When Elliot D Alden was born in April 1854, in Avoca, Avoca, Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Alden, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Blake, was 20. He married Charlotte Amelia "Lottie" Hoyt in 1880. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Avoca, Steuben, New York, United States for about 15 years and Bath, Steuben, New York, United States for about 45 years. He died on 19 December 1925, in Bath, Bath, Steuben, New York, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Nondaga Cemetery, Bath, Steuben, New York, United States.
English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either Aldwin, Aldin (representing Old English Ealdwine with loss of -w-) or Middle English Alwin with an intrusive -d- (see Alwin ), or Aldan, a variant of the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Healfdene (see Haldane ).
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because of its situation below a high mountain Alden, from an unattested word ‘high, standing out’.
History: John Alden (c. 1599–1687) was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He moved from Plymouth to Duxbury, MA, c. 1627. Many of his descendants were merchant seamen, among them James Alden (1810–77), who twice circumnavigated the globe.
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