Alpheus B. Alger

Alpheus Brown Alger
Alger c. 1892
Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office
January 1891 – January 1892
Preceded byHenry Gilmore
Succeeded byWilliam Bancroft
Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
Third Middlesex District
In office
1886–1887
Member of the
Board of Aldermen
of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office
1884–1884
Personal details
Born(1854-10-08)October 8, 1854
Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMay 4, 1895(1895-05-04) (aged 40)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
PartyDemocratic
EducationHarvard College, Harvard Law School
OccupationAttorney

Alpheus Brown Alger (October 8, 1854 – May 4, 1895) was a Massachusetts politician who served in the Massachusetts State Senate, as a member of the Board of Aldermen and as the Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Biography

Alger was born to Edwin Alden and Amanda Malvina Alger, née Buswell, in Lowell, Massachusetts. 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. After being admitted to the bar, he began practicing law with his father's firm, Brown & Alger in Boston while living in Cambridge.

Alger was active in the Democratic party. 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. He died on May 4, 1895, in North Cambridge, Massachusetts.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Reed, Warren A. (1888), Harvard College Class of 1875 Secretary's Report, No. V., Cambridge, Ma: Harvard College, p. 7
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Toomey, Daniel P. (1892), Massachusetts of Today: a Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Boston, MA: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 296
  3. ↑ Reed, Warren A. (1888), Harvard College Class of 1875 Secretary's Report, No. V., Cambridge, Ma: Harvard College, p. 8
  4. 1 2 Cambridge City Council (1890), The Revised Ordinances of 1889 of the city of Cambridge, Boston, MA: Cambridge City Council, p. 166
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Ex-Mayor Alger of Cambridge". Boston Evening Transcript. May 4, 1895. p. 8. Died This Morning. Once Aldermen of Cambridge, Senator for Two Terms and Twice Chosen Mayor of Cambridge
  6. 1 2 Reed, Warren A. (1891), Harvard College Class of 1875 Secretary's Report, No. VI. - 1875-1891, Harvard College, p. 9
  7. ↑ Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp. 10–11.