Editing Alger, Ohio (section)

==History==
Alger was established along the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad and the Ada & Round Head Turnpike, present SR-235.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kohler |first=Minnie Ichler |title=A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County Ohio |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |year=1910 |isbn=9789354415517 |edition=Vol.I |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages=182–183 |language=en}}</ref> After the draining of the Scioto marsh. Alger was first called Jagger, and under the latter name was laid out in 1882 by Elias Jagger, and named for him.<ref name="History 182">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury11kohl | title=A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Principal Interests | publisher=Lewis Publishing Company | last=Kohler | first=Minnie Ichler | year=1910 | page=[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury11kohl/page/182 182]}}</ref> The present name is for [[Russell A. Alger]], 20th Governor of Michigan.<ref name="History 182" /> The village was incorporated in 1896.<ref name="History 182" />