Background
Alden, John Berry was born on March 2, 1847 in Henry County, Iowa, United States. Son of Zephania and Damaris (Thompson) Alden.
Alden, John Berry was born on March 2, 1847 in Henry County, Iowa, United States. Son of Zephania and Damaris (Thompson) Alden.
Common school education.
Editor public juvenile magazines, “The Bright Side” and “What Next?” Chicago, 1869-1873. Assistant editor public “Hearth and Home,” New York, 1874-1875. Began, 1879, as public classical and standard works, including, Chambers’s Encyclopedia, Library of Universal Knowledge.
Cyclo. of Universal Literature, Elzevir Library, et cetera
Also editor public Library Magazine, Good Literature. Retired, 1908. Author: The Book of the Farmers Republic, 1912.
Peace and Prosperity via Justice and Practical Sense, 1919. (with United States Senator Morris Sheppard) Universal Thrift and Prosperity.
(booklet) The National Farmers’ Economic Republic.
Author Industrial Savings Acting, introd. by Senator Morris Sheppard, of Texas Home: Neshanic, New Jersey.
Married Ellen Tracy, 1874 (died, 1880). Married second, Ada Tracy, 1882.