Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-01-24
To Highest Places in Military
and Civil History of His
Country.
WON BRILLIANT RECORD
IN THE CIVIL war AND
Then Made Himself Millionaire in
Woods of Michigan. Which Al
ways Stood BY Him.

Washington, d. c., Jan. 24.--Uni-
ted States Senator Russell A. Alger,
of Michigan, died suddenly at his
home at s:45 this morning At $3.50
his wife, and then went down stairs.
A few minutes later his heart failed
and death came Immediately. The
senator had not been feeling we'll for
several days, but he was in the senate
chamber Tuesday afternoon. through
out the discussion of the Brownsville
affair. He had suffered from a
valvular disease of the heart for
years.
The immediate cause of the death
of Senator Alger is given by the
doctor as acute attack of oedema of
the lungs.
Gen. Russell A. Alger was born on
a farm in Lafayette, Medina county,
Ohio, February 81. 1886. He was
orphaned at IL and thrown upon his
own resources. Farm work occupied
his earlier years. He saved his mon
ey and attended the Richfield (O.)
academy during the winters. after
wards reading law in the office of
Wolcott and Upsord, in Akron. In
1859 he was practicing law in Cleve-
land with the then well-known firm
of Otis and Canterbun. His health
failing. he went into the pine woods
of Michigan. When the war broke
out, he enlisted as a private, took
part i'm sixty-six battles, served under
Custer, commanded the Fifth Michi-
gan regiment in the army of the Po-
tomac, was wounded in the battle of
Bonneville, and came out of the army
brigadier general.
After the war Alger returned to
Michigan and the lumber business
Fortune favored him. He built rail-
roads and invested in mines. Then
years ago he was already rated as
ten times a millionaire.
Alger's career as a politician began
I'm 1884, when he was elected govern
or of Michigan on the republican
ticket. He was a presidential aspir
ant in the convention which first
nominated Benjamin Harrisn. John
Sherman laid his defeat at Alger's
door. In 1895 Alger paid the
freight" and personally conducted the
tour of generals" which helped to
elect Mckinley. He was made sec
retary of war, but resigned after the
outcry against 'embalmed beef"
Michigan, however believed In Alger.
and upon Senator Jas. McMillan's
death, sent him to the senate.
Algers family consists of Mrs AL
ger; a daughter Carolina. wife of
Harry ID. Sheldon, Detroit: a daugh-
ter Fay, wife of VIM. f. Bailey. Har-
risburg, Pa; a daughter Frances,
Russell A. Alger, Jr., Detroit; a son,
Frederick Moulton Alger, Detroit.
For many years Gen. Alger gave
every Detroit newsboy annually
suit of clothes. Later he gave the
boys bankbooks, each containing a
savings nestegg, and offered prizes
during the year.
Whats the matter with Alger?
He's all rightil swept Michigan and
was carried to the national conven-
tion during his candidacy for the
presidential nomination. The Mich
igan delegates were not long allowed
to have a monopoly of the catchy
cry, supporters of other favorite sons
taking it up and applying it to their
own candidates, until II bscame part
of the vernacular.
Alger made his enemies glad in
1901. He wrote a book. THE Span
ish- American War" I'm which he
sought to justify his own career and
discredit that of Gen. Miles, Admiral
Sampson and some. They and their
friends retaliated in kind, and for a
time the press was kept busy print
ing charges and counter-charges
Integrity, industry and economy"
were Gen. Alger's watchwords. "Save
part of your income, no matter
how small.n was his constant motto