Guilford-Buncombe County NcArchives Obituaries.....Albright, James W. 1917
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Charlotte Observer
19 Dec 1917

Was First to Call Greensboro a City - Funeral of James W. Albright - Author of 
Only Published History of Guilford Metropolis.

Greensboro, Dec. 18 - The burial of James W. Albright, who died in Asheville 
Saturday night, took place in Greene Hill Cemetery Sunday afternoon. A short 
service was conducted at the grave by Rev. E.L. Bain, pastor of West Market 
Street Methodist church, of which the deceased was for a long time a member.

Mr. Albright was born in Greensboro about eighty years ago, and was until his 
removal to Asheville, about 1900, one of the best known men of the town. He 
was the son of "Landlord" Albright, who conducted Greensboro's only hotel for 
a long time. The son became a printer and served on the mechanical and 
editorial ends of different publications in Greensboro for the greater part of 
his life. 

He entered the Confederate service and was three years in the army. At the 
close of the war he was at home on furlough, and thereafter was proud of the 
fact that he never surrendered.

He was the author of the only history of Greensboro that has been published. 
He was serving on the city board of control when he suggested that Greensboro 
he incorporated as a city instead of a town. His associates laughed at him, 
but he declared that he expected to live to see the term generally applied to 
Greensboro.


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