John Stanley Alden
JOHN STANLEY ALDEN, son of ANNA STANLEY and WILLIAM EDWIN ALDEN, was born March 17, 1922 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota,7377 and died August 14, 2013 in Florida.4717
Newspaper Articles
Miami Hurricane, November 30, 19459743
Adventurous John Alden XI Can Speak For Himself
Priscilla probably found a very charming person in her John Alden of days of yore, but she would undoubtedly find a more adventurous spirit and imaginative dreamer in her descendant John Stanley Alden, who is now attending the University of Miami.
At the age of twenty-four he is now able to look back on a life as full of experiences as that of a man fifty. Born in Minneapolis, Minn., a direct descendant in the eleventh generation of the chivalrous John Alden, he moved to Los Angeles at the tender age of two months, through no choice of his. He was content to lead a normal childhood until he was off on his own at fifteen. He then took a cattle-boat to England, where he toured the countryside alone on a bicycle for seven months.
Upon his return to the States John attended Lee Edwards High school in Asheville, N.C., for one year, after which he joined the Merchant Marine and spent seven months sailing around the Great Lakes. He soon tired of the salt air and sea spray and ventured forth to the big city of New York where he was a bellhop in the Waldorf-Astoria because he wanted a contrast of the atmosphere to that in Greenwich Village where he paid five dollars a week for a little garret overlooking Washington Square.
Finally tired of watching mothers push their baby-buggies through the park, and of carrying luggage, he left New York and worked in various sections of the country for three years doing construction work.
John served in the armed forces for three years, but he is mot reticent about discussing his military career; however, he states a preference for civilian life. Alden has writing aspirations and thinks a college education is a stepping-stone. He came to the University of Miami because it is conveniently situated near water, where he lives in a forty-foot auxiliary katch. He says that he lives alone and likes it. At the present time he is torn between painting his ship and struggling through Miss Barrtt's psychology 200-B, but thinks that he'll finish painting his boat in time to sail to Havana during the Xmas holidays. The name of his boat is "Sans Changer," the family motto.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 10, 1930420 | Chicago, Cook, Illinois |
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| April 13, 19509540 | Flagler County, Florida |
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