Mary E. Albright (b. Krum) (1849-1933) was born in Great Bend, Pennsylvania, and died in Detroit, Michigan. In 1866, in Great Bend, she married Dexter Albright. He was a Civil War veteran, serving in Company B of the 143rd Infantry Regiment of Pennsylvania. After the war he was a farmer. They moved from Pennsylvania to Michigan sometime around 1870, living in Inland, Fife Lake, Luther, and finally, by 1888, in Traverse City. Albright studied Christian Science with Annie M. Knott, a student of Mary Baker Eddy, and became one of the founders and the pastor of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Traverse City in 1892. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1893, and was listed as a practitioner in The Christian Science Journal for almost 40 years, from 1890 to 1929. According to a testimony published in Journal, Albright's husband was also practicing Christian Science in Michigan in the late 1880s. After the couple divorced in 1899, he moved to Kansas, and by 1905 she moved to Binghamton, New York, where she lived with her daughter Ruby E. Albright and worked as a dressmaker and a Christian Science practitioner. Both were members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Binghamton. Around 1922 Albright moved back to Michigan and lived with her daughter Gertrude V. Hodges (b. Albright) for the rest of her life. Hodges joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston on January 6, 1894.

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