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Joseph Albertson, a dealer in general merchandise at Linwood (Stony Point), was born in Davidson County, N. C., June 20, 1829, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Nugent) Albertson, both natives of North Carolina, who immigrated to Morgan County, Ind., about 1833, where they passed the remainder of their lives. John Albertson was a farmer, and in connection with that occupation he conducted a grist and saw-mill. Of his twelve children only four are now living, our subject being the only resident of Osage County. Joseph Albertson was about three years of age when his parents immigrated to Indiana, where he was reared on a farm, and remained at home until nineteen years of age. The following four years he spent traveling in the South. He met and, on May 23, 1853, married Nancy Jane Renfroe, who was born in Gasconade County, Mo., in 1837, and was a daughter of Wade Renfroe. Mr. and Mrs. Albertson are the parents of six children, viz.: Peter, Sherman, Grant, John C., Dola and Adam. After marriage Mr. Albertson located near Mount Sterling, Gasconade County, and engaged in farming until 1866. When he entered the mercantile business at Cooper Hill, Osage County, still living on the farm until 1867. In the spring of the latter year he moved to Stony Point, Linwood Post-office, where he has ever since been successfully engaged in merchandising. In 1872 he established a branch store at Mint Hill, and in 1882 bought a grist and saw-mill and carding machine at Bland, Gasconade County, also establishing a branch store at that point. In 1886 he opened another store at Flora, in partnership with J. B. Griffith, and a few months later still another at Cross Roads, thirteen miles east of Linn. Mr. Albertson is the owner of all these stores, but personally devotes his attention to his store at Linwood. He has served as postmaster of Linwood since the establishment of the post office at that point, in 1867, and is one of the most enterprising business men in the county. He owns 480 acres of land in Osage County, 600 acres in Gasconade County, and 400 acres in Maries County, and devotes considerable time and attention to farming. He tills his stores with a good stock of general merchandise, and enjoys a large patronage. He served in the State Militia, and also in the Home Guards, during the war, and in politics votes the Republican ticket. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Albertson is a member of the Presbyterian Church.