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LarryLaddUU: Today is the birthday of "rags to riches" writer Horatio Alger, Jr., but to Unitarians might be better known as one of the first cases of clergy misconduct.
pauljimerson: Birthday of Horatio Alger Jr. b Chelsea, MA (1832). Odest of 5 kids, & he was nearsighted and asthmatic. He was accepted to Harvard when he was 16, & he said, “No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the 4 years which have been spent within college walls.”
ViraArmstrong: Horatio Alger Jr. January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works.
dannifoley: 4 of 5 stars to Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger Jr.
