Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Richey, Albert M. February 10, 1810 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      Albert M Richey, now a resident of Iowa, was born in 
Fayette county, Penna, February 10, 1810.  His parents were 
Samuel and Elizabeth Humbert Richey, natives of Pennsylvania 
and of German and English ancestry.  His father was a 
soldier in the War of 1812.  
  
      Leaving his native county at the age of twenty one, 
Albert came to Greene county, after having learned cabinet 
making in Fayette county, Penna, and carried on business 
until 1878.  At that time he went West and engaged in the 
same business at Indianola, Iowa, where he still resides.  
  
      His family consists of seven children.  His oldest and 
only child in Greene County is Miss Emeline Richey of 
Carmicheals, Penna, where she is owner and proprietor of a 
large dry goods dress emporium.  Miss Richey is deserving of 
special mention, her life having been so much out of the 
range of most of her sex.  She was reared in Carmicheals and 
attended Greene Academy until 1854, when she was employed by 
J W Hathaway, as a clerk in his store.  Here she displayed 
such excellent taste and good judgement in the selection and 
purchase of goods and such business ability, that Mr 
Hathaway soon trusted her to do all the buying in the East, 
and gave her complete control of the store during the last 
few years she remained with him.  In the fifteen years she 
was with him, Mr Hathaway's business was far more prosperous 
than ever before.  Miss Richey has met with the same success 
in her own store, which she opened in 1869. She has a good 
trade in dry goods and millinery, and also makes a specialty 
of fine dress making, receiving the patronage of many 
prominent ladies for miles around Carmicheals.  She is 
always prompt and obliging, conducts her business in a 
business-like way and has met with marked success in all her 
undertakings.

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