrit tongues (four editions); " The Genius of Solitude " (eleven editions) ; "The Friendship of Women " (eleven editions) ; "A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life " (fourteen editions) ; "The Life of Edwin Forrest, the American Tragedian, with a History of the Dramatic Art"-two royal octavo volumes. He is now preparing for publication a work in two vol- umes entitled, "The Greatness of Human Nature and the Glory of Human Life."
ALLEN, ALEXANDER VIETS GRISWOLD, the son of Rev. Ethan and Lydia Child (Burr) Allen, was born in Otis, Berkshire county, May 4, 1841.
His early education was received in the public schools of Nantucket. He entered Kenyon College, Ohio, 1859, and was grad- uated therefrom 1862. He began his theological studies in the Theological Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, and pursued them later on in Andover Theological Seminary, graduating therefrom 1865.
Mr. Allen was ordained deacon in 1865 and priest in 1866. He became rector of St. John's Church, Lawrence, the same year, this church having been established by him as a mission in 1865.
In 1867 he was called to the profes- sorship of ecclesiastical history in the Episcopal theological school, Cambridge, where he has since remained.
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dresses, as well as being appointed to stump during state and national cam- paigns. In behalf of the Plymouth Woolen Company he argued in favor of the con- stitutionality of the "act permitting mu- nicipal officers to authorize manufacturers to ring bells and use whistles and gongs for the benefit of their workmen."
As counsel for the Lancaster Bank, he succeeded in recovering the securities stolen from its vaults. He organized the Lynn Electric Lighting Company under the Thomson-Houston patents, and is still one of its directors.
ALLEN, FREDERICK SLOCUM, son of Holden and Mary Devoll (Slocum) Allen, was born in Westport, Bristol county, December 25, 1837.
His early educational advantages were limited to the district schools of Fairhaven.
Before he was quite seventeen years of age, he shipped on a whaling voyage to the Arctic Ocean, and sailed from New Bedford, November 3, 1856, in the ship "Saratoga "- Frederick Slocum, master. He was connected with the whaling busi- ness some three years and a half. This business he left in 1860. As his father held a commission as pilot for the ports of Buzzard's Bay, he then assisted him in that business as boat-keeper for about ten years, as also previous to his whaling voyage, some five years. He then spent considerable time and money in improv- ing windlasses. Several models were on exhibition at the National Museum at Washington.
For several years he has been quite actively engaged in town affairs, and for fourteen years he has held a commission as justice of the peace. He has given special attention to the saving of life from shipwreck, and in 1887, at the Interna- tional Maritime Exposition at Havre, France, he was awarded a silver medal for a reversible life-boat.
Mr. Allen was married in Martha's Vineyard, November, 1860, to Florencia C. Austin. They have one son: Frederick Allen. His residence is Cuttyhunk Island, Dukes County.
ALLEN, HORACE G., son of Stephen M. Allen, was born at Jamaica Plain (Boston), July 27, 1855.
His preparatory studies were pursued in the common schools. He was gradu- ated I.I.B. from the Harvard law school in 1876; then became associated with Nathan Morse, Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1877. Later, he
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became law partner with Mr. Morse, under the firm name of Morse & Allen, with whom he still remains in practice of the law.
Mr. Allen was married in Brunswick, Me, April 28, 1881, to Grace D., daughter of Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain.
Mr. Allen is a member of the Boston Art Club, Boston Athletic Association, and Cur- tis Club. In 1888 and '89 he was elected
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a member of the Boston common coun- cil, and in the latter year, after a protracted contest, was chosen president of that body, January 1Ith. In this responsible position he has displayed marked ability, and has already acquired a reputation for tact and fairness greatly to his credit. His resi- dence is in Roxbury.
ALLEN, JOSEPH HENRY, was born August 21, 1820, in Northborough, Wor- cester county, where his father (Joseph, born in Medfield, 1790, on the old home- stead at Castle Hill, occupied since 1649 and still by the Allen family) was settled as minister of the town in 1816, and remain- ed pastor of the First Parish till his death in 1873. His mother (Lucy Clark, born in Hingham, 1791, died 1866) was daughter of Prof. Henry Ware of Harvard University (1805-1845). He is seventh in descent, by the maternal line, of a series of Massa- chusetts Congregational ministers, includ-
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ing Thomas Clark, Chelmsford : John Hancock, Lexington ; Nicholas Bowes, Bedford ; Jonas Clark, Lexington ; Henry Ware, Hingham; Joseph Allen, Northbor- ough. The Allen family has been remark- able for the number of teachers and preachers born to the blood.
The early education of the subject of our sketch was received in district schools and country occupations until the age of thirteen. He entered Harvard College at sixteen, having had little or no regular preparatory instruction, and was graduated in 1840, third in his class -the first rank being held by Prof. John B. Henck, the
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second by Judge George P. Sanger. Graduating from the Harvard divinity school in 1843, he was settled as minister of the Third parish in Roxbury (Jamaica Plain), 1843, in Washington, D. C., 1847, and in Bangor, Me., 1850. Leaving Ban- gor in 1857, he was till 1863 engaged in private instruction at Jamaica Plain, then till 1866 in a parish charge in North- borough ; since 1867 he has resided at Cambridge.
He was for twelve years (until its dis- continuance at the end of 1869) connected with the " Christian Examiner " as literary editor, editor-in-chief, and joint proprie- tor ; then for eight years engaged in pri-
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vate tuition, and in editing the " Allen & Greenough Classical Series " (Ginn & Co., Boston). In 1877 and '78 he had charge of the Unitarian church at Ann Arbor, Mich., and was then appointed lecturer on ecclesiastical history in Harvard Univer- sity, which post he held till 1882. In 1883 and '84 he was engaged in profes- sional work in Ithaca, N. Y., spent part of 1885 in California, and has since 1887 been editor of the "Unitarian Review" (George H. Ellis, Boston). He was, in August, 1881, delegate of the American and of the British and Foreign Unitarian Associations, at the session of the supreme consistory of the Unitarian churches of Hungary, held in Kolozsvar (Klausenburg), Transylvania.
Besides various fugitive addresses and reviews, including a series of articles on national questions written for the " Chris- tian Examiner " during the civil war, his published volumes are : " Ten Discourses on Orthodoxy " (1849, second edition, 1889), " Memorial of Hiram Withington" (1849), "The Great Controversy of States and People " (1851), "Hebrew Men and Times, from the Patriarchs to the Messiah" (1861, second edition, with critical intro- duction, 1879, Roberts Brothers), "Frag- ments of Christian History to the Found- ing of the Holy Roman Empire " ( 1880), "Our Liberal Movement in Theology" (1882), "Christian History in Its Three Great Periods" (3 volumes, 1883), " Out- line of Christian History, A. D. 50-1880" (1884), and the "Allen & Greenough Classical Series."
Prof. Allen was married in May, 1845, to Anna Minot Weld, a descendant of Thomas Welde, first minister of Roxbury, and sister of the late Hon. Stephen M. Weld. Of this union are five children : Richard Minot (Ames, Neb.), Gardner Weld (M. D., Boston), Russell Carpenter (El Cajon, So. California), Lucy Clark (Mrs. Charles S. Gage), and Mary Ware.
ALLEN, MONTRESSOR TYLER, son of George W. and Mary L. ( Tyler ) Allen, was born in Woburn, Middlesex county, May 20, 1844.
His education embraced the instruction and training of public schools, Warren Academy, private tutors, a special course in Boston University, and a full legal course in the Boston University law school, having been graduated from the latter institution in the class of 1878.
From 1867 10 1870 Mr. Allen was en- gaged in mercantile work at Woburn. Previous to this, he had seen a short term
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of service in the 5th Massachusetts regi- ment, 1864. Upon being admitted to the bar in 1879, he opened an office in Boston, where he is at present engaged in practice, still retaining his residence in Woburn
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Mr. Allen was married in Boston, in June, 1865, to Julia Frances, daughter of John and Ruth ( Magoun ) Peasley. They have no children.
Mr. Allen was a member of the House of Representatives 1888-'89, serving the former year on the House committee on finance, the joint committee on expendi- tures, and in the latter as chairman of the House committee on railroads, perform- ing conspicuous service in the support and successful passage of the many im- portant measures reported by that com- mittee.
He is a member of Mt. Horeb lodge of Masons, Woburn, and has served on the local board of registrars of voters for five years.
ALLEN, NATHANIEL TOPLIFF, son of Ellis and Lucy ( Lane) Allen, was born in Medfield, Norfolk county, Sept. 29, 1823. His native homestead farm has been owned and tilled by seven generations of Allens, noted for longevity, sterling common-sense, and rugged worth ; and there, during his
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boyhood, the subject of this sketch fol- lowed the pursuits of his ancestors, and laid the foundation of a vigorous con- stitution. Three years of his minority were spent in a Waltham cotton mill, where he acquired a knowledge of textile manu- facture ; he also received a good common- school education in the public schools, a family school kept by Rev. Joseph Allen at Northborough, and Northfield Aca- demy.
Having chosen to become a teacher, hc continued his studies in the Bridgewater state normal school, and Rensselaer Poly- technic Institute at Troy, N. Y. He after- wards taught in the various public schools of Mansfield, Northborough, Northfield and Shrewsbury, until the spring of 1848, when he was appointed by Horace Mann, of the state board of education, to take charge of the model department of the normal school at West Newton. This position he filled with marked ability for nearly six years, when he established in connection with Rev. Cyrus Pierce,
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father of American normal schools, the institution of which he is now principal -the West Newton English and classical school.
Mr. Allen has been one of the most pro- gressive and successful educators of the
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last half-century, always advocating the liberal and thorough education of both sexes, and ready to introduce into his own school whatever proved to be sound in theory and useful in practice. This school, with its industrial department at the home- stead in Medfield, draws students from a wide region - the last enrollment showing boys and girls from seventeen of the United States, from Cuba, Buenos Ayres, Spain and Italy.
During a busy life in the class-room, Mr. Allen has held many other positions of responsibility and trust ; he has been pres- ident of the board of direction of Pomroy Newton Home for Orphans and Destitute Girls ever since it was founded, sixteen years ago ; he was trustee of the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a member of the committee of examination in natural science at Harvard.
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