Tyler County, West Virginia    Biography of Albin H. SMITH

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 36

ALBIN H. SMITH is a native of Tyler County, where during
his young manhood he taught school, later graduated in
pharmacy, for a number of years has been in the drug business
and is now proprietor of the leading drug store of Middle-
bourne.

He was born at Wick in Tyler County July 23, 1889. His
grandfather, Henry Smith, was born in Pennsylvania in 1814,
and was an early day farmer in the Frew community of Tyler
County where he lived until his death in 1896. Finton A.
Smith, better known to his friends as "Bose," is a resident of
Frew, where he was born March 9, 1854, and his home all his
life has been at Frew and Wick. He is a skillful house painter
by trade, and has performed that essential service for many
years, including much work in Middlebourne and vicinity.
He is a republican in politics. Finton A. Smith married Miss
Maggie Robinson, who was born at Wick April 20, 1863.
They became the parents of five children: Olive, wife of
J. Kenneth McCoy, a druggist at Fairview in Marion County;
Albin H.; Gertrude, who died at the age of nine years; Miss
Floy, a graduate nurse in charge of a ward in the Ohio Valley
Hospital at Wheeling; and Frank H., an apprentice druggist
under his brother.

Albin H. Smith was educated in the rural schools to the age
of seventeen. He taught one year at Blue and for three years
in his home district at Frew. In 1912 he graduated with the
degree Ph. G. from the Valparaiso University School of Phar-
macy. He then returned to West Virginia and clerked in a
drug store at Fairview in Marion County until stricken with
typhoid fever three weeks later. After recovering he was
for three years a drug clerk in the Opera Drug store at Sisters-
ville, then for three months in George Phillips' store at St.
Marys in Pleasants County, and after that did relief work in
Fayette and McDowell counties until 1915. In that year Mr.
Smith removed to Middlebourne, and for four years was
associated as an employe with the drug store of Charles D.
Eastman. He then bought a half interest in the store and in
December, 1920, became full proprietor and is now at the
head of a prosperous business.

Mr. Smith is a republican, a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with Middlebourne Lodge
No. 34, P. and A. M. In June, 1915, at New Martinsville, he
married Miss Nina White, daughter of Hamilton and Florinda
(Hall) White. Her parents now live at Sistersville and her
father is a veteran Union soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have
three children: Harold Eugene, born March 4, 1916; Charles
A., born in 1917; and Maurice F., born August 24, 1919.