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Alger was born to Samuel Alger and Clarissa Hancock on September 30, 1817, in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, the fourth of eleven children.Samuel was a carpenter who had built a house for the father of future Church of Christ leader Heber C. Kimball.
Alger's relationship with Smith was attested to by several people, including Emma Smith, Warren Parish, Oliver Cowdery, and Heber C. Kimball. [19] Several Mormons including Benjamin F. Johnson , Heber C. Kimball and Andrew Jenson , and former Mormons Chauncey Webb and Ann Eliza Webb Young , regarded the relationship as a marriage. [ 20 ]
Cowdery suspected Smith had engaged in a relationship with Fanny Alger, who worked in the Smith household as a serving girl. [203] Smith did not deny having a relationship, but he insisted that he had never admitted to adultery. [204] "Presumably", historian Bushman argues, "because he had married Alger" as a plural wife. [205]
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Lived 1775–1856; Married: Joseph Smith Sr. in 1795 Mother of Alvin, Hyrum, Sophronia, Joseph Jr., Samuel, Ephraim, William, Catherine or Katharine, Don Carlos, and Lucy (see Joseph Smith-History 1:4 and “Family of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith: First Family of the Restoration,” December 2005 Ensign magazine)
By that time, Joseph was married to six other women: Emma Smith, Fanny Alger, Louisa Beaman, Lucinda Pendleton Morgan, Nancy Marinda Johnson Hyde, and Clarissa Reed Hancock. [10]: 96 Young was about seven months pregnant with Jacobs' child (Zebulon William Jacobs), as confirmed by DNA evidence, [18] when she married Smith. [19]
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Bruce Alger (1918–2015), American Congressman from Texas; Cyrus Alger (1781–1865), American metallurgist and arms manufacturer; Fanny Alger (1816–1889), the first plural wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. Francis Alger (1807–1863), American mineralogist; Frederick M. Alger Jr. (1907–1967), American politician and diplomat