Horatio Alger – Axios Press

Horatio Alger

1832 – 1899

American

Novelist and Unitarian clergyman. His books about young men who prosper became a by-word for hope, optimism, hard work, persistence, and the importance of good moral character in earning and winning success.

Contemporaries

1801–1877	Brigham Young
1896–1986	Wallis Windsor
1895–1951	William Wilson
1856–1924	Woodrow Wilson
1856–1923	Kate Wiggin
1878–1958	John Watson
1856–1915	Booker T. Washington
1891–1974	Earl Warren
1877–1936	William Walling
1888–1953	Jim Thorpe
1894–1961	James Thurber
1899–1979	Allen Tate
1811–1896	Harriet Beecher Stowe
1818–1893	Lucy Stone
1852–1916	Charles Russell
1879–1935	Will Rogers
1885–1954	Ruth Rohde
1898–1976	Paul Robeson
1874–1960	John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1839–1937	John D. Rockefeller
1880–1973	Jeannette Rankin
1889–1979	A. Philip Randolph
1872–1960	Emily Post
1892–1964	Cole Porter
1839–1914	Charles Peirce
1898–1993	Norman Vincent Peale
1885–1945	George Patton
1871–1955	Maud Park
1846–1911	Carry Nation
1793–1880	Lucretia Mott
1837–1913	J. P. Morgan
1891–1980	Henry Miller
1781–1849	William Miller
1880–1956	H. L. Mencken
1855–1942	Clinton Merriam
1890–1944	Aimee McPherson
1895–1989	John McCloy
1885–1957	Louis Mayer
1895–1977	Groucho Marx
1893–1961	Harpo Marx
1891–1961	Chico Marx
1755–1835	John Marshall
1880–1959	George Marshall
1880–1964	Douglas MacArthur
1889–1974	Walter Lippmann
1887–1948	Aldo Leopold
1807–1870	Robert E. Lee
1894–1956	Alfred Kinsey
1859–1932	Florence Kelley
1880–1968	Helen Keller
1848–1908	Joel Harris
1805–1879	Angelina Grimke
1792–1873	Sarah Grimke
1869–1940	Emma Goldman
1839–1897	Henry George
1805–1879	William Garrison
1886–1953	Douglas Southall Freeman
1897–1962	William Faulkner
1837–1899	Dwight Moody
1817–1895	Frederick Douglass
1886–1961	Ty Cobb
1864–1943	George Washington Carver
1888–1955	Dale Carnegie
1860–1925	William Jennings Bryan
1800–1891	George Bancroft
1771–1852	Hosea Ballou
1876–1965	George Baker
1838–1918	Henry Adams