Biography from Rick B Monday, April 10, 2006 HISTORY OF INDIANA FROM ITS EXPLORATION TO 1922 BY LOGAN ESAREY, Ph. D., ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION EDITED BY JOHN B. STOLL (Volume III). "BIOGRAPHICAL", published in Dayton, Ohio by Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923, page 188. Foster A. Albright. The recent return of the bicycle to public favor as a means of conveyance and recreation has caused the dealers in these articles to enjoy an increase in business and a proportionate advancement in business prestige. Prominent among the firms dealing in bicycles and automobile accessories at South Bend is that of Albright & Son, the founder and senior member of which is Foster A. Albright. Mr. Albright was born in Howard county, Indiana, October 14, 1876, and is a son of W. Albright, who was a presiding elder in the Methodist church. His uncle, Perry Albright, was for some years chaplain at the Indiana State Prison. Mr. Albright enjoyed the advantages of attendance at the public schools of Kokomo, where he was graduated from the high school as a member of the class of 1895, following which he pursued a business course at Hawkins Night School. With this preparation he entered the service of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, by which concern he! was employed for eleven years, and then entered the shoe business at Kokomo, with Neil Thomas, who is still carrying on the same line of business there. In 1907 Mr. Albright disposed of his holdings at Kokomo and came to South Bend, where he became associated with with the Singer Manufacturing Company. He remained with this firm until 1913, in which year he entered the bicycle and automobile accessories business at 120 West Sample Street, where he has since been located, and where he has built up a large and growing patronage among bicyclists and automobilists. He continued under the name Foster A. Albright until 1919, in which year he admitted his son John Paul, to membership, since which time the firm has been Albright & Son. They carry a full line of standard bicycles and bicycle goods, as well as high-class accessories for the motorist, and their business is well established and popular with a goodly following. Mr. Albright is a Methodist in religious belief. He ! has a number of social and civic connections and is a citizen who supp orts progressive and constructive movements. In 1897 Mr. Albright married Miss Gertrude K. Fleming, of Mucie, Indiana, and they have two children: Marjorie, a graduate of the Muncie High School, now the wife of Dick Ullery, of South Bend, with one child,--Richard, Jr.; and John Paul, a graduate of Muncie High School, and associated with his father in business, who married Miss Gertrude Snyder, of South Bend.