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Alden (name)
Alden as both a given name and a surname originated in the Old English language. The name can derive from '' Ealdwine'' (meaning "old friend") or (in the Scottish Borders) from ''Healfdene''. People with the surname * Alvin Alden (1818–1882), American politician * Blanche Ray Alden (1870–1934), American musician and composer * Charles Henry Alden (1836–1906), American military officer * Chris Alden, American entrepreneur * Christopher Alden (director) (born 1944), American theatre director * Cynthia May Alden (1862–1931), American journalist, author, and municipal employee * David Alden (born 1949), American theatre and film director * Edward Alden (born 1961), American-Canadian journalist and policy analyst * Emily Gilmore Alden (1834–1914), American author and educator * George I. Alden (1843–1926), American mechanical engineer and educator * Ginger Alden, American actress and model * Harold Alden (1890–1964), American astronomer * Henry Mills Alden (1836–191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, mea ...) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Alden
Harold Lee Alden (January 10, 1890 – February 3, 1964) was an American astronomer. Early years and education Harold Lee Alden was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 1912 and his master's from the University of Chicago in 1913. From 1912 to 1913 he was an assistant in the photographic photometry program at the Yerkes Observatory. He received his Ph.D. in 1917 from the University of Virginia. Professional life He worked for twenty years at the Yacle Observatory in South Africa before returning to the University of Virginia. He is noted mainly for measuring stellar parallax, the proper motion of stars and long period variable stars. The crater Alden on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. He returned to the University of Virginia in 1945 to become a Professor of Astronomy, chairman of the Astronomy Department and Director of the Leander McCormick Observatory. In 1951 he was the vice-president of the Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Alden
Mary Maguire Alden (June 18, 1883 – July 2, 1946) was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood. Life Alden was born in New York City on June 18, 1883. She performed on Broadway in ''Personal'' (1907) and ''The Rule of Three'' (1914). She worked for the Biograph Company and Pathé Exchange in the first portion of her career. Her most popular role in movies came in ''The Birth of a Nation'' directed by D.W. Griffith in 1915. Alden played the role of a mulatto woman in love with a northern politician. The following year she was in Griffith's '' Intolerance'' with Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, and Vera Lewis. After making ''Less Than The Dust'' with Mary Pickford in 1917, she took a temporary leave from motion pictures, acting for a while on the stage. Critics acclaimed Alden's portrayal of the mother, Mrs. Anthon, in ''The Old Nest'' (1921) and her characterization of an old lady in ''The Man With Two Mothers'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Morris Chaffee Alden
Lucy Morris Chaffee Alden (, Chaffee; November 20, 1836 - December 20, 1912) was a 19th-century American author, educator, and hymnwriter of the long nineteenth century. Over 200 of her works appeared in various periodicals. Biography Lucy Morris Chaffee was born in South Wilbraham, New Hampden, Massachusetts, November 20, 1836. Her parents were Daniel Davis and Sarah Flynt Chaffee. Among her maternal ancestors was Judge John Bliss, of South Wilbraham, who on April 8, 1775, was appointed sole committee "to repair to Connecticut to request that Colony to co-operate with Massachusetts for the general defense", and who, under the constitution was chosen to the first and several succeeding senates. Alden spent a year at Monson Academy. There was a sister, Catherine Newell Chaffee (1835-1873). For 10 years, Alden taught school, and for three years, she served as a member of the school board of her native town. She was left alone by the death of her mother in 1884. In July 1890, she ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Alden
Priscilla Kay Alden (born October 24, 1946) is an American television writer and the former head writer for the soap opera, ''The Young and the Restless''. Career Alden began writing for ''The Young and the Restless'' as a script writer in 1974 while researching her dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madisonbr>She was promoted to associate head writer in 1987, then to co-head writer in 1997 She took over as head writer the following year when series co-creator William J. Bell stepped down from the position. With Alden as head writer, the show lost about two million viewers (most of the loss occurred in 2004 when Alden co-wrote the show with longtime ''Y&R'' scribe and producer John F. Smith), but all soap operas during that period experienced a similar scale of massive audience erosion. She quit ''The Young and the Restless'' in late 2006, and was then hired by Brian Frons, president of ABC Daytime, to consult on its serials ''All My Children'', '' General Hospital'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Alden
Joseph Alden (January 4, 1807 – August 30, 1885) was an American academic and 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. 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. He received the degree of D.D. from Union College in 1839, and that of LL.D. from Columbia University in 1857. Career He was tutor at the 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. He was also a teacher in the Dedham Public Schools. In 1834 he married Isabel G. Livingston, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Gilbert R. Livingston, of Philadelphia, and three years later, he bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Richard Alden
John Richard Alden (23 January 1908, Grand Rapids, Michigan – 14 August 1991, Clearwater, Florida) was an American historian and author of a number of books on the era of the American Revolutionary War. Biography Alden graduated from the University of Michigan with A.B. in 1929), M.A. in 1930, and Ph.D. in 1939. After teaching at Michigan State Normal College (now called Eastern Michigan University), and subsequently at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, he taught at the University of Nebraska from 1945 to 1955. He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1955, where he chaired the Department of History from 1957 to 1960, and in 1963 was appointed James B. Duke Professor of History. He retired from Duke University in 1976. He also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. He was a reviewer for the ''New York Times Book Review''. In 1934, Alden married Pearl B. Wells (1906–1979). In 1980 he married Kathleen C. Smith, who died in 1990. Upon his death in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alden (sailor)
Capt. John Alden Jr. (ca. 1626 or 1627 – homepages.rootsweb.com; accessed January 20, 2019.His gravestone, which used the and the Annunciation Style of enumerating years with dual dating, recorded his death as having occurred on March 14, 1701/2: "Here lyeth ye body of John Alden Senior aged 75 years deceased March ye 14 1701/2". See also |
John Alden
John Alden (c. 1598 - September 12, 1687) was a crew member on the historic 1620 voyage of the ''Mayflower'' which brought the English settlers commonly known as Pilgrims to Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, US. He was hired in Southampton, England, as the ship's cooper, responsible for maintaining the ship's barrels. Although he was a member of the ship's crew and not a settler, Alden decided to remain in Plymouth Colony when the ''Mayflower'' returned to England. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact. He married fellow ''Mayflower'' passenger Priscilla Mullins, whose entire family perished in the first winter in Plymouth Colony. The marriage of the young couple became prominent in Victorian popular culture after the 1858 publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's fictitious narrative poem ''The Courtship of Miles Standish.'' The book inspired widespread depictions of John and Priscilla Alden in art and literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. Alden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Alden
Jerome Alden (March 5, 1921 – May 4, 1997) was an American playwright and screenwriter for television and documentary films. He was born in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon. He wrote the one-man play ''Bully'', about Theodore Roosevelt, and the book for the musical ''Teddy & Alice'', which was also about the Roosevelt family. Both productions appeared on Broadway. Alden was married to a ballerina, Barbara Gaye, who danced in the original Broadway productions of '' Annie Get Your Gun'' and ''Our Town''. They were the parents of opera directors Christopher Alden and David Alden David Alden (born 1949 in New York City) is a prolific theater and film director known for his post-modernist settings of opera. He is the twin brother of Christopher Alden, also an opera director in the revisionist mold. The two brothers have cove .... References Writers from Portland, Oregon University of Oregon alumni 1921 births 1997 deaths 20th-century America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Alden Jr
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabella Macdonald Alden
Isabella Macdonald Alden (nickname and pen name, Pansy; November 3, 1841 – August 5, 1930) was an American author. Her best known works were: ''Four Girls at Chautauqua'', ''Chautauqua Girls at Home'', ''Tip Lewis and his Lamp'', ''Three People'', ''Links in Rebecca's Life'', ''Julia Reid'', ''Ruth Erskine's Crosses'', ''The King's Daughter'', ''The Browning Boys'', ''From Different Standpoints'', ''Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening'', ''The Measure'', and ''Spun from Fact''. She also wrote the primary lesson department of the ''Westminster Teacher'', edited the ''Presbyterian Primary Quarterly'' and the children's magazine ''Pansy'', and wrote a serial story for the ''Herald and Presbyter'' of Cincinnati every winter. Alden was interested in Sunday school primary teaching, and had charge of more than a hundred children every Sunday for many years. She was interested in temperance also, and was involved in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Four of her books, ''Three People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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