Joseph Alden

Joseph Alden (January 4, 1807 – August 30, 1885) was an American academic and Presbyterian pastor. Education Alden was born in Cairo, New York, on January 4, 1807, and he began there to teach school when fourteen years of age, in order to pay his way through college. He was thus enabled to attend Brown University, from 1826 to 1827, and received his bachelor's degree from Union College in 1829, going on to studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary until 1831. He received the degree of D.D. from Union College in 1839, and that of LL.D. from Columbia University in 1857. Career He was tutor at the College of New Jersey, from 1831 to 1833, when was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church, July 3, 1834, and became a pastor at Williamstown, Massachusetts, from 1834 to 1836. He was also a teacher in the Dedham Public Schools. In 1834 he married Isabel G. Livingston, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Gilbert R. Livingston, of Philadelphia, and three years later, he became father of a son, William Livingston Alden.