a lieutenant colonel with the American Expeditionary Force in France during the First World War, and was awarded the French Legion of Honor. Russell Jr. was instrumental in persuading the Packard Motor Car Company to move to Michigan from Ohio. He built a palatial Italian Renaissance style estate, "The Moorings," in Grosse Pointe. It was donated in 1949 and became the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Death He died in Washington, D.C., in 1907. He is interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan. Legacy In a memorial address, Senator John Spooner of Wisconsin said of Alger, "No man without noble purpose, well-justified ambitions, strong fiber, and splendid qualities in abundance could have carved out and left behind him such a career." An early movie entitled General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff documents an official visit to Camp Wikoff, New York as Secretary of War. The visit and film were produced to garner support from the New York newspapers. In May 1898, the War Department established Camp Russell A. Alger on a farm near Falls Church and Dunn Loring, Virginia. Faced with a typhoid fever epidemic, it was abandoned the month at the war's end in August 1898 and sold the following month. In its brief existence, 23,000 men trained there for service. It is commemorated by an official Virginia historical marker. Named for Alger Alger, Michigan (1882) Alger County, Michigan (1885) Russell A. Alger Street and Alger Street in Black River, Michigan Alger Street in Lincoln, Michigan Alger Heights, a neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Michigan A United States Liberty ship named the was planned but cancelled in 1942 before construction. Monuments In 1909, a monument to Alger was erected on the William G. Mather Building in Munising, Michigan. It consists of a bronze bust of Alger on a stone pedestal, and was sculpted by Detroit sculptor Carlo Romanelli with funds provided by the heirs of Alger and by the Board of Education of the Munising Township Schools. In 1921, a memorial fountain was dedicated to Alger in Grand Circus Park, Detroit by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon. Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography Bell, Rodney E. "A Life of Russell Alexander Alger." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1975' Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for Russell Alexander Alger. 59th Cong.,