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Robert Alden
Reverend Edwin Hyde Alden, known as ''Robert Alden'' (January 14, 1836 – May 6, 1911) 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 NBC television series of the same name.
==Life and work==
Reverend Alden was born in Windsor, Vermont. He was the founding pastor of First Congregational Church (Waseca, Minnesota) in 1868. This was the first organized church in Waseca, Minnesota. He was the minister of the Congregational Church in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, 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, such as the one in Walnut Grove, on the western frontier, which he founded in 1875, with Charles and Caroline Ingalls being among the first baptized members.
When the Ingalls family left Walnut Grove, they were convinced they would never see him again, but he unexpectedly appeared in Dakota Territory, which Laura Ingalls Wilder mentioned in ''"By the Shores of Silver Lake"''. Reverend Alden held the first church service in De Smet in February, 1880, in the surveyors' house in which the Ingalls were temporarily living. He also informed the family about the Iowa College for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa at this time, which Mary Ingalls eventually attended.
In the time between these two meetings with the Ingalls family, Reverend Alden went north and became a Native American agent in what would later become North Dakota. He committed several acts of petty fraud in this position, and the Native Americans he dealt with came to consider him a repetitive liar, and eventually threatened to kill him, as reported in the New York Times on August 15, 1878. Apparently, he returned to the ministry after this point. He was married twice and had two children. He died in Chester, Vermont, at the age of 75.
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