Mrs.Caroline Annette Alger Shelden

(1865-1935)

Mrs. Caroline Annette Alger Shelden was a Detroit society leader. The
daughter of General Russell A. Alger, former Governor of Michigan and
Secretary of War in President McKinley's cabinet, she was born in Grand
Rapids, but lived in Detroit most of her life.  She was educated at private
schools in Detroit, Mich., Farmington, Mich., Paris, France, and Lucerne,
Switzerland.  Caroline and Henry Dusenbury Sheldon married in 1887, and
they had three children.  Their home in Grosse Pointe Shores, "Deeplands",
became known as a fashionable showplace.  Caroline had a great number of
social affiliations, including Colonial Dames of America in Michigan,
Daughters of the American Revolution, Needlework Guild, Society of Arts
and Crafts, Detroit Colony Club, Women's City Club (Detroit, Mich.),
Detroit Museum of Arts Founders Society, and Garden Club of Michigan.
She died while on vacation in the Upper Peninsula, at Huron Mountain, in
August 1935.
(This biography was transcribed from the dplbibdiv.pbworks.com website
which belongs to the Detroit Public Library.)