Robert alden biography
Robert alden attorney!
Robert Alden
American Congregational minister (1836-1911)
Edwin Hyde "Robert" Alden (January 14, 1836 – May 6, 1911) was an American Congregationalminister.
He was one of the many real people upon whom Laura Ingalls Wilder based a character in the Little House on the Prairie series of books and the NBCtelevision series of the same name.
Robert alden biography
Life and work
Alden was born in Windsor, Vermont. He was the founding pastor of the First Congregational Church of Waseca, Minnesota in 1868, the first organized church in that town. Alden was later the minister at the Congregational Church in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, which was described in the book "On the Banks of Plum Creek".
He was a home missionary, having a church in the East, involved in planting new churches on the western frontier, such as the one in Walnut Grove which he founded in 1875. Charles and Caroline Ingalls were among the first baptized members.
When the Ingalls family left Walnut Grove, they were convinc