Reed A. Albee
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Reed Adalbert Albee (September 8, 1885 – August 2, 1961) was a theater owner.
[edit] Biography
He was born on September 8, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts to Edward Franklin Albee II and Laurette Frances Smith. He had a sister: Ethel Albee (1890-?).
Reed married Louise Holmes Williams, an actress, on June 10, 1914. They divorced on February 26, 1925.[1][2]
She was his second marriage. On March 7, 1925 Reed married Frances Cotter in Jersey City, New Jersey. She worked at Jay Thorpe, Inc. at 24 West Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan. They moved to Larchmont, New York and adopted Edward Franklin Albee III (1928- ). He died in 1961 in Larchmont.[3]
[edit] See also
- 1900 US Census with Albees in Manhattan
[edit] References
- ^ "Married". Time magazine. March 23, 1925. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881488,00.html. Retrieved 2011-04-14. "Reed A. Albee, son of Edward F. Albee, President of B. F. Keith's Theatres Co., to Miss Frances Cotter, buyer for a Manhattan shop. He was divorced by Louise Williams, actress, a month ago."
- ^ New York Times. March 12, 1925. "Reed A. Albee, son of E.F. Albee, head of the Keith-Albee vaudeville circuit, yesterday confirmed the report that he had been married to Miss Frances Cotter last Friday in Jersey City. Miss Cotter, he said, was 26 years old, and had recently been associated with Jay Thorpe, Inc., of 24 West Fifty-seventh Street, as a buyer. Mr. Albee was divorced by Louise Williams, an actress, on February 26, 1925 an interlocutory divorce having been granted her by Supreme Court Justice George H. Taylor Jr. of Mount Vernon in November. 1924. The action was undefended, and Albee was ordered to pay $75 a week alimony."
- ^ "Reed Albee, Officer of Keith Theatres". New York Times. August 3, 1961. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20D12F8395D1B728DDDAA0894D0405B818AF1D3. Retrieved 2011-04-14. "Reed A. Albee, a former official of the BF Keith Corporation ... Mr. Albee was the son of the late Edward F. Albee, a founder of the ..."
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