Joseph Alden

Joseph Alden (1807–1885) was an American academic and Presbyterian pastor. He served as professor of rhetoric, political economy, and history at Williams College from 1835 to 1852, professor of mental and moral philosophy at Lafayette College from 1852 to 1857, and president of Jefferson College from 1857 to 1862. Later, he was principal of the State Normal School at Albany, New York, from 1867 to 1882.[1]