Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present, J. H. Beers, Chicago, 1916, Volume II, Page 731:
"Thomas Albright, son of Joseph, was educated in West Brunswick township and at the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, where he spent one year. He worked for his father on the farm until after his marriage. He operated his grandfather Kershner's farm at Drehersville for about eight years, and then moved to Orwigsburg and lived retired for one year. His next removal was to the homestead farm, which he had bought from his father, and he operated it for eleven years, at the end of that time removing to Allentown, where he is now employed by Dr. Albright. Mr. Albright is now (1915) seventy-seven years old. He married Catherine Kershner. daughter of Daniel and Judith (Fegley) Kershner, and they had five children: Thomas and Lewis died young; Calvin married Ella Shoener, of Tamaqua; Ida is Mrs. Bensinger; Cora married Harry Bensinger. Mrs. Albright died in March, 1895, and is buried at Orwigsburg. Mr. Albright is a member of St. John's Reformed Church, of Orwigsburg, Pa. He is a Democrat in politics."
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; genealogy--family history--biography; containing historical sketches of old families and of representative and prominent citizens, past and present, J. H. Beers, Chicago, 1916, Volume II, Page 731:
"Thomas Albright, son of Joseph, was educated in West Brunswick township and at the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, where he spent one year. He worked for his father on the farm until after his marriage. He operated his grandfather Kershner's farm at Drehersville for about eight years, and then moved to Orwigsburg and lived retired for one year. His next removal was to the homestead farm, which he had bought from his father, and he operated it for eleven years, at the end of that time removing to Allentown, where he is now employed by Dr. Albright. Mr. Albright is now (1915) seventy-seven years old. He married Catherine Kershner. daughter of Daniel and Judith (Fegley) Kershner, and they had five children: Thomas and Lewis died young; Calvin married Ella Shoener, of Tamaqua; Ida is Mrs. Bensinger; Cora married Harry Bensinger. Mrs. Albright died in March, 1895, and is buried at Orwigsburg. Mr. Albright is a member of St. John's Reformed Church, of Orwigsburg, Pa. He is a Democrat in politics."
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