Henry T. Albro Biography - Mecosta County, MI.

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1883 Mecosta County Portrait and Bio Album, Chapman Brothers

HENRY T. ALBRO, farmer, sec. 36, Big Rapids Tp., was born in Greenfield, Wayne 
Co., Mich., Jan. 5, 1841. The place of his birth is now within the limits of the city of 
Detroit. He is a son of Clark and Catherine (O'Neil) Albro, the former born July 5, 1819, 
at Cortland, N.Y., of French and English extraction. The mother was a native of County 
Tyrone, Ireland, born in 1821, and first came to the United States when very young. Her 
father was a sea captain and she was on the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly when she was six 
years old. She died April 26, 1883, at Detroit.

Mr. Albro was married May 9, 1867, to Cynthia R., daughter of William and Rosanna 
Butler of English and German descent on the paternal side, and on the mother's, of Scotch 
and French origin. Mrs. Albro was born in Detroit, Mich., Jan. 15, 1852.

Mr. Albro came to Mecosta County in September, 1867, and took up 33 acres of 
government land on sec. 36, on which he now resides, and has a good portion under fine 
cultivation.

jc