When Alfred Ernest Alderman was born on 14 January 1887, in Valley City, Barnes, North Dakota, United States, his father, John Alderman, was 35 and his mother, Jane Pyzer, was 40. He married Rosa M. Wakefield on 17 February 1913, in Barnes, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Anderson Township, Barnes, North Dakota, United States in 1930 and Ashtabula Township, Barnes, North Dakota, United States in 1940. He died in 1973, at the age of 86.