WILLIAM R ALGER, LONG EXCELLENT LETTER TO JOSEPH KIDDER 1844, CAMBRIDGE MASS.

Description: CAMBRIDGE, MASS. TO PEMBROKE, NEW HAMPSHIRE 1844Stampless Mailed Cover. 10 cents postage paid.Four page lettersheet. F-VF firm, clean paper. WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER TO JOSEPH KIDDER. Alger composed certain sayings, a number of which are recognizable today.Unitarian Minister, Author, Poet, Abolitionist, Chaplain for the Mass. Houseof Representatives, etc. see below LONG LETTER, 3 1.2 pages written small and very readable.Interesting Content, on many topics. Have Scanned so it is viewable closeup as well as far away. *** SCANS 8-13 SHOW HALF PAGES OF THE FIRST 3 PAGES.PAGE 4 IS SCATTERED IN THREE CORNERS AROUND THEMAILING ADDRESS. THEY CAN BE READ IN SCANS 5, 6, 7**** ***SCAN 7 IS WHERE HE ENDS THE LETTER AND SIGNS OFF,'YOUR FRIEND W R ALGER"* William Rounseville AlgerAdd languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWilliam Rounseville AlgerAlger in 1876BornDecember 28, 1822 Freetown, Massachusetts, USDiedFebruary 7, 1905 (aged 82) Boston, Massachusetts, USOccupation(s)Minister and authorChildren7, incl. Philip Rounseville Alger Abby Langdon AlgerRelativesHoratio Alger (cousin)William Rounseville Alger (December 28, 1822 – February 7, 1905) was an American Unitarian minister, author, poet, hymnist, editor, and abolitionist. He also served as Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.Early life and educationWilliam Rounseville Alger was born in Freetown, Massachusetts, on December 28, 1822 to Nahum and Catherine Sampson Alger, née Rounseville.[1][2] He attended the academy at Pembroke, New Hampshire, working part-time at a cotton mill.[1][2] Alger graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847 and was ordained as a Unitarian minister in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he preached until 1855.[3]CareerAfter 1855, Alger went to the Bulfinch Street Church in Boston, and preached around the country including in New York, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Louisiana, and Rhode Island.[3] He became well known in Boston for filling Tremont Temple.[4]Alger was an active abolitionist and Free Mason, and a contributor to various periodicals including the Christian Examiner, which he co-edited in the 1860s.[3] In 1857, he gave the annual Boston Fourth of July celebration day speech, in which he addressed the issue of slavery.[5] His remarks were controversial and the city refused the usual publication of the speech. However, seven years later, the city government unanimously reversed their decision, publishing the speech and publicly thanking him for it.[1]Alger was also the first regular pastor of the first Episcopalian church in Biddeford, Maine, which was built in 1869,[6] as well as the All Souls Unitarian Church in Roxbury (also called the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church).[7] He also served in The Church of the Messiah, an important Unitarian church in New York.[8] He served as Chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[9] Harvey Jewell, the speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives was impressed by Alger's prayers and asked for his words to be taken down by the stenographer and published.[1]Death and legacyAlger died on February 7, 1905.Some of his notebooks are stored at the Harvard Divinity School library,[3] and the New York Public Library.[10] Many of his published works have gone through numerous editions,[1] and a number of his hymns have been published in various hymnals and songbooks.[11]FamilyWilliam Alger married Anne Langdon in 1847. They had seven children, including Philip Rounseville Alger, an American naval officer,[2] and translator Abby Langdon Alger.[12]Alger's cousin was the noted author Horatio Alger, who had also served as a Unitarian pastor for a short time.[7] Though he was less widely known than Horatio, Gary Scharnhorst called William the "more talented" cousin in his 1990 biography of William Alger.[13]Selected worksHistory of the cross of Christ (1851)The charities of Boston, or, Twenty years at the Warren-street Chapel (1856)The Genius and Posture of America: An Oration Delivered to the Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857 (originally given July 4, 1857, pub. 1864)The historic purchase of freedom (1859)Lessons for mankind, from the life and death of Humbolt (1859)A tribute to the memory and services of the Rev. Theodore Parker (1860)Good Samaritan in Boston; a tribute to Moses Grant (1862)Public morals: or, The true glory of a state (1862)The solitudes of nature and of man; or, The loneliness of human life (1867)Prayers offered in the Massachusetts House of Representatives during the session of 1868 (1868)The American poets : a review of the works of Thomas William Parsons (1869)The end of the world, and the day of judgment : two discourses preached to the Music-Hall Society (1870)The sword, the pen, and the pulpit ; with a tribute to the Christian genius and memory of Charles Dickens (1870)The Poetry of the Orient (1874) [first pub. under The Poetry of the East; 1856]Life of Edwin Forrest, the American tragedian (1877)A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1880)The school of life (1881)Further readingScharnhorst, Gary (1990). A Literary Biography of William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905), a Neglected Member of the Concord Circle. Lewiston: Mellen. Joseph Kidder, 1813-1902. part of a longer article.... In 1812, Mr. Kidder associated with WH Kimball, established the Manchester democrat which afterwards became the Democrat and American. The next year, in company with Mr. John M. Hill of Concord, he started a campaign paper called the Advocate of Democracy, which cease publication with the close of the election which called it forth. From 1845-47 he was editor of the Manchester Saturday Messenger and was a writer for several other papers. From 1881-84 he was editor of the Odd Fellows' Department of the NH Statesman, and late, up to his death, conducted a similar department for the Manchester Union. In 1845, in Company with his brother Col. John S. Kidder, and John M Chandler, late cashier of the Amoskeag National Bank, with who at various times and for longer or shorter periods was associated with John F. Duncklee, he opened a store for the sale of general merchandise at 36 Elm St, on the site now occupied by the Weston Block. Growing with the growth of the town this came to be known, as the family store and did a large and increasing business for barter, for cash for credit. The farmers brought their produce and a large territory had its wants supplied in a satisfactory manner. For twenty eight years this was a center of trade until the firm was disolved by mutual consent. During the time spent in mercantile pursuits Mr. Kidder gave much attention to local public affairs; took a deep interest in education, was for some years a member of the school board and superintendent of schools. Later he was president of the Baord of Trade, vice president of the Old Folks' and of the Historic Associations. He was a trustee of the State Industrial School, to which institution he devoted much time and where he delivered many addresses, a trustee also of the Agricultural College in Durham, where he received the degree of Doctor of Science, and while not an Alumnum of Dartmouth, that institution, in recognition of his public usefulness in many directions made him Master of Arts. Intrested in all that pertains to agriculature he became a member of the Grange and was chaplin of Amoskeag Grange, P. of H., from 1896 to his decease. He became widely known throughout the state as a lecturer, one lectuer in particular on the cave in Kentucky, having been many times repeated. In addition to these things Mr. Kidder was an active ernest worker of the Universalist denominaiton to which he belonged and in the church of which he was a Sunday School teacher. As a lay preacher he conducted services at many funerals and not infrequently occupied the pulpit in his pastor's absence. At the close of his mercantile career Mr. Kidder felt free to devote himself to what must be considered the great purpose of his life. He has told us how at four years of age he was impressed at the sight of the Masonic emblems at his father's funeral. In 1845 he joined the Hillsboro Odge, No. 2, Order of Odd Fellows. On his 75th anniversary had had taken

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