Albert Alden (politician)
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Albert Alden | |
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| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Waukesha 1st district | |
| In office January 2, 1860 – January 7, 1861 | |
| Preceded by | Parker Sawyer |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Cottrell |
| In office January 4, 1858 – January 3, 1859 | |
| Preceded by | James M. Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Parker Sawyer |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Waukesha 3rd district | |
| In office January 1, 1849 – January 7, 1850 | |
| Preceded by | Chauncey G. Heath |
| Succeeded by | Pitts Ellis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 5, 1813 |
| Died | January 8, 1892 (aged 78) Delafield, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Resting place | Nashotah House Cemetery, Delafield, Wisconsin |
| Party | Republican Democratic (before 1854) |
| Spouse |
Caroline Alden (m. 1843) |
| Children |
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Albert Alden, Sr. (March 5, 1813 – January 8, 1892) was a farmer and merchant from Delafield, Wisconsin, who served three one-year terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, one each in the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s.[1][2]
Alden (a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Alden) was born in Portland, Maine, on March 5, 1811, and educated there. He went into the mercantile business, and in 1836, he went to New Orleans and worked as a clerk for a merchant there. In 1842 he moved to Wisconsin Territory and opened a general store in the village of Delafield (the first store in the Town of Delafield), which he ran until 1846. In December 1843, in Summit, he married Caroline Fairservice, a native of Oneida County, New York; they would go on to have four children. In 1844, he bought sixty acres of land straddling the Bark River from Milton Cushing (father of Alonzo, Howard, and William B. Cushing), and built a dam to create a millpond between Nagawicka Lake and Upper Nemahbin Lake to power a sawmill; the dam's removal (long after the mill was shut down) would become controversial in the early 21st century.[3][4]