Bound to Rise

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Horatio Alger Jr. an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death was born at Revere Mass. January 18 1884. He was the son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852 and at its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster Mass. in 1862-66. In the latter year he settled in New York and began drawing public attention to the condition and needs of street boys. He mingled with them gained their confidence showed a personal concern in their affairs and stimulated them to honest and useful living. With his first story he won the hearts of all red-blooded boys every-where and of the seventy or more that followed over a million copies were sold during the author's lifetime.