The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13

Alden, lived to tho ieiss yssr from the ssttie'
He had a sister nearly the same. age"
John Alden Of New Bedford. Mass, who was
SSFn 81 's sSS p iliS2Ginsusis q sa Sifq 10 have s', Stts sGs ], lf the
age OF 1903 years. His great,grandson-Henry
sherman Aiden-Eesides IN Chautepaua county
nineteen. children, the oldest Of whom was the
granddaughter Of Henry, sherman Alden. who
father tell about his father going ON board
a gunboat lying in New Bedford harbor on one
o 9 cas AND and a the e., Captain SdSdn q So the navy ore ordered sOsi
that he was a centenarian, being at that time
ance and manner, resembles more nearly than
any Alden dc now LYING <, PeThapsii MS f9 a %ay a N
himself, for he is n bachelor of 40, and lives all
alone in an old, weather.beaten farmhouse
try road, not far from Chautauqua Lake. the
seat.of the summer university; The place has al.
Is a district schoolhousc near by, and opposite
is a picturesque country church. Recently,
the Government has given the place a legal
Post ofico in the United States, not more than
Alden aS1en has tsm bees ffS Installed inS as P %st sastsi He He
is an exceedingly wcll.read man, with courtly.
dsignined manners, and Possessing hat same g
phrascs' which Longfellow ascribes to the Puri.
tan John Alden. Stored away In his ancient
he has resided for the past half century, Mr..
Alden has some curious and valuable memon-
toes which y iSh VII doubtless eventually fin find II their ,Sr
present head of the family intends to establish
at Duxbury. Among these souvenirs is an old,
Plymouth from a tribe OF Indians near the Puri-
tan settlement. 1t has been handed down from
6uckskin Of which the heel and sole are woven
stamps the letters daily on an old fali.leaf table
Monroe, in the .stateroom Of the vessel in which
Monroe made his voy ige across the ocean to
P reside ! H JefFerso me- S Mr.. S xiden NJ s Fi%adfft
Of the ship, in which Monroe, took passage.
cast lots for the furnishings, and this table fell
to, Capt. Alden. A large mirror framed in tor.
toise shell which was brought over from Am.
sterdam, in 1902 by some member of the Alden
family hangs on the wall. Its original cost.
saS, was sas an Sxt ira ,bSn sona,d to pay . in b thSse
large family: Bible printed In I7S6s' by Mark
Maiefty; and by the ,Affignf of Robert Bark
e |. the inscription informs Us. In this
broken bro s,0t Clasps Tlsn is ss the Moffa family 1fS.I record pnI reaching hing
back 20 the date OF his grandfather's, birth,
Feb. 8, l741, and, recording the fact that, he
married Lois Southworth in 1865 and lived to
History shows that the Aldens have been a
Sherman Alden, was n good student. He went
through Providence University and was a class
mate Of Adoniram J9dson; the missionary to
urmah In an ancient bookcase Mr.. Alden
has a library of his fathers Greek, and Latin
tionary published in 1897. has Inscribed on the
f1yleaf. Nathan Alden's Liber." Although a
farmer, he never lost his love of study. II
have known him to fasten u Latin book into the
plough handle" says his son, land study while
he pushed the ploughsharc.'
Not far from the old homestead at Duxbury
Is the old. original cemetery, where many Of
the Alden family lie buried. Here. 100. is the
grave OF Miles Standish, who died Oct. 3. 1856,
aged ~,