Person:Lyman Alger (6)

BIOGRAPHY: "History Of Clinton County, Iowa" pages 808-809. "OLIVE TOWNSHIP. "LYMAN ALGER, farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Calamus; owns 700 acres of land in this county, besides several hundred acres in the western part of the State; son of Serrel and Polly Alger; born Sept. 12, 1800, in Madison Co., N.Y. In 1807, his parents moved to Erie Co. (NY). In 1821, he went into Pennsylvania, returned, and married Dorcas Hawkins in 1822, and moved into Cattaraugus Co. in 1824. In 1835, emigrated to La Salle Co., Ill., and put up the first house in what was known as Four-Mile Grove. In 1836, came to this county, made a claim and built a cabin, and, in the spring of 1838, moved his family there. On the 14th of August, 1839, his wife died and he married a brother's widow (maiden name, Martha Knight), in 1840; she was born in 1815 and died in 1841. On the 14th of August, 1841, he married Miss Esther Hawkins, sister to his first wife; she was murdered by unknown hands on the evening of the 25th of September, 1872. Had five children by first wife; those living are Mary J. Knight and Almira Berroud; deceased - Damon O., Serrell and Maria Curtis, and son by second wife, who was in the 2d Iowa Inf., and was killed at the battle of Spanish Fort. Member of the Free-Will Baptist Church; Republican."

CENSUS: 1880 census, Olive, Clinton, IA Lyman Alger, 79, farmer, Rheumatism, NY, RI, MA S. J. Curtis, 29, grandson, IA, NY, NY Eva Curtis, 15, granddaughter, IA, NY, NY Charlotte Alger, 80, sister-in-law, NY, MA, CT Sarah Bottemley, 20, teacher, boarder, MA, Eng, Eng Albert St. John 17, OH, OH, OH Wm. Cuykindall, 20, IA, NY, NY

BURIAL: Clinton County Geneological Society cemetery records for Alger Cemetery Page: page 1 Text: "ALGER Lyman, b. 12 Sept. 1800, d. 10 Nov. 1885 Dorcas, d. 14 Aug. 1838, age 40 y. wife of Lyman Esther, b. 9 July, 1800, d. 25 Sept. 1872, age 72 y. 2 m. 16 . w. of Lyman Martha, d. 21 May, 1841, age 26 y. 3 m. 6 d. wife of Lyman"