The family traced their American heritage to the 18th century. His parents were married in the Unitarian Church, and Alan and his brother, Charles, would receive education in schools based in Unitarianism: the Horace Mann school in Manhattan, the Hackley School in Tarrytown and Harvard University. According to Alan's nephew, folk singer Pete Seeger, the Seeger family was "enormously Christian, in the Puritan, Calvinist New England tradition." In practice, though, Alan's immediate family lived within the precepts of the evolution of Calvinism into Unitarianism. Seeger was born on June 22, 1888, in New York City. Seeger is sometimes called the "American Rupert Brooke". A statue representing him is on the monument in the Place des États-Unis, Paris, honoring fallen Americans who volunteered for France during the war. He is best known for the poem " I Have a Rendezvous with Death", a favorite of President John F. Seeger was the brother of Elizabeth Seeger, a children's author and educator, and Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist he was also the uncle of folk musicians Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, and Mike Seeger. Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion.
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