S. M. ALDEN

ALDEN

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/23/2009 at 18:27:53

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

S. M. ALDEN, millinery and dress-making, Main Street; residence same; born in Stark Co., Ill., in 1845; moved to Clark Co., Iowa, in 1857; thence to Franklin Co., Ark., in 1864; thence to this county in 1874, and commenced her present business in the spring of 1877. Married G. C. Alden in 1861; he was born in Ohio in 1835. Own their residence and place of business in Moulton, 190 acres of land in Franklin Co., Ark., as well as land in Kansas, their total tax the past year being $511.60. Mr. Alden was formerly practicing law, but more recently merchandising, and still more recently invented an article long needed in the country - a steamer for steaming food for stock, and is at the present writing in the West with his invention; was at one time County Clerk of Franklin County; also Justice of the Peace while in that county and appointed weigher of cotton in Third Collector's District of Arkansas, and was Postmaster at Ozark, Kansas. Enlisted in the 18th I.V.I., Co. B, as Sergeant; was transferred to the 2d Ark. V.I., as Captain, June 28, 1864, having raised a company for that regiment; participated at Springfield, Mo., and others; mustered out at Clarksville, Ark., in August 1865; was about to be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, when mustered out at the close of the war. He is a member of I.O.O.F., of Ozark; she is a Daughter of Rebecca. Have five children - Edwin C., Cora Bell, Effie R., Charles, and Frank.