Ancestry of
Horatio Alger

Author

Horatio Alger Jr.

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Horatio Alger 
  • Mother:
  • Olive Augusta Fenno   
  • Birth Date:
  • 13 Jan 1832 
  • Birth Location:
  • Chelsea (now Revere), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Jul 1899 
  • Death Location:
  • Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Glenwood Cemetery, Natick, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • American Author

    Pen names: Carl Cantab, Arthur Hamilton, Caroline F. Preston, Arthur Lee Putnam, and Julian Starr.

    Notable work: Ragged Dick (1868)

• Sources for Horatio Alger Jr.

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/22/2024).
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, FHL No. 4325868, Image 24, Birth record for Horation Alger, gives birthdate as 15 JAN 1832.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 2016, Vol. 64, pp. 75-78.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 195.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 34.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Horatio Alger, Jr.", _Jr., (accessed 12/30/2014).