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VICTOR A. ALBRO is a son of James R. and Sophronia (Taylor) Albro and was born October 10, 1846, in Westfield, Chautauqua county, New York. His grandfather, John Albro, was a resident for many years of Cattaraugus county, this State, but emigrated to Wayne county, Illinois, where he died. He was a hotel-keeper and served as a soldier in the war of 1812, participating in the battle of Fort Erie, August 15, 1814. In religion he was a methodist. John Albro was married to Martha Morrison, by whom he had six children, four sons and two daughters. The maternal grandfather of V. A. Albro was Thomas Taylor. James R. Albro (father) was born in June, 1812, and in 1838 came from Gowanda, Cattaraugus county this State, to Westfield, remained there a short time, returned to Cattaraugus county, and after a while came back to this county, locating at Fredonia, going thence to Sherman. He was by occupation a cloth dresser and carder and also a fine penman, having taught writing schools. In politics he was a republican, and in religion was, with his wife, a member of the Methodist church. James R. Albro married Sophronia Taylor and had four children, three of whom are living, two daughters and a son, Victor A.

Victor A. Albro was educated in the common schools, learned the trade of a cabinet-maker and worked at it until 1862, when he enlisted in Company E. 112th Regiment New York Volunteers, and served until the close of the war, participating in the siege of Suffolk and nearly all the battles in which his regiment appeared, but was never seriously wounded. After he was mustered out of service, he worked at his trade of cabinet-maker until 1867, when he went into the office of the county clerk, Charles L. Norton, as clerk, served through Norton’s term and also through that of his successor, Richard Willing, and as special deputy clerk under Willing’s successor, John R. Robertson, and his successor, Herman Sixbey, and again under Sixbey’s successor, J. J. Aldrich, for two terms or six years. He served under T. D. Baldwin in the same office as deputy clerk and occupied the same position under A. H. Stafford, continuing under the present administration of E. P. Putnam. In politics he is a republican, and besides his official position in the county clerk’s office, he has served Mayville as town clerk for six consecutive terms. He belongs to Peacock Lodge, No. 696, F. and A. M.; to E. T. Carpenter Post, No. 308, G. A. R.; and to Mayville Council, No. 111, Royal Arcanum, all of Mayville.

Victor A. Albro was married in 1866 to Maria Benson, a daughter of Thomas Benson, and by her had one child, a son, Frank E., married to Ruby Lonnen, and is in the hardware business in Mayville. The mother died January, 1868, and Victor A. Albro married for his second wife, Cordelia L. Kelsey, of Chautauqua.