Joseph Alden

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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)

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

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.

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) & Thoughts on the Religious Life (1879).^[1]

Selected works

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

References

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.

↑ "Joseph Alden (1857–1862)". U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives. Washington & Jefferson College. 2003-09-04.

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

Presidents of Washington & Jefferson College

<font color=#FFFFFFface=Arial>Founding and early leadership

John McMillan Thaddeus Dod Joseph Smith

Jefferson College

John Watson (1802–1802) James Dunlap (1803–1811) Andrew Wylie (1812–1816) William McMillan (1817–1822) Matthew Brown (1822–1845) Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1845–1847) Alexander Blaine Brown (1847–1856) Joseph Alden (1857–1862) David Hunter Riddle (1862–Union of the Colleges)

Washington College

Matthew Brown (1806–1817) Andrew Wylie (1817–1828) David Elliott (1830–1831) David McConaughy (1831–1849) James Clark (1850–1852) James I. Brownson (Pro Tem. 1852–1853) John W. Scott (1852–Union of the Colleges)

Washington & Jefferson College

Jonathan Edwards (1866–1869)
Samuel J. Wilson (Pro Tem. 1869)
James I. Brownson (Pro Tem. 1870)
George P. Hays (1870–1881)
James D. Moffat (1881–1915)
Frederick W. Hinitt (1915–1918)
William E. Slemmons (Pro Tem. 1918–1919)
Samuel Charles Black (1919–1921)
Simon Strousse Baker (1922–1931)
Ralph Cooper Hutchinson (1931–1945)
James Herbert Case, Jr. (1946–1950)
Boyd Crumrine Patterson (1950–1970)
Howard Jerome Burnett (1971–1998)
Brian C. Mitchell (1998–2004)
G. Andrew Rembert (Pro Tem. 2004)
Tori Haring-Smith (2005–present)

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Persondata
Name	Alden, Joseph
Alternative names
Short description	Academic and pastor
Date of birth	January 4, 1807
Place of birth	Cairo, New York
Date of death	August 30, 1885
Place of death

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