Roland F. Alger (1833-1906) was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1850s, and by 1860 he was working as a teacher back home in West Bridgewater. He married Catherine L. Alger (b. Dunbar) in Middleborough, Massachusetts, in 1861, and he was teaching grade school in Boston by 1870. Catherine passed away in 1875, and in 1879 Alger started working as a Baptist minister in Becket, Massachusetts. He married Blanche P. Alger (b. Perkins) in Becket in 1887. Alger wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1887 to request a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. At the time of his death, he was a Baptist minister in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston. Alger was a member of the Sons of Temperance.

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