Alger, Russell A
general, governor of Michigan, secretary of war, was born Feb. 27, 1836, in Lafayette, Ohio.
He was admitted to practice law in 1859.
During the rebellion he entered the union army as a private, and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general for gallant conduct. In 1884 he was elected governor of Michigan; in 1888 was a candidate for president in the republican national convention; and in 1889 was elected commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. President McKinley appointed him secretary of war in 1897. He is one of the wealthiest men in Michigan, in which state he owns very large lumber interests.
ALGER, WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 30, 1822, in Freetown, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman and lecturer of Boston, and the author of Symbolic History of the Cross; The School of Life; History of the Doctrine of a Future Life; The Solitudes of Nature and Man; The Friendships of Women; Poetry of the Orient; and Life of Edwin Forrest.