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Robert Alden
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.
Alden was a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the English sailing shipMayflower.