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	The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans
		Founded in 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans continues to fulfill its mission of honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in spite of adversity and of encouraging young people to pursue their dreams through higher education.
		The Association brings the "Horatio Alger Heroes" of today together with those of tomorrow by bestowing the Horatio Alger Award each year and by awarding more than $12 million annually in college scholarships to young people.
		Horatio Alger Scholars have faced challenges and realize that a college education is the avenue to a better future.
	www.horatioalger.com (197 words)

	Horatio Alger festival roiled by charges - Boston.com
		In the 1860s, Alger quietly resigned as a Unitarian minister at a church on Cape Cod after he was accused of assaulting two boys -- an incident that is old news to literary scholars but came as a surprise to some civic leaders in Marlborough.
		Alger, who grew up in Marlborough, is remembered for more than 100 novels about boys who go from rags to riches by working hard, often under the tutelage of wealthy men.
		Alger's father, himself a Unitarian minister, promised that his son would resign and never again work in the church.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/09/27/horatio_alger_festival_is_under_siege?mode=PF (828 words)

	Horatio Alger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the debut of his first novel, Ragged Dick, in 1867, Alger was instrumental in establishing a new genre of dime novels known as the 'city story.' The genre arose out of the wide-spread urbanization that followed the Civil War and paralleled the rise of industrialism.
		Alger's stories continued to be reprinted well after his death, as evidenced by this 1911 issue of Boy's Home Weekly.
		Alger's name appears twice on the cover, its prominence pointing to the author's continued popularity and the importance of a famous writer's reputation for increasing a publication's circulation.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/dp/pennies/1860_alger.html (163 words)

	Horatio Alger, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alger was born in Chelsea, now Revere, Massachusetts to a stern Unitarian minister who wanted his son to follow him into the religious world.
		Church records uncovered after Alger's death indicate that he was quietly dismissed for having sexual relations with several teenage boys in his parish (as a result, the New York City chapter of the North American Man/Boy Love Association is named after him).
		Since 1947, the Horatio Alger Association has bestowed an annual award on "outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity" and scholarships "to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horatio_Alger (1646 words)

	Horatio Alger
		Alger was known for his stories of boys who rose from poverty to great wealth such as Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom.
		Since 1947, The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has been dedicated to honoring the accomplishments and achievements of outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity, and to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance.
		The Horatio Alger Society's goal is to further the philosophy of Horatio Alger, Jr.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/a/alger_horatio.htm (555 words)

	Horatio Alger, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nevertheless, at the time of their writing they were bestsellers, and Alger's books actually rivaled those of Mark Twain in popularity.
		Alger was born in Revere, Massachusetts to a stern Unitarian minister who wanted his son to follow him into the clergy.
		Church records uncovered after Alger's death indicate that he was quietly dismissed for having sexual relations with several boys in his parish.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Horatio_Alger,_Jr..html (747 words)

	Horatio Alger, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Poorly written and repetitive the novels declined popularity as Alger's target audience grew more Nevertheless at the time of their writing were bestsellers and Alger's books actually rivaled of Mark Twain in popularity.
		Alger was born in Revere Massachusetts to a stern Unitarian minister who wanted his son to him into the clergy.
		Since 1947 the Horatio Alger Association has an annual award on "outstanding individuals in society who have succeeded in the face adversity" and scholarships "to encourage young people pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance".
	www.freeglossary.com /Horatio_Alger,_Jr. (770 words)

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		Alger's message--that by dint of hard work, decent morals, good manners and a hefty serving of luck, any American boy can rise from rags to riches--is so clearly anathema to the literati that his dismissal by the critics and the continuing refusal to treat his work as anything other than simple-minded boosterism was virtually foreordained.
		Alger is certainly not the originator of these belief, but his millions of books must have contributed something to this entrepreneurial spirit that informs the national soul.
		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 13, 1834.
	www.abacci.com /books/authorDetails.asp?authorID=189 (1801 words)

	Horatio Alger Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies.
		Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister.
		The typical Alger hero was a boy who, born poor, overcame odds by living virtuously and working hard and rose to fame and fortune.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/horatio-alger (500 words)

	Information about U.S. FDC: 20¢ Horatio Alger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Horatio Alger was born to a family that had little in the way of material wealth.
		Alger's deep concern with the plight of these underprivileged youngsters compelled him to take up his pen and write the famous Horatio Alger stories.
		Horatio Alger was not a literary giant in the usual sense of the term; however, his influence on a generation of readers is legendary.
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	The Novels of Horatio Alger, Jr.: Biography
		Alger is an author who wrote what he knew, and thus the clearest picture of Alger and his motivations, it follows, can be drawn from these texts.
		Regardless of his attempts, the Alger family was never comfortable, and the father was eventually forced to resign and leave town in 1844, while his remaining property was assigned to a creditor, believed to be the source of the miser figure in the younger Horatio's later works.
		On July 18, 1899, Alger died at his sister's home of heart disease, leaving instructions to his sister to make the funeral as private as possible, with as few personal details as necessary; his true age was not reported at the event, and his remains were cremated before burial.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/cinder/bio.htm (2615 words)

	Horatio Alger - Biography and Works
		In 1848, sixteen year-old Horatio was accepted to Harvard University with financial assistance from his father’s cousin Cyrus Alger, and embarked on the happiest four years of his life.
		Alger was initially not as successful when, upon graduating, he submitted stories to various magazines and newspapers only to have them rejected.
		In 1874, Alger began to spend less and less time in New York as his asthmatic lungs gave him trouble with all the soot and smoke from the busy city, so he sought respite in his native New England and further travels across America.
	www.online-literature.com /horatio-alger (1078 words)

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		Alger works to bring the reader into the street with the boys so that the reader can feel the emotion and stress that goes along with such a lifestyle.
		The author illustrates how Horatio served as an active and important character in the play, although he may well be treated only as a secondary character in the play.
		Horatio Alger's character, Ragged Dick, embodies many traits and beliefs that were present at that time.
	www.quicktermpapers.com /lib/essay?A=netessays&KEYW=Horatio+Alger (1969 words)

	Violet Books: Horatio Alger, Jr.
		Alger was a pedarast, period, & for better or worse, acknowledging it can deepen an understanding of his books & of a world he misrepresented as full of grand opportunities for hard-working child laborers.
		While Alger was being officially removed from any further church authority, & before the news of his dangerous indecency became generally known around Cape Cod, Alger packed a couple bags & fled town, never to return.
		To acknowledge this aspect of Alger & his work is discomfiting to all who have enjoyed, & would like to continue to enjoy, his tales of hard luck lads overcoming all trials to become savvy young businessmen.
	www.violetbooks.com /alger.html (1192 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Horatio Alger
		Gonzales' story is almost a clich of the American Dream, his being a Horatio Alger emergence from the poverty of a migrant worker's son's upbringing to the office of attorney general.
		According to the Horatio Alger Association's report, the percentage of Internet-using teens that downloaded music for free dropped from 44 percent to 40 percent between 2004 and 2005, while the percentage that paid to download rose from 17 percent to 24 percent in the same time period.
		Typically it is a Horatio Alger tale of hard work and disappointment, tenacity and picking oneself up off the floor, eventual triumphs tempered by the fear of success, then glory and doubt and, finally, the humble new her at peace with the world.
	news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Horatio_Alger_Book.html (4401 words)

	Horatio - AskTheBrain.com
		In the Horatio Hornblower stories, the bomb vessel represented a specialization of the warship into a floating siege engine carrying huge shell-firing mortars for the purpose of bombarding stationary targets.
		Horatio Hornblower I covers the time period of the first four movies; Horatio Hornblower II covers the time period shown in The Mutiny and Retribution.
		Zito’s story is really a Horatio Alger one in that he was born to a poor family in Sicily, came to this country and grew to be rich and famous.
	www.askthebrain.com /horatio-.html (398 words)

	Horatio Alger
		Horatio's parents were Olive Augusta Fenno and Horatio Alger, Sr., a Unitarian minister.
		Horatio did most of the research and writing while William penned the chapters dealing with the history of the American theater.
		The greatest period of Alger's popularity occurred after his death when, during the early decades of the twentieth century, his books were issued in cheap editions.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/horatioalgerjr.html (1395 words)

	Horatio Alger Resources
		Some of the poetry of Horatio Alger, Jr.
		Founders Library at NIU has acquired a comprehensive collection of more than 2,000 books and periodicals by and about Horatio Alger, and the library now is the official repository for the archives and other papers of the Horatio Alger Society.
		A complete catalog of Alger's works will be prepared, and the library will continue to acquire all Alger-related monographs and dissertations, in addition to mounting periodic exhibits of the collections and hosting future conventions of the Society.
	www.washburn.edu /sobu/broach/algerres.html (397 words)

	The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans \| Publications
		The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans
		For more than a half-century, the Horatio Alger Association has paid tribute to the simple but commanding values and beliefs of dedication, purpose, and perseverance by recognizing the lives of Americans who not only exemplify this heritage but are committed to sharing a message of hope and encouragement with young people.
		The Horatio Alger Association · 99 Canal Center Plaza · Alexandria, Virginia 22314
	www.horatioalger.com /publications.cfm (125 words)

	Subject: horatio-alger FAQ
		This is the official FAQ for the Horatio Alger, Jr.
		Early in 1866, Horatio Alger, Jr.'s contract was up for renewal.
		Raoul Duke, Thompson's alter ego, refers to himself as a "monster reincarnation" of Horatio Alger.
	www.washburn.edu /sobu/broach/algerFAQ.html (2288 words)

	Horatio Alger: The Moral of the Story by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal Autumn 2000
		Alger advised them to improve themselves, to get a job with a future instead of hanging about the streets, squandering whatever came their way from shining shoes or picking pockets.
		Alger would disabuse them by going face-to-face with the problems of the age, introducing two youths whose lives were modeled on real people he had met in his travels.
		Alger's is a creed for clerks." This is precisely the elite attitude that condemns youths to a lifetime in the ghetto by egging them on from the safe sidelines, as their turned-around baseball caps, boom-boxes, and in-your-face demeanor compel employers to look elsewhere for help.
	www.city-journal.org /html/10_4_urbanities-the_moral.html (3938 words)

	Horatio Alger Jr. -Tom Turners Legacy First is Format No 7 pg 27, Gold Letters only & full name Horatio Alger on spine. ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alger produced the one of the first boys' adventure series.
		Horatio Alger Junior wrote Tom Turners Legacy First is Format No 7 pg 27, Gold Letters only & full name Horatio Alger on spine.
		Horatio Alger wrote mostly juvenile fiction: short stories, serialized novels, and novels.
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	Horatio Alger Festival Roiled by Charges, Horatio Alger Street Fair in Mass. Is Roiled by Charges That ...
		In the 1860s, Alger quietly resigned as a Unitarian minister at a church on Cape Cod after he was accused of assaulting two boys _ an incident that is old news to literary scholars but came as a surprise to some civic leaders in Marlborough.
		Alger, who grew up in Marlborough, is remembered for more than 100 novels about boys who go from rags to riches by working hard, often under the tutelage of wealthy men.
		Alger also is credited with helping to improve working conditions for youngsters.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/09/27/ap/national/printableD8KDC2B80.shtml (938 words)

	Horatio Alger - MSN Encarta
		Ordained a Unitarian minister in 1864, Alger became chaplain of a lodging house for newsboys in New York City in 1866.
		In Alger's first volume of fiction, Ragged Dick (1867), and in similar works, such as Luck and Pluck (1869) and Tattered Tom (1871), he portrayed underprivileged youths who win fame and wealth by practicing the virtues of honesty, diligence, and perseverance.
		Although they have little literary significance, his novels influenced American youth by emphasizing merit, rather than mere social status, as the chief determinant of success.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561873/Alger_Horatio.html (170 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Horatio Alger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Horatio Alger, Jr., was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Horatio Alger, an improvident Unitarian minister and farmer, and Olive Augusta Fenno, a distant relative of the poet Charles Fenno Hoffman.
		In this novel, Alger a bootfl gradually improves his station by acquiring a rudimentary education and genteel habits, a reformation signalled by his changing names (Ragged Dick to Dick Hunter to Richard Hunter, Esq.).
		To supplement his income from writing, Alger was employed as a tutor in the homes of several distinguished New York families.
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	Definition of Horatio Alger, Jr.
		Alger was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (now Revere, Massachusetts) to a stern Unitarian minister who wanted his son to follow him into the clergy.
		Church records uncovered after Alger's death indicate that he was quietly dismissed for having sexual relations with several boys in his parish (as a result, the New York City chapter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association is named after him).
		Horatio Alger Books On-Line 2 (http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2wandquery=Alger%2C+Horatioanddocs=TEI2andauth=andtitle=andbegin_year=andend_year=andsample=1-100andgrouping=work) 18 of Alger's works (with A Fancy of Hers, unique to this collection)
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Horatio_Alger%2C_Jr. (806 words)

	NewMexiKen » Horatio Alger, Jr….
		The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans provides this background.
		Alger trumpeted the doctrine of achieving success through self-reliance, self-discipline, decency, and honesty.
		Groucho Marx once said, “Horatio Alger’s books conveyed a powerful message to me and many of my young friends—that if you worked hard at your trade, the big chance would eventually come.
	www.newmexiken.com /archives/2004/01/000814.php (606 words)

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