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www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived
among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association
till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 18, 1884. He was the
son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at
its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church
at Brewster, Mass., in 1862-66. In the latter year he settled in New
York and began drawing public attention to the condition and needs of
street boys. He mingled with them, gained their confidence, showed a
personal concern in their affairs, and stimulated them to honest and
useful living. With his first story he won the hearts of all
red-blooded boys every-where, and of the seventy or more that
followed over a million copies were sold during the author's lifetime.
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