Education
Harvard College; Harvard Law School. Harvard University.
Harvard College; Harvard Law School. Harvard University.
Alger was born to Edwin Alden and Amanda Malvina Buswell. From October 1875 to January 1877 Alger studied law at Harvard Law School and he was admitted to the bar for the County of Middlesex on June 4, 1877. Alger was active in the Democratic party.
He died on May 4, 1895 in North Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From 1878 to 1891 Alger was a member of the Cambridge Democratic Committee, from 1884 to 1891 he was a member of Massachusetts" Democratic party state committee, and he represented Massachusetts" eight Congressional District at the 1888 Democratic National Convention.