Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....ALBRIGHT, Jacob  
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Author: History of Bedford & Somerset Counties, Pa.

Jacob Albright, of Meyersdale, is the son of Frank Albright, who was born in 
1816 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and was a shoemaker by trade. His wife 
was Lydia Deal, and they were the parents of the following children: Hattie, 
Catherine, Mealie, all of whom are deceased; Peter; Jacob, mentioned heinafter; 
Eliza; Fannie; and Leopold. The death of Mr. Albright, the father, occured in 
1897 at the good old age of eight-one. 

Jacob Albright, son of Frank and Lydia (Deal) Albright, was born January 27, 
1848, in Somerset County, where he was educated in the common schools. At the 
age of seventeen he enlisted in Company D, Fifty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, for three years or during the war, receiving his discharge April 8, 
1865, the day before the surrender at Appomattox. 

Mr. Albright married, in 1872, Dorothea, daughter of Jacob and Annie Weymer and 
the following children have been born to them: Jacob F; Henry E; Hattie, 
deceased; Charles, also deceased; John; Minnie; Dorothea; and Ettie. 


History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania with Genealogical and 
Personal Histories; Bedford County by E. Howard Blackburn; Somerset County by 
William H Welfley; Under the Editorial Supervision of the Honorable William H 
Koontz; The Lewis Publishing Company, New York :: Chicago 1906. Pg. 479 

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