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| name          = Joseph Alden
| image         = Joseph Alden.jpg
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1807|01|04}}
| birth_place   = [[Cairo, New York]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1885|08|30|1807|01|04}}
| death_place   = [[New York City]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Green-Wood Cemetery]], New York, U.S.
| education     = [[Brown University]]<br />[[Princeton Theological Seminary]]<br />[[Union College]] <small>([[A.B.]], [[D.D.]])</small><br />[[Columbia University]] <small>([[LL.D.]])</small>
| employer      = {{plainlist|
* 8th president of [[Washington & Jefferson College|Jefferson College]] (1857–1862) 
* 1st president of [[University at Albany, SUNY|State Normal School at Albany]] (1867–1882)
}}
| spouse        = Isabel G. Livingston (1816–1872)
| children      = [[William Livingston Alden]] (1837–1908)
| parents       = Eliab Alden (1760–1844, father) <br />Mary Hathaway Alden (1766–1859, mother)
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  | church      = [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]]
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  | ordained    = 
  | writings    = 
  | congregations = Congregational Church of [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]]
  }}
| footnotes     = 
}}
'''Joseph Alden''' (January 4, 1807 – August 30, 1885) was an American academic and [[Presbyterianism|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.<ref name="BDA1906" /> 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.<ref name="BDA1906" />

He received the degree of [[D.D.]] from Union College in 1839, and that of [[LL.D.]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1857.<ref name="BDA1906" />

==Career==
He was tutor at the [[College of New Jersey (18th Century)|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.<ref name="BDA1906" /> He was also a teacher in the [[Dedham Public Schools]].<ref name="Slafter" /> 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]].

Dr. Alden was professor of rhetoric, political economy, and history at [[Williams College]] from 1835 to 1852, professor of mental and moral philosophy in [[Lafayette College]], from 1852 to 1857, when he became president of [[Washington and Jefferson College|Jefferson College]], from 1857 to 1862.<ref name="BDA1906" /> He was stated supply, [[Boiling Springs Township, Bergen County, New Jersey|Boiling Spring, New Jersey]], from 1863 to 1865, editor [[N.Y. Observer]] in 1866, and principal of the State Normal School at [[Albany, New York]] (now [[University at Albany, SUNY]]), from 1867 to 1882.<ref name="BDA1906" />

Dr. Alden has long been prominently before the public as a leading educator and writer on educational topics. His services, both literary and administrative, entitle him to the high rank which he holds as the head of one of the oldest and strongest of the state institutions for the education and training of teachers.<ref name="Hart1877" /> He died in [[New York City]], on August 30, 1885.<ref name="BDA1906" /> He is interred with his wife at [[Green-Wood Cemetery]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alden |first=Ebenezer |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AGV3178.0001.001 |title=Memorial of the descendants of the Hon. John Alden. |date=2006}}</ref>

==Works==
Dr Alden besides his large work as an educator has been diligent in the use of his pen writing almost constantly for the periodical press and sending out at intervals instructive volumes for the benefit of his generation, were his earlier works were mostly for the young.<ref name="Hart1877" /> Besides over seventy [[Sunday School]] library books, 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, with an introduction by [[William Cullen Bryant]]<ref name="BDA1906" />).<ref name="washjeff" />

===Selected works===
*{{cite book| last = Alden| first = Joseph| title = The Life of the Prophet Jeremiah| publisher=The Massachusetts Sunday School Society| date = 1835| location = Massachusetts| pages = [https://archive.org/details/lifeofprophetjer00alde/page/47 47]| url = https://archive.org/details/lifeofprophetjer00alde}}
*{{cite book| last = Alden| first = Joseph| title = Thoughts on the Religious Life| publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons| date = 1879| location = New York| pages = [https://archive.org/details/thoughtsonrelig00aldegoog/page/n136 133]| url = https://archive.org/details/thoughtsonrelig00aldegoog}}
*{{cite book| last = Alden| first = Joseph| title = Alden's Citizen's Manual: A Text-book on Government, for Common Schools| publisher=Sheldon & Co.| date = 1872| location = New York| pages = [https://archive.org/details/aldenscitizensm00aldegoog/page/n149 141]| url = https://archive.org/details/aldenscitizensm00aldegoog}}
*{{cite book| last = Alden| first = Joseph| title = Christian Ethics; Or, The Science of Duty| publisher=Ivison, Phinnet, Blakeman Co.| date = 1866| location = New York| pages = [https://archive.org/details/christianethics00aldegoog/page/n172 173]| url = https://archive.org/details/christianethics00aldegoog}}
*{{cite book| last = Alden| first = Joseph| title = The Science of Government in Connection with American Institutions| publisher=Sheldon & Company| date = 1886| location = New York & Chicago| pages = [https://archive.org/details/sciencegovernme01aldegoog/page/n306 304]| url = https://archive.org/details/sciencegovernme01aldegoog}}

==Further reading==
*''Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896.'' Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
*{{cite book| title = The Publishers' Weekly| volume = 28| publisher=F. Leypold| date = 1885| pages = 274| chapter = Obituary. Rev. Dr. Joseph Alden| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_3gWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA274| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_3gWAAAAMAAJ}}

==References==

===Citations===
{{Reflist| refs=
<ref name="Hart1877">{{harvnb|Hart|1877|p=288}}</ref>
<ref name="BDA1906">{{harvnb|Johnson|1906|p=71}}</ref>
<ref name="Slafter">{{harvnb|Slafter|1905}}</ref>
<ref name="washjeff">{{harvnb|U. Grant Miller Library 2003}}&nbsp;{{dead link|date=November 2020}}</ref>
}}

===Sources===
* {{cite book
 | last         = Hart
 | first        = John Seely
 | title        = A Short Course in Literature, English and American
 | year         = 1877
 | location     = Philadelphia
 | publisher    = Eldredge & Brother
 | pages        = 288
 | chapter      = Dr. Alden
 | chapter-url   = https://books.google.com/books?id=lFsZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288
 | url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=lFsZAAAAYAAJ
}}
* {{BDA1906 |wstitle= Alden, Joseph |volume= 1 |page=71 |short=}}
* {{cite book
 | last         = Slafter
 | first        = Carlos
 | title        = A Record of Education: The Schools and Teachers of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1644-1904
 | year         = 1905
 | location     = Dedham, Mass.
 | publisher    = Dedham Transcript Press
 | url          = https://archive.org/details/recordofeducatio00slaf2
 | access-date  = January 8, 2019
}}
* {{cite web
 |title       = Joseph Alden (1857–1862)
 |work        = U. Grant Miller Library Digital Archives
 |publisher   = Washington & Jefferson College
 |date        = 2003-09-04
 |url         = http://washjeff.cdmhost.com/u?/p4019coll8,17
 |access-date = 2010-05-31
 |ref         = {{harvid|U. Grant Miller Library 2003}}
}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

==External links==
*{{cite web| title = Alden Hall| work = M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives| publisher = [[University at Albany, SUNY]]| date = 2003| url = http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/campusbuildings/alden.htm| access-date = March 22, 2009| archive-date = February 23, 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090223111259/http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/campusbuildings/alden.htm| url-status = dead}}
*{{Find a Grave|59825897}}

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