Dexter Albright (1844-1927) was born in Windham, Pennsylvania, and died in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a Civil War veteran, serving as a private in Company B of the 143rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. After the war he was a farmer. He married Mary E. Albright (b. Krum) in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, in 1866, and they moved to Michigan sometime around 1870, living in Inland, Fife Lake, Luther, and finally, by 1888, in Traverse City. She was one of the founders of First Church of Christ Scientist, Traverse City, a member of The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Christian Science practitioner. According to a testimony published in The Christian Science Journal, Albright himself practiced Christian Science in Michigan in the late 1880s. Albright moved to Fitzgerald, Georgia, sometime before 1898 and began farming rice. He and his first wife divorced in 1899, and one month later he married Pauline Albright (b. Liebschen) in Fitzgerald. Sometime prior to 1910 they relocated to Ben Hill, Georgia, where he worked as a laborer in a cotton gin, and then to Easton, Maryland, where he worked as a woodworker in a furniture factory. In 1920 Albright moved into the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Leavenworth.

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