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Cynthia Westover Alden
circa 1908Born Cynthia May Westover
May 31, 1862
Afton, IowaDied January 8, 1931 (aged 68)
Brooklyn, New York (home)Residence New York City from 1882 Other names Kate Kensington (pen name) Education Denver public schools, Boulder Normal School, Denver Business College, Academy of Music (New York) Occupation Teacher
Civil servant
Journalist
Author
editor
PhilanthropistKnown for Journalism and the humanitarian work of the International Sunshine Society she founded. Spouse John B. Alden (m. 1896) Parents Oliver S. Westover
Lucinda (Lewis) WestoverRelatives Alexander Campbell (great-grandfather)[1] Awards Gold medal (Parisian Academy of Inventors - c.1891)
Honorary M. Literature (Alfred University - 1905)Cynthia May Westover Alden (May 31, 1862 – January 8, 1931), commonly known as Cynthia W. Alden, was an American journalist, author and New York municipal employee.
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Biography
She was born in Afton, Iowa. She was educated at the University of Colorado and the Denver Business College.
In 1887 she was appointed an inspector of customs, in which position she was involved in the seizure of smuggled goods. She lived and worked in New York City as a music teacher and as soloist in church choirs. She was secretary to the New York City Commissioner of Street Cleaning for two years. For a time she was also employed at the New York Museum of Natural History.
She entered journalism as editor of the woman's department, first, of the New York Recorder, and later of the New York Tribune. During her three years with the Tribune she planned and founded the International Sunshine Society, of which she became president-general.
Alden accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Ladies' Home Journal, but she continued to reside in New York City, where she died. Her published writings include: Manhattan, Historic: Artistic; Bushy: Child Life in the Far West; Women's Ways of Earning Money (1904).
Source
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
Notes
- ^ Willard 1893, p. 761.
References
- Willard, Frances E.; Livermore, Mary A., eds. (1893), "Miss Cynthia M. Westover", A Woman of the Century, New York: Charles Wells Moulton, pp. 761–762, http://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA761
Categories:- 1862 births
- 1931 deaths
- Editors of New York City newspapers
- New York Tribune personnel
- People from Union County, Iowa
- People from Manhattan
- University of Colorado alumni
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