Alger, Myron Holley 1844-1912

ALGER, ROBINSON

Posted By: Bart Hamlett (email)
Date: 2/29/2016 at 20:53:06

Myron Holley Alger was born in Honeoye, N.Y. Feb. 9, 1844, and died near Edgewood, Iowa, May 11, 1912, at the age of 68 years, 3 months and 2 days.
His parents removed to Iowa and located near what was then called Yankee Settlement, now known as Edgewood, when he was a child of two years.

This early location remained his home through all the years of his life.

On the 23rd day of September, 1866, he was united in holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Cynthia Jane Robinson, of Edgewood, who journeyed helpfully and happily with him for more than 46 years, and who survives to mourn his departure.

To this union were born seven children, four sons and three daughters, as follows, Mr. H.B. of Lake View, Oregon; Miss Lou E. of Edgewood; Mr. S.W. of Chicago, Illinois; Mr. Anson, of Crosby, Minnesota; Mr. Myron J. of Edgewood, Miss Edna C. of Soochow, China, and Miss Ethel D. of Edgewood. Besides these his aged mother and two sisters survive him.

Mr. Alger was of an unassuming and retiring disposition, an admirer of plain, sturdy manhood and womanhood and a non-respecter of sham, shallow, sensational and unstable character.
The work of the Iowa Chilren's Home Society, The Deaconess Training School, in Chicago, and the fight against the White Slave Traffic, appealed strongly to him and he provided in his will a contribution to each of these causes.

The community loses a good citizen, his home a kind and wise husband, father and counselor, his neighbors an accommodating comrade, an honest business man and a reliable friend.

In his earlier manhood he had heard the call of God to his spirit and acknowledged the same before his fellows in a public manifestation, but did not follow it up clearly and regularly for some unknown reasons until recently. As his end approached he seemed counscious of it and stated at different time his conviction that he would not recover. he took a journey to California in the interest of his health, but desired to return to his home to die.

He was unwilling to die without making his peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ and testifying his faith by receiving Christian baptism during the last days of his stay on earth.
The funeral services were held at the Congregational church Tuesday, Rev. Lockard, a former pastor of the Methodist church in this place but now stationed at Greene, preaching the sermon. He was assisted in the services by Rev. Turner and Rev. True, the latter a life-long friend of the deceased. The floral offerings were beautiful and the church was filled to the doors with sorrowing friends who had gathered there to pay their last respects to one whom they had known so well. The remains were tenderly laid to rest in the Edgewood cemetery there to rest until the judgment day. The sympathy of the entire neighborhood is extended the bereaved family in their sorrow.

(as printed in the Edgewood Journal, May 16, 1912)