Dominee Alden
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Dominee Alden
Dominee Edwin H. Alden, geboren in Windsor/ Vermont op 14 januari 1836, was een belangrijke man in de Congregational Church in Walnut Grove. Hij had een kerk in het oosten maar was er nauw bij betrokken om nieuwe kerken op te zetten zoals in Walnut Grove.
De familie Ingalls had een trouwe vriendschap met Dominee Alden gedurende hun jaren in Walnut Grove en waren dan ook zeer verrast toen hij op de stoep stond in Dakota Territory.
Dominee Alden hield de eerste kerkdienst in De Smet in het huis van de familie Ingalls in februari 1880. Hierna ging hij naar het noorden en werd een agent in North Dakota. Hij trouwde twee keer en kreeg twee kinderen. Hij overleed op 6 mei 1911 in Chester/Vermont.
Rev. Edwin Alden (photo from the Mayflower Quarterly; Rev. A. was a descendant of John Alden & Priscilla Mullens) became minister of the Congregational Church in Waseca MN as Home Missionary today in 1868. He serviced the WG church as part ...of this mission field. (Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote that Ma and Pa were baptized by Reverend Alden when they joined the church in Walnut Grove.) --- Rev. Alden hadn't been very successful as a missionary to slaves during the Civil War in Georgia and Louisiana, nor was he held in much regard as a missionary to the Indians on reservation in Dakota Territory in the late 1870s. He ended up homesteading in Spink County after deserting his wife and two sons in Minnesota for a younger woman (Pa and Ma knew about this, but said they liked him anyway), and it's possible that he married his second wife without ever being divorced from his first. He remained in Dakota only until about 1890, but in one of the churches he served, a stained glass window was dedicated to him. And of course I can't find that info.... Ree Heights? Athol? Does anybody remember?
Dominee Edwin H. Alden, geboren in Windsor/ Vermont op 14 januari 1836, was een belangrijke man in de Congregational Church in Walnut Grove. Hij had een kerk in het oosten maar was er nauw bij betrokken om nieuwe kerken op te zetten zoals in Walnut Grove.
De familie Ingalls had een trouwe vriendschap met Dominee Alden gedurende hun jaren in Walnut Grove en waren dan ook zeer verrast toen hij op de stoep stond in Dakota Territory.
Dominee Alden hield de eerste kerkdienst in De Smet in het huis van de familie Ingalls in februari 1880. Hierna ging hij naar het noorden en werd een agent in North Dakota. Hij trouwde twee keer en kreeg twee kinderen. Hij overleed op 6 mei 1911 in Chester/Vermont.
Rev. Edwin Alden (photo from the Mayflower Quarterly; Rev. A. was a descendant of John Alden & Priscilla Mullens) became minister of the Congregational Church in Waseca MN as Home Missionary today in 1868. He serviced the WG church as part ...of this mission field. (Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote that Ma and Pa were baptized by Reverend Alden when they joined the church in Walnut Grove.) --- Rev. Alden hadn't been very successful as a missionary to slaves during the Civil War in Georgia and Louisiana, nor was he held in much regard as a missionary to the Indians on reservation in Dakota Territory in the late 1870s. He ended up homesteading in Spink County after deserting his wife and two sons in Minnesota for a younger woman (Pa and Ma knew about this, but said they liked him anyway), and it's possible that he married his second wife without ever being divorced from his first. He remained in Dakota only until about 1890, but in one of the churches he served, a stained glass window was dedicated to him. And of course I can't find that info.... Ree Heights? Athol? Does anybody remember?