The Biographical Dictionary of America/Alden, Edmund K.

ALDEN, Edmund K., clergyman, was born at Randolph, Mass., April 11, 1825, son of Ebenezer Alden, physician, who was of the seventh generation from John Alden of the Mayflower. The son was fitted for college at Randolph academy, and was graduated at Amherst in the class of 1844. He taught in Williston seminary the following year; and then entered the Andover theological seminary, and was graduated in 1848. He became an Abbott resident, and preached in various places in New England until he became pastor of the Phillips Church in 1859. He was a member of the prudential committee of the American board of foreign missions from 1869 to 1876, when he became secretary of the home department of the board. In addition to his office of secretary of the American board he held the office of trustee of Amherst college, and a similar office in relation to the theological seminary at Andover. He died in Boston, April 30, 1896.