When Albert Lockwood Alderman was born on 16 December 1820, in Connecticut, United States, his father, Isaac Alderman, was 37 and his mother, Rachel de Forest, was 29. He married Mary Jane Burns on 24 March 1850, in Yamhill, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Yamhill, Oregon, United States in 1860 and Oregon, United States in 1870. He died on 24 December 1908, in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.