JACOB W. ALBRIGHT

ALBRIGHT, WILSON

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

ALBRIGHT, JACOB W., insurance agent; was born in Lancaster, Penn. Aug. 31, 1811; he was brought up in Pennsylvania, and served an apprenticeship as a printer in Harrisburg; he came to St. Louis in 1833, when that city contained only 8,000 people, and started the Evening Herald, the first newspaper published west of the Mississippi River; in 1837, he removed to Illinois, and was engaged on public works for a few years, then went to Philadelphia, and married Miss Rachel J. Wilson, a native of that city, July 5, 1840; they came to Iowa and located in Fort Madison in the spring of 1841; he engaged in the mercantile trade with his brother, W. G. Albright; continued in business twenty-eight years; since 1869, has been engaged in the insurance business. He has held the office of City Treasurer for three years; also City Alderman. They have three children - Katie, Jacob W., Jr., (in the Fort Madison Bank,) Daniel k. (in R. R. office in St. Louis); have lost four children.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879