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Church
  
Presbyterian

Name
  
Joseph Alden

Children
  
William L. Alden


Joseph Alden

Born
  
January 4, 1807
Cairo, New York

Congregations served
  
Congregational Church of Williamstown, Massachusetts

Offices held
  
8thpresident of Jefferson College (1857–1862) 1stpresident of State Normal School at Albany (1867–1882)

Died
  
August 30, 1885, New York City, New York, United States

Education
  
Columbia University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Union College

Books
  
Christian Ethics; Or - The Scie, Alden's Citizen's Manual, Rupert Cabell: And Othe, Elements of Intellectu

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), and Thoughts on the Religious Life (1879).

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. 

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