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Cynthia May Westover Alden was born on May 31, 1862 in Afton, Iowa, united States. She was the only child of Oliver S. and Lucinda (Lewis) Westover. When Cynthia was three years old her mother died and thereafter she was for several years the constant companion of her father, a geologist and prospector, in his wanderings through the Rocky Mountains.
Alden acquired her early schooling and a knowledge of geology from her father, became a daring horsewoman and so expert a shot with the rifle that at the age of twelve she killed a buffalo. About that time her father placed her in school in Denver and at seventeen she was teaching a district school near that city. She took the normal course at the University of Colorado and studied mathematics in a Denver business college.
Alden had an excellent voice and in 1882 she went to New York, hoping to become an opera singer. At that time she was too poor to rent a piano and used a tuning-fork instead. For several years she sang in church choirs in New York but never realized her operatic ambitions, although she sang a few small parts at the Academy of Music.
In 1887 was appointed a United States Customs inspector, in which service she found her knowledge of French, German, Spanish, and Italian highly useful. Three years later she was appointed secretary to the commissioner of street cleaning of New York City, and she became known as "the poor man's friend" because of her interest in the street cleaners and her ability to talk to many who were foreign born in their own language.
In 1894 she became editor of the woman's department of the New York Recorder, where she remained until 1897. She then filled a similar position on the New York Tribune for three years, following this with ten years' service on the editorial staff of the Ladies' Home Journal, 1899-1909.
In 1896 Alden conceived the idea which brought her fame. It began with her sending Christmas cards--then not so common as later--to persons confined by illness or disability. She interested a group of fellow-workers in the Recorder office in the plan of passing their Christmas gifts on to those who would otherwise receive none, a practice which she and her father had adopted in their early days in the West. She built up a group of thirty men and women who joined her in this kindly gesture. Thus began in 1896 the Sunshine Society, the object of which was to bring happiness to as many persons as possible, and especially to the "forgotten" ones. The International Sunshine Society was incorporated on March 9, 1900, and for years consisted entirely of journalists and writers, but gradually others were taken in. By 1903 the society was said to have 100, 000 members and 3, 000 branches, many of them in foreign countries. The membership later increased to half a million, then decreased, and at the time of Mrs. Alden's death was given as 300, 000. In 1902 the New York unit of the society founded a small sanitarium at Bensonhurst, south of Brooklyn. The following year a Captain Roy, who had known Mrs. Alden when she was a child in the West, bequeathed $30, 000 to her, which she lent to the society to clear up the indebtedness on this sanitarium. The money was not repaid to her until shortly before her death. As the society imposed no dues upon its members, it had to rely entirely upon gifts for the support of itself and its philanthropies. In 1905 it acquired two large residences on Dyker Heights in Brooklyn, in which two years later it began to care for blind or nearly blind children. She established the Sunshine Arthur Home for blind babies in New Jersey in 1910, and in 1929 it was separately incorporated as the Arthur Sunshine Home and Nursery School for the Blind. Her book, The Baby Blind, published in 1915, testifies to her interest in this subject.
In 1914, owing to the society's disregard of provisions of state laws regulating charitable enterprises, the New York state board of charities investigated the society and found the handling of its finances lax and subject to criticism. Mrs. Alden was rebuked, but no formal charges were brought against her. Mrs. Alden continued as president of the International Sunshine Society until her death.
Alden distinguished herself as a United States Customs inspector who helped the poor and invented a handcart used by scavengers for collecting refuse from the city streets. Later Alden became notable as a philanthropist and founder of the International Sunshine Society, which came to own and operate homes for the aged, for blind and crippled children, homes and training schools for orphans, lunch and rest rooms for working women, hospital wards, libraries, summer lodges, and camps for city children. Alden campaigned particularly in behalf of the baby blind, and largely through her efforts, laws were passed in eighteen states for their care and for the prevention of infant blindness.
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On August 15, 1896, Alden was married to another journalist, John Alden, long an editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and a descendant of the famous John and Priscilla Alden of seventeenth-century Plymouth. They had no children. Their home, known as "the littlest house in Brooklyn, " was four stories high and only eight feet wide.
