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Horatio Alger Jr.

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Profession
Children's Author
Died
Jul 18, 1899
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
Chelsea MA
About
Author of children's literature whose rags-to-riches novels include the popular 1868 work, Ragged Dick. His novels for adults include Marie Bertrand and Timothy Crump's Ward, and he also published several poems.
Family
He was born in Massachusetts to a Unitarian minister father. During the early 1880s, he unofficially adopted two street boys, Charlie Davis and John Downie.

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