Toggle page view between regular and printer-friendly www.nyslittree.org

Person Detail: Horatio Alger

General Information:
Full Name: Horatio Alger Jr.
Biography:
(1832–1899) Writer. In 1866, Alger moved into the Newboys' Lodging House on Fulton Street, Manhattan, New York, where he served as chaplain, benefactor, and spiritual guidance counselor to the young residents (OILG).
Life Events:
Year: 1832 Event: BIRTH (Unknown) County
Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Massachusetts in 1832. 
Year: 1866 Event: RESIDENCE New York County
Alger moved into the Newboys' Lodging House on Fulton Street, Manhattan, New York, where he served as chaplain, benefactor, and spiritual guidance counselor to the young residents (OILG).  
Year: 1867 Event: LITWORK New York County
Ragged Dick, or Street Life In New York with the Boot Blacks
 
Year: 1869 Event: LITWORK New York County
Luck and Pluck
Novel. 
Year: 1870 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Sink or Swim
Novel. 
Year: 1871 Event: LITWORK New York County
Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab
Novel. 
Year: 1871 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Strong and Steady
Novel. 
Year: 1872 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Strive and Succeed
Novel. 
Year: 1899 Event: DEATH (Unknown) County
Horatio Alger died in Natick, Massachusetts in 1899. 
Year: 1899 Event: INTERMENT (Unknown) County
Alger is interred in the Glenwood Cemetery, South Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. 

Albany Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Essex Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Greene Hamilton Herkimer Jefferson Lewis Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Nassau Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Orleans Oswego Otsego Otsego Putnam Rensselaer Rockland St. Lawrence Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Seneca Steuben Suffolk Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington Wayne Westchester Wyoming Yates See NYC Lit Map Bishop, Elizabeth Cornplanter, Jesse Melville, Herman Clemens (Mark Twain), Samuel Cooper, James Fenimore Gardner, John Barnes, Djuna Harte, Francis Brett Douglass, Frederick Whitman, Walt Paine, Thomas Nabokov, Vladimir Millay, Edna St. Vincent Ali, Agha Shahid View NYC Lit Map Go to home page View NYSCA website
CLOSE
Bronx County New York County (Manhattan) Queens County Kings County (Brooklyn) Richmond County (Staten Island) Poe, Edgar Allan Kubrick, Stanley Hart, Moss Moore, Marianne Craig Kang, Younghill Stein, Gertrude Corso, Gregory Da Ponte, Lorenzo de Burgos, Julia Singer, Isaac Bashevis Hansberry, Lorraine Parker, Dorothy McCarthy, Mary Schomburg, Arthur A. Baldwin, James Cather, Willa Sibert View NYS Lit Map Go to home page View NYSCA website
CLOSE
Please Wait...