| editor, The Biographical Dictionary of America… (1906)
“ ALDRICH, William Farrington, representative, was born in Palmyra, N.Y., March 11, 1853; son of William and Louisa (Klapp) Aldrich; grandson of Nathan Aldrich, and a descendant of Bishop Aldrich of Oxford, England. He was educated at the public schools of Palmyra, removed with his father to New York city in 1865, and was graduated in civil engineering at Warren's military academy, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1873. In 1874 he removed to Alabama, where he engaged in mining and established the mining town of Aldrich in Shelby county, Ala. ”
