Albert Pound

Albert Pound (June 2, 1831 - ?) was an American politician and businessman.

Born in Warren County, Pennsylvania, he moved with his family to New York. In 1847, the family again relocated to Rock County, Wisconsin Territory and then back to New York in 1851 where he went to school. He settled in 1855 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin and was in the lumber business. He served as Mayor of Chippewa Falls in 1871 and then served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1873, as a Republican. His brother was Thaddeus C. Pound who was in the lumber business and who served in the United States House of Representatives and in the Wisconsin State Legislature.[1][2]

In 1879, Pound moved to Martinsdale, Montana Territory, and was in the sheep and real estate business. He was also in the mining business. In 1888, he moved to Missoula, Montana Territory, where he was involved with real estate.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ 'The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men: Wisconsin Volume, Volume 1,' American Biographical Publishing Company: 1877, Biographical Sketch of Albert Pound, pg. 256-257
  2. ↑ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1881,' Twenty-Sixth Wisconsin Legislature-1873, pg. 229
  3. ↑ 'A History of Montana,' Helen Fitzgerald Sanders, Lewis Publishing Company: 1913, Biographical Sketch of Albert Pound, pg. 1101