What did horatio alger have to do?

He had to leave the ministry because he was accused of folding several young men, Alger himself admitted to doing this. He left theministry moved to New York in 1866 and wrote his most famous book Ragged Dick. He wrote nearly one hundred books mostly on the same theme-socialmobility through good character and he sold over 200,000,000 million most after his death in 1899.(Stephen King like numbers)