Deseret News prints Samuel Alger's obituary.

Date
Oct 14, 1874
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Deseret News
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Samuel Alger Sr., Obituary, in The Deseret News 7, no. 268 (October 14, 1874): 7

Scribe/Publisher
Deseret News
People
Samuel Alger, Deseret News
Audience
Reading Public
PDF
Transcription

Father Alger was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 14th of February, 1786; embraced the Gospel in Mayfield, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in November, 1830. . . .

. . . .in September, 1836, started for Missouri, stopping in Wayne County, Indiana, in consequence of bad roads; started again the following September and reached Randolph County, Missouri, where he resided a little more than a year, until the Saints were driven from that State. . . .

Father Alger throughout his life was a useful man and for the last forty-four years a faithful Latter-day Saint.

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