HON. RICHARD M. ALBERY, formerly mayor of Covington, Ohio, and proprietor of the Albery Sawmill Company, has his plant located about one mile south of Covington, on the Dayton turnpike, and is one of Miami County's most enterprising and substantial citizens. He owns the Falls Electric Light Plant and the Covington Electric Light plant, and the forty-four acres of valuable land in Newberry Township, on which he resides. He was born on a farm in Jefferson Township, Franklin County, Ohio, ten miles east of the city of Columbus, on August 26, 1840. His parents were John M. and Sarah (Baldwin) Albery, who were farming people in Franklin County.

Richard M. Albery was reared on the home farm and in early manhood learned the carpenter trade. He also worked in a sawmill and when he went to California, in 1863, it was with the intention of running a sawmill there. This industry he carried on in the far West for two years and has been identified with the sawmill business for forty years. In 1872 he came to Covington and in November of that year started the business which has developed into the Albery Sawmill Company, a very important lumbering enterprise of this section, which has been located at the same point for thirty-seven years. His other interests have been equally well conducted.

Mr. Albery married Miss Hannah Isabelle Fowler, a daughter of Ezekiel Fowler. She was reared near Union City, Indiana. They have had six children: Martin S., Morris W., Richard F., Esther G., Mabel Ruth and Mamie.

He has one surviving child, Richard. R. M. Albery has a handsome brick residence on his place, which he erected in 1878. The name of Albery is well known all through this section, both father and son having been prominently identified with both business and political affairs, and they have done much to add to the good name and prosperity of Covington and vicinity.