CLASS OF 1852

Rev. Ezra Judson Alden died November 19 of apoplexy at his home in the city of Chicago. He was born in Lyme, N. H., Jan. 13, 1827, being the sixth of seven children of Ezra Alden and Clarissa Beal. He was only eight years old when his father died, and he obtained an education only after a severe struggle. His first year after graduation from college he taught at West Natick, Mass., after which he took a three year course at Andover Theological Seminary, supplemented by a year's study of law at Yale. Entering the Congregational ministry, he served as pastor at West Springfield, Mass., in 1858-9; at Sycamore, Ill., in 1860-3; at Naperville, Ill., in 1864; at Fostoria, Ohio (Presbyterian church), in 1865-8; at Rootstown, Ohio, in 1869-70; at Medina, Ohio, in 1870-4, where he resided for two years longer; at Covert, Mich., in 1877-8; at Woodstock, Ill., in 1879-81. He then went to Chicago, where he established and for six years maintained a Congregational bookstore, in the intention, which has proved highly successful, of forming a center for the distribution of denominational and other religious literature among the Western churches. Mr. Alden was of Pilgrim stock, of the eighth geneiation from John Alden of the Mayflower, and himself illustrated the rugged virtues of the fathers of New England. He was married, Dec. 29, 1859, to Helen Prances, daughter of Adna Storrs of Hanover, who died some years since. Two sons and two daughters survive their parents.

Secretary, Martin H. Fishe, Temple, N. H.